Regardless of actively engaged on behalf of the College of Colorado as its new head coach, Deion Sanders confirmed he can be teaching Jackson State within the Celebration Bowl.
“Sure, I’ll. And I’m blissful, Sanders advised JSU in-house reporter Rob Jay when requested whether or not he would coach within the Dec. 17 sport in opposition to MEAC champion North Carolina Central. I’d have it no different manner. I wouldn’t enable anybody to inform me I couldn’t end with my workforce. We’ve bought to complete.”
Jackson State is contemporary off a SWAC championship win, the second convention title in as a few years, and boasts a 12-0 file.
Sanders additionally confirmed that quarterback Shedeur Sanders would play within the Celebration Bowl despite the fact that the sophomore has been tabbed because the starter for Colorado subsequent season.
Additionally through the interview produced by Thee Pregame Present, Sanders mentioned he’s working intently with athletic director Ashley Robinson to search out this system’s subsequent head coach and training workers.
Sanders has been adamant that present Jackson State assistant and former JSU participant T.C. Taylor take the reins transferring ahead, although no candidates have been publicly recognized for the job.
“You both bought to go in-house — to me — with somebody who understands the tradition and what we created,” he mentioned. “Not the tradition of SWAC, however the tradition of what we created right here. Otherwise you bought to go completely reverse as a result of can’t no one duplicate what we’ve carried out.
Folks don’t perceive what we’ve carried out as a result of they’re not on the within. After we go away, that’s when they are going to begin saying, ‘You recognize they did that?’ ‘You recognize he (Sanders) took care of that?’ They received’t know that till we’re lengthy gone.”
