If there’s one thing no one can ever doubt about Deion Sanders, it’s his passion for mentorship. Sanders is constantly lending a listening ear, providing motivational advice and pushing kids to thrive and succeed. He’s relentlessly sponsoring, teaching and promoting youth, something that traces back so long ago that he helped Dez Bryant when he was at Oklahoma State.
And it’s the hope of FCS Jackson State University, which hired Sanders as head coach this week, that his affinity for helping youngsters leads to a boom for the proud program. Jackson State plays in the SWAC, boasts Walter Payton as its most distinguished athletic alum and has catapulted in the past week from a football afterthought to the conversational forefront.