Jackson Jambalaya

BS. He could have stayed here forty years. Time will tell if his persona works in big time football. I wish him well and glad he brought some fun to JSU football for a short while.

Good luck, Coach Prime! I’ll be rooting for you wherever you go!

Congrats Coach Prime! You are so deserving of everything God his planned for your life as you continue to follow His Will ! Know how much you are loved and I only wish I could have met you in person to hug your neck and Thank You for your giving 120% to every path you crossed. God Speed!. I Love You! PS your sons are very lucky!

All y’all thinking coach prime is that good of coach is laughable. All he did was bring in a bunch of coaches with d-1 experience into the swac. Remember what jay hopson did at Alcorn state , he was fired from every d-1 program he coached at before that. Went to usm and was exposed. The same will happen with “prime” when he goes to Colorado.

Tell the sports reporters in Colorado not to call him "Deion" or he will walk out of the interview.

10:56 He also brought some players of the caliber the SWAC hasn't seen in about 30 years. Colorado and some other programs don't think it's laughable. True, winning in one place does not guarantee winning in another, but that can happen to anybody. Right Jimbo? In fact there are enough duds being paid millions who can't attract the talent like Deion so that he must be better than a long shot. My congrats to Colorado. They might hit the jackpot. Of course they might not. That's life.

Good. Now you can stop posting about JSU for clicks and comments.

No one cares about the sportsball

Re. "What God has planned.."
It's football, silly...a game.

The pressure on Mike Norvell just went up about a quarter of a turn. Middle of the pack success in Boulder after three or four years will probably be enough for the Florida State folks.

I’m tired of hearing about this guy and football in general. I see the stories about this fellow, who calls himself by some nickname that I don’t understand or care to understand, and people fawning over him for some reason. What’s the big deal? If it weren’t for our shallow culture worshipping athletes this guy would be unknown. It’s just football, and positive talk by a celebrity coach isn’t going to make Jackson thugs quit being thugs.

11:51- you a NARP? yeah, call him coach, coach Prime or coach Sanders. It’s fairly simple. I still call all my coaches by “coach.”
In a professional setting - news interview about someone’s job - you use the appropriate title…not the bar room, fish camp vernacular. Do you call your doctor by his/her first name at your doctor’s appt? I can only imagine if I used a judges first name in court….

@9:54 PM
Deion Sanders doesn't read this blog

Kind of surprised by this. Does he need the money?

Colorado is another planet compared to Jackson, MS, and the Sanders family is going to have some culture shock. Lots of white, moneyed kids and their families will decide if he's a good fit or not.

I heard Jackson countered the CU offer, but it didn't include running water..

For an extra 2 or 3 million a year it ain’t rocket science. Best wishes Coach Deion Sanders AKA PRIME TIME. May the good Lord be with you and your family.

Never was a big fan of him in the NFL. Always thought of him as a good player who loved to showboat and hated to get hit. With that said he was the best thing to happen to JSU in many years. Best of luck coach!

Colorado will be a culture shock but the good news is Native Americans are the object of racism there, not African Americans.
I hate to see him leave as he has been a boon to Mississippi as well as JSU and I thank him for his contributions at JSU. I hope others can build on the success of this man and this team.
I don't suppose our Governor ( like Governors of other States whose universities are in a bowl game attended JSU's?). I do know he missed the irony of belonging to a party that sees nothing wrong with funding athletic buildings not as long as they aren't for a successful program at JSU that can bring in revenues to the State unlike a volleyball facility...even if it breaks a few laws.

Cheerful entertaining personality will be missed locally and in the SWAC.

But, Prime, do you really know what a hellish situation you are entering in Colorado? The petty, jealous faculty are way, way too Woke even for you. The only way that the football program is tolerated is because they hire Black coaches, of which you are there third in a row. The faculty are so jealous of your compensation that they will work very hard for you to not succeed. In their petty minds you are what is wrong with university life.

I really wish you every success but just know that all the forces of control are against you.

Can’t say I blame him. Will his quarterback son go with him?

Calling one's self "Prime" is totally weird and egotistical. Just, low class.

But going out of your way to dress down a reporter on it? Even lower class.

As Saban, the GOAT, said, "It's not that important." It's an informal setting, not a state dinner or granting of knighthood. You play a stupid kid's game, son.

Total egomaniac and hypocrite.

First game, TCU. Good luck, Deion.

Colorado? Lol. He literally took the first job that came at him. So much for being all about the HBCU.

7:17 am No one said he does or doesn’t read. I choose to believe he prays about all decisions in his life before making his choices. IMO only. I am sure there are many factors and not just one that God does use to lead him. You say it’s football but I disagree
. Ask any coach who loves the game and the Lord what his focus is about. I Believe He Loves the JSU the students he works with. Also I pray for the safety of all these students in a high crime area. A job here is not worth the chance of losing a child when God has other plans in a safer, low crime area. At the end of the day, most of us wish our neighbors well in our reading of the scripture.

Thanks to Coach for spending time in Mississippi and bringing positive things to JSU, Jackson, and Mississippi.
You will be missed. We wish you continued success.

It is just a kids game. I feel sorry for those people who will spend hours watching some grown men playing a kids game.

Y'all don't see what is really happening here. The power structure came in and bought him out so he wouldn't created a program that didn't play to the powers that be. Getting that recruit from Florida was just a rumbling of what was to come. He was going to shake it all up. Can't have that threatened so lets give him an incredible job that pays ten times or more what he makes now.

To those who post about the upcoming culture shock he and his family are about to experience. The man and his family travel across the USA and outside the country as well. He has an estimated net worth of $50M+, he is 55 years old and you expect culture shock? Really? I think the shock will be the people of Colorado, the University and college football in general. Buckle up this ride will be frightening or fun.

@10:20 AM / Kingfish
Exactly! Agree on those comments.
Thus his comment "You either get elevated or terminated"
Prime is a good motivating speaker.
Anyone seen the video in early November stating to the players " Work will elevate you" This chatter of his conversation to leave JSU did not just start.
Don't know him personally but been told he is a great man, great speaker, but not he best coach. Surrounded at JSU by a great coaching staff.
Honestly, I'm proud of JSU and what has occurred for the team and campus.
Let's wish him well.
There will be 3 parcels most likely for sale in Madison County soon.
Owner listed at TwentyOneLLC. Deed filed December 2020.
It's just change.

WOW KF Somebody on this blog finally gets it. A threat has been eliminated. Traditional success within certain limits (i.e. SWAC championships) is just fine, but this fellow was actually changing the landscape and that would soon become a serious problem. Like it or not football is the image of success or failure in the South and the light of the nation was shining on JSU and bad ole Jackson Miss. Was it just a shooting star or a gigantic meteor heading this way, we'll never know but the smart people and the "powers that be" took notice....

Exactly. He's been all over the country and probably the world. I doubt much shocks him.

@11:22
Correct. Would agree nothing surprises him.

Will he take Chowke with him?

Culture Shock? If he experienced any culture shock it was from the conditions of Jackson MS and the lack of facilities and money at JSU. Colorado has nothing that he has not experienced already being a millionaire himself and travelling all over the world. Culture shock? Get real.

@7:16 - If I have more than one appointment with any doctor, the answer to your question is "yes". Judges are another matter.

Kingfish: What mythical 'power structure' are you talking about? You actually believe some power structure caused Colorado to hire the man? I can't decide whether you have bought into a conspiracy theory or created one.

If you believe there are that many high-school super-stars who are enamored of a man who, thirty years ago, danced in the endzone, you're nuts. His early antics turned OFF more fans than it turned ON.

Next question: who does Jackson State hire to replace him?

Terrell Owens? Michael Irvin? Emmit Smith?

1:30 In case you missed it, Nick Saban danced better than Deion in the living room of a high school recruit. It wasn't an end zone dance but he was pretty slick. Look it up. But maybe Saban turns you off too.

A home in Madison for $500,000 will cost $1.5+M in Boulder. Its small downtown area is neck deep in homeless pests, traffic is dense and dangerous 24/7, so not all is glorious in Colorado foothills.

A rare few live West of town and come and go by helicopter, perhaps Sanders will.

I'd much rather read about the new Hinds County judges and who will replace DHG in her house seat.

Prime is a big fish in a little pond at JSU. I'm interested in seeing how he adapts to Colorado. Foot in mouth in the SWAC is called "being real". That's not what it's called on the D1 level.

Wait a year or two for the NCAA to look at the CU transfers and recruits. They won't touch a HBCU with a ten foot pole, but PAC 12 is different. Already, CU Chancellor DiStefano revealed Saturday that the school is adjusting its policy on credit hours with a "pilot program."

DeWynn is only there for 3 or 4 years, max, sink or swim. CU knows that very, very well. The portal insures Hurricane Coaches who come for a short amount of time and then leave. Either causing tremendous damage or creating opportunity for the greedsters. Either way, they make money. The school gets a shot, either way.

And with bling bling showboater Deion Luwynn, it's about the Benjamins. He smelled dollars on the West wind. He did attend "Free Shoes U" in college.

How many expert ex football players can parachute into a dangerous, third world violent Jackson, quickly achieve genuine success and morph that into a national, multi million dollar opportunity in an upscale, beautiful, foothills College town?

Deion used JSU, and they are thanking for doing so. Just LOL. Enjoy the fast trip back to irrelevance.

Yep Neon Deion is in for culture shock. Things in Colorado aren't like they are in Mississippi.

He just proved he can be bought because he jumped at the 1st offer.

Take off the tinfoil hat, KF.
You are embarrassing yourself.
Would expect stupidity like that on wlbt's fb page but not here.

@6:34 Yes, he was just that desperate to get out of Jackson. Can't blame him one bit.

Already, CU Chancellor DiStefano revealed Saturday that the school is adjusting its policy on credit hours with a "pilot program."

I've not seen that, 5:10, but will search for the story.

In the video provided by Kingfish, I notice Coach Sanders was introduced to the team as 'Coach Prime', no mention being made of the man's name.

Remember - He walked out of an event when he was addressed by a reporter as Deion. Didn't he remark, "You don't address Coach Saban as 'Nick'".

Wait, KF is serious about the Mississippi sports mafia removing a threat?

I thought he was trolling us/joking?

Occam's razer. More money + less crime + safe water = He gone

I doubt the IHL Illuminati had much need to interfere here, lol.

Oh please, JSU used Sanders as much as he used them. Do you think they could have pulled a high-ranking prospect like Travis Hunter without a celebrity coach like Prime? Would ESPN have ever looked at JSU and held Game Day here without him? It was at best, a symbiotic relationship. But arguably he brought way more to the table then they ever could.

The speed at which Coach Prime made this move (knowing they have been in negotiations for weeks) as well as some of his comments in Colorado gives me a feeling that JSU failed to deliver for him on "something", which pissed him off enough to make moves to be anywhere but here and not look back.

who? me?

The only way he would stay long term at JSU would be if he was mediocre and had nowhere upward to go. He accomplished what he needed and it was time to go. He had reached the ceiling at JSU, so why stay? When Kiffen knows he has reached the ceiling at Ole Miss, he will go if a better job is offered. Nothing agaisnst Ole Miss but that's common sense. Hence Deions gone, so what?

I agree with you 2:37 but KF at 10:20 implied this was all some Grassy Knoll-level hit job to remove PrimeTime, so he must know something we don't...because he did not use sarcasm /s/

Can somebody clear up the matter of Sanders' son?

Some are claiming he's the new Colorado QB who can transfer in accordance with school rules. Others say his credits won't transfer. Still others speculate that the university will shit-can its regulations to accommodate the Sanders family.

6:20 College & universities shit-can rules for professor's & admin's kids all the time.