Deion Sanders is not your average college football coach.
But after all, he was not an ordinary college athlete at Florida State nor was he a second-rate cornerback in the NFL. Sanders’s prowess was transcendent. The eight-time Pro Bowler exemplified dominance, spunk and embraced a vantage point that demanded elite-level play.
But those traits did not come by coincidence for the Pro Football Hall of Famer. His “old-school” football philosophy, one that stems back to his youth football coach in the late Dave Capel, is a pivotal reason why he has not only become a successful coach at Jackson State but a towering figure for hope and a beacon for change in Jackson, Miss., a city filled with a dense African American population underscored by areas of ravaged infrastructure, poverty, crime and, most recently, a prolonged water crisis.
