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There’s this thing about kickstands, they flip up as easily as they do down.
They’re inherently temporary, a steady support when needed and easily retracted when escaping.
“You know what a kickstand is? That means I’m resting,” Colorado coach Deion Sanders said earlier this week. “We ain’t going nowhere. We’re about to get comfortable.”
To this I say: who cares where Sanders coaches football in 2025? At Colorado, a college football blue blood or with the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys.
We should only care that he does more.
More Deion, more Prime. More of that unique brand and bravado to impact others outside his orbit of here and now. This is going to sound absurd, but I don’t think Deion fully comprehends the power of Prime away from the field.
Deion is the ultimate Man in the Arena. And now it’s time, in the words of Teddy Roosevelt, to dare greatly.
Colorado coach Deon Sanders talks to line judge Bret Bascule in the second quarter of his team’s against TCU at Amon G. Carter Stadium.
He’s too far into this coaching thing now. It has transcended far beyond blocking and tackling.
Two years ago, when Deion was entertaining the idea of leaving what he quickly built at Championship Subdivision school Jackson State for an Bowl Subdivision job, I said Auburn would be foolish to not hire him. He grew up in the south, was a prep legend at North Fort Myers High School in Florida and an All-American at Florida State.
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If anyone knew the south and how to recruit the talent-rich footprint, and at the very least stress Alabama and then-coach Nick Saban, it’s was Deion. More than that, he could be a change agent on the biggest stage in college football: the mighty SEC.
That’s…
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Publish date : 2024-11-21 17:03:00
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