Deion Sanders believes he has been proving doubters wrong before Colorado
Do you believe? After three weeks, you’d better based on what Deion Sanders has done to start his tenure in Boulder.
Still, when it comes to naysayers, Coach Prime says it’s not anything new when it comes to his career as a coach. As he told Taylor Rooks in a sit-down interview with Bleacher Report, people have been doubting him at every stop and that he has proved them wrong every time considering how simple his equation is.
“You know what? It’s been longer (than three weeks). It’s been longer,” said Sanders. “Actually, it’s been a few years because what we accomplished in high school was unprecedented, winning three state titles. What we accomplished even with youth football? We won, won, won all over the country. And then we go to Jackson (State) and simulate the same thing.”
“Now that we’re here? People weren’t thinking we could duplicate what we did in Jackson because they felt like Jackson wasn’t at the level that they thought it would, that it would grant their acclaim and affirmations. But football is football, people are people, young men are young men. So it’s the same formula that we’ve been using for quite some time.”
At Trinity Christian School in Cedar Hill, Texas, Sanders was offensive coordinator and worked alongside his son in QB Shedeur Sanders. By the time they were done, the program won a trio of championships and gone a combined 42-3 overall.
After that, he went to Jackson State where this hype train truly started to move on the tracks. Sanders proved that with the talent he was able to bring to that HBCU program in the SWAC but also with the team’s success on the field as they went 27-6 in his three seasons. That included a 23-3 mark over 2021 and 2022.
That all led to what Sanders is doing today with the Buffaloes yet, still, no one has been able to deny him. He has just kept on winning, and winning in his way, en route to becoming one of the biggest stories in the sport and across the nation.
Sanders explains why being humble does not drive him
There’s no question that Deion Sanders has been doing things his way during his coaching journey, bringing the same confidence and swagger he did from his playing days to the coaching realm.
Sanders is extremely quotable and one of his best from his time as a player was, “They don’t pay nobody to be humble”. Bleacher Report’s Taylor Brooks revisited that quote in an interview with Sanders and asked him why being humble is not necessarily a thing that propels him.
“When I said that, that was because I was a grown dog out there on that field,” Sanders said. “Like, I’m not gon’ be humble about what I’ve got and the gifts that I have. I ain’t ever seen nobody open a present on Christmas and say, ‘Aw that was so sweet.’ No, ‘You see what I got? Yeah!’”
“I got a gift that I’ve opened and I’m thankful and proud of it. You don’t think I’m gon’ shout and rejoice and do my thing because of this God has given me? No. That’s what I meant by that,” Sanders said. “I’ve got a tremendous gift and I know it and I’ve perfected it by hard work, focus, and dedication.”
His personality and ability to attract the spotlight does not sit well with everyone as he’s changing the norm of what a collegiate head football coach is right in front of our eyes. Still, ‘Coach Prime’ doesn’t plan on cutting back on his confidence any time soon despite how it may make others feel.
“There lies the quote, ‘Don’t allow my confidence to offend your insecurity’. There lies the quote. That’s where that quote derived from,” Sanders said. “I ain’t got nothing to do with whatever you’re going through because I’m gon’ be me. And I’m mandated to be me. I’m pleasing God, not man.”
“Now, if I’m pleasing God and God is happy and you tripping? That’s a problem with you. That ain’t me. Because all I want is to hear God say, ‘Well done my faithful servant!’. I’ve heard him say that a multiplicity of times. So, you got a problem? That ain’t on me. That’s on you.”