Current:Home > InvestDeion Sanders on who’s the best coach in the Power Five. His answer won’t surprise you. -Momentum Wealth Path
Deion Sanders on who’s the best coach in the Power Five. His answer won’t surprise you.
View
Date:2025-04-18 19:05:55
“60 Minutes” on CBS has been broadcasting interviews with newsmakers for 55 years, including U.S. presidents and A-list actors. It doesn’t usually profile the same person two times in 11 months. But it did Sunday, when it broadcast another segment on Deion Sanders, just 11 months after profiling him last October as head football coach at Jackson State in Mississippi.
The setting this time was the University of Colorado Boulder, where Sanders has coached the football team to a 3-0 start one year after the team finished 1-11.
The show covered his transition there and also posed a question to the Pro Football Hall of Famer:
“Who's the best coach in college football today?” asked “60 Minutes” journalist Jon Wertheim.
“Let me see,” Sanders replied. “Let me see a mirror so I can look at it.”
“You feel that?” Wertheim said.
“What, you think I'm gonna sit up here and tell you somebody else?” Sanders replied. “You think, you think that's the way I operate? That somebody else got that on me?”
Sanders then pivoted and mentioned Alabama head coach Nick Saban, his costar on Aflac insurance commercials and the winner of seven national championships, the most in college football history.
“I love and I adore and I respect and every time I do a commercial with coach Saban,” Sanders said. “It's a gift. Just sitting in his presence and hearing him and - and throwing something else out there so I can hear his viewpoint on it. Because he's forgotten more things than I may ever accomplish. So I'm a student looking up to this wonderful teacher saying, 'Just - just - just throw me a crumb of what you know.'"
COLLEGE FOOTBALL GRADES: Colorado State coach a clown all around
Sanders, 56, told “60 Minutes” last year that he was “not one bit” interested in coaching in the NFL one day. In Sunday's new episode, he elaborated on what made him interested in moving from Jackson State to Colorado last December despite the team’s lack of success over the past 20 years.
“God wouldn't relocate me to something that was successful,” he said. “That don't make sense, do it? He had to find the most disappointing and the most difficult task. And this is what it was. And this is what it is. And I love that.”
He also talked about his roster-building process, which includes bringing in 68 scholarship newcomers out of a roster limit of 85 scholarships. His fame and history set him off from competitors.
"My kids that play for me, they didn't choose a university," he said. "They chose me. That's a difference."
Follow reporter Brent Schrotenboer @Schrotenboer. Email: bschrotenb@usatoday.com
veryGood! (6894)
Related
- North Carolina trustees approve Bill Belichick’s deal ahead of introductory news conference
- The 77 Best Memorial Day 2024 Fashion Deals: J.Crew, Banana Republic, Old Navy, Michael Kors, Gap & More
- Millie Bobby Brown Marries Jake Bongiovi in Private Ceremony
- Christian Nodal announces split from girlfriend Cazzu: 'I am deeply grateful'
- The Louvre will be renovated and the 'Mona Lisa' will have her own room
- Why Kate Middleton’s New Portrait Has the Internet Divided
- Louisiana legislature approves bill to classify abortion pills as controlled substances
- Karen Read Murder Trial: Why Boston Woman Says She Was Framed for Hitting Boyfriend With Car
- Current, future North Carolina governor’s challenge of power
- Louisiana governor signs bill making two abortion drugs controlled dangerous substances
Ranking
- Trump issues order to ban transgender troops from serving openly in the military
- MLB Misery Index: New York Mets have another big-money mess as Edwin Díaz struggles
- Prosecutors in Harvey Weinstein’s New York case cry foul over defense lawyer’s comments
- Taiwan scrambles jets, puts forces on alert as China calls new war games powerful punishment for the island
- Trump invites nearly all federal workers to quit now, get paid through September
- Memorial Day 2024: Score food deals at Hooters, Krispy Kreme, Smoothie King and more
- France's Macron flies to New Caledonia in bid to quell remote Pacific territory's unprecedented insurrection
- Rodeo Star Spencer Wright's 3-Year-Old Son Wakes Up After Toy Tractor Accident
Recommendation
Tom Holland's New Venture Revealed
Morgan Spurlock, 'Super Size Me' director and documentarian, dead at 53: Reports
See memorials in Uvalde and across Texas that honor victims of Robb Elementary shooting
U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak sets July 4 election date as his Conservative party faces cratering support
DoorDash steps up driver ID checks after traffic safety complaints
American ex-fighter pilot accused of illegally training Chinese aviators can be extradited to U.S., Australian judge says
Travis Kelce Breaks Silence on Harrison Butker’s Controversial Commencement Speech
MLB Misery Index: New York Mets have another big-money mess as Edwin Díaz struggles