𝙎𝙊𝙍𝙍𝙔: 𝙉𝙊 𝘾𝙊𝙇𝙊𝙍𝘼𝘿𝙊/𝙉𝙀𝘽𝙍𝘼𝙎𝙆𝘼 𝙂𝘼𝙈𝙀 𝙍𝙀𝘾𝘼𝙋 𝙃𝙀𝙍𝙀

Coach Prime

To recap the game, cite stats or share commentary would be, as anyone might say, redundant.

Let's leave the who, when and where to ESPN, Sports Center, even other bloggers and focus our discussion on the why and how.

For certain, Deion Sanders, as a player, was a unique talent, the best cornerback and kick returner to ever play what some might call in Brownsville, American football.

Of course, the old cliche', reinforced by Michael Jordan and others, is that great players seldom make good coaches, followed by "things came too easily for them."

Typically, it's undersized linebackers like Lou Holtz who turn into wonderful coaches because, for one thing, they've had to supplement their physical tools with football IQ, technique and trickery to survive.

Yet, Neon Deion, in his Prime, could simply outrun, outzig and outzag his opponents, but, he added another component as he could also outthink them.

It's so obvious that Sanders, in his forty-odd years connected to football, paid ultra-close attention to how a team is built, how a coaching staff is hired, how good players are recruited and how all of the above are motivated.

Even for the Knute Rockne's and "Bear" Bryant's, building a good team was a long, tedious process.  

No one has ever taken something resembling a 1-11 team and turned it around this rapidly.

Next year or in subsequent years, someone else will try to duplicate what Sanders has done so quickly at Colorado and likely fail in the process.

Deion is, as we say in 2023, a one-off.

There is only one Coach Prime.