Calling Deion Sanders' rise in the coaching world "meteoric" might be underselling Coach Prime's journey from ... Sanders inherited a Jackson State program that posted a 4-8 record in the year ...

And that followed perhaps the poster child for NFL stars going to HBCUs in Deion Sanders, who coached at Jackson State from 2020-22. Sanders, known as "Coach Prime," quickly improved from 4-3 in ...

The Coach Prime era in college football officially kicked off when Jackson State athletic director Ashley Robinson brought the two-way legend to Mississippi in 2020 to begin a new era at the school.