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Why the hype about Sanders?

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GojiraCane said:
I would have loved to see Deion stay at Jackson for ten to twenty more years and become the Bobby Bowden or Frank Beamer of the program. Someone who not only built it up into a powerhouse, but eventually got it to the point where they entered Division 1 football and were competitive, if not highly competitive. That would have been a really cool legacy.
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Agree, how long was Eddie Robinson at Grambling? He is a CFB legend.
 
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1988 FSU was ranked number one preseason. They did a rap song featuring "prime". They opened against the U. FINAL score Miami 31 Deion's team 0 (ZERO, ZIP, Nothing as Miami moved down the field with a new QB (Steve Walsh) at will despite "prime".

We turned the Nole rap into the FSU Blues!

You had to be there to see us embarrass number one and preseason all-american sanders. Part of our 58 game home win streak!
 
It’s FAMU and Coach Simmons’s time now! Jackson State was our only SWAC loss the last two years. Never should’ve put us in the same division in the first place, imo. Those would’ve been fire 🔥 SWAC championship games, the last two years.
 
AtlAtty said:
Is it too much to request that we refer to him as Sanders, or Coach Sanders or even Mr. Sanders as opposed to Deion or the god-awful Prime?
This is after all a Miami Hurricanes message board and the last thing we should have is adulation of a Seminole. Respect I can understand. Even I consider Sanders a top 5 CB all-time, and have great respect for what he did on the football field. But he is and will forever be the enemy.

When I did some legal work for a family member of Warwick Dunn, I called him Mr. Dunn and told him I respected his work on and off the field, but as a Hurricane I could never cheer for him as a player. And Dunn is, IMO, 100x the human being that Sanders is.
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While I agree with you, it would be extremely awkward to call Warrick Dunn Deion or Prime
 
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Memnon said:
I hate to interject my very wrong opinion on this topic, but mentioning tackling when it comes to Corners, especially NFL Corners is an interesting metric by which to measure the position...

Unless we’re talking about CB’s from the **** “Night-Train” Lane or Mel Blount era, I don’t think people (if they’re being honest) can even think of a “good” tackling Corner in the modern era.

When people talk about, Champ Bailey, Darrelle Revis, Charles Woodson, Richard Sherman, Pat Peterson from that era, or even the current top CB’s right now like Darius Slay, Sauce Gardener, Pat Surtain II, Jaire Alexander, Jaycee Horn, James Bradberry etc, tackling hardly if ever comes up in the discussion.
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Rod Woodson, prior to moving to safety? IIRC he was a solid tackler.
 
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