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Two Years in, Deion Sanders’s Jackson State Vision Is Alive as Ever

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Coach Prime opens up on his pitch to recruits (and their mothers), how he’d react to a Power 5 offer and more.

A few seconds remained on the clock. Jackson State was putting the finishing touches on a 66–24 defeat of Grambling State, a typical score for a team that, openly and unabashedly, sets its sights not on merely winning games but on dominating. Devonta Davis, a Jackson State linebacker, whipped a wad of tape off his fingers and fired it toward a garbage can behind the JSU bench.

Davis might be a fine football player, able to tackle opponents from all manner of angles.