Now let's hear from Js.

Use new head football coach PrimeTime.

Our friend Dion Sanders, who was interviewed on our behalf.

I love this by his sons and members of the Tigers football team, keeping it in the family.

A lot of star shot, teary eyed because the guys and presented me with the game ball one of the best moments I've ever had in my professional sports career.

Emotionally, what was the reason you wanna be the head coach at Jackson State and what really just brought you?

You guys know what, coach?

You guys on the same before you knew it was coming.

What brought you God spoke in my spirit in, uh, challenged me to come here and provoke change.

Not just the Jackson State, but for all hbc user level, the dirt playing field that people want to know how far we're gonna take it, the way I want you to bridge way going across it.

Gonna go back across it.

We're gonna go back, cross it again.

When have we ever have done anything there ain't never have done nothing.

So we're gonna do this thing like it has never been done before.

But there's an expectation of, you know, I have expectations.

I think what people that understand is not only for several members of the coaching staff We come from the pros, man.

So I level and I thought process and our understanding is here and what we've seen, what we felt in what we've dealt with Super Bowls and all that in the playoff games man way have experienced and we know how they look.

How would you have a coast to younger version of you, your prime time to know.

How would you call me?

Pretty much.

Well, you're tough.

You you are deciding to keep me on my knees and keep praying because you you're challenging your very challenging You always have questions.

Instead of just doing what we tell you, you always have questions.

Hey, on the other half of he gets what I say later, but he internalized he tries incorporated, but he will see the proof thereof of it later.

But both you guys are phenomenal players, and I think you're gonna you're gonna play on Sundays one day.

So how does it feel to be able to coach is now at the next level?

Well, it feels good, but I hadn't been able to coach you guys in the college game.

You, both of you guys, are ineligible to play because he played last year's acolyte.

You still consider the high school kid, even though you graduated from high school, so you're not eligible to play to September 25th.

As of right now, my account is correct.

I think we're at 190 two days, some 192 days until we get that September 5th.

So I'm kind of those days down.

Well, walk towards the end zone, a conversation there, that way, get that ends on their power and come back the other way.

It's time to get down.

So since we got players that can play and you know the players already here, what are you looking to get out of this season?

This spring season?

You guys gotta be excited.

You guys got to be excited to understand that what we did this past Sunday and we did that we'd probably four or five guys.

That is gonna have to fight for a starting job in the fall on both sides of the ball.

And that equates to a better special teams as well.

Wear very dominant in all three phases of the game, and I was particularly happy about that.

How do you think be used?

We'll get big players coming out of high school, everything.

Every phase of it.

We got to improve so that we could attract those type of kids way.

Don't give them any reason not to.

We wanna give them every reason to.

But I don't want a child just coming here because the uniforms looks good or he think he's gonna be on TV every week.

I want him to come here because he thinks we could develop him on and take him to the next level, that this is an address as well that can lead to the NFL.

That's why I wanted to come.

What message do you have for Stephen A.

Smith?

Steven is my dog.

Stephen is my man, even though sometimes we may disagree, but it's disagreeing out of love.

I really do think Stephen A is a national treasure that we had yet recognized what all he brings to the table and have valuable.

He is to our community into our people.

Alright.

Dion already getting his first win.

Look at that.

53 to nothing over Edward Waters.

And next up that Mississippi Valley State Alm, a mater of the Hall of Famer Jerry Rice and Stephen A.

Some kind words there.

You heard Prime calling you a national treasure?

Um, that's not appreciated as much as he should be, especially by your community.

I also want to mention guys.

I love the way they did that interview.

Shiloh shudder and just seeing him interact with his sons.

How much fun is that?

That he gets the opportunity not only to be at an HBCU, help his own community, but also be with his family?

So, Steven, I'll ask you this.

What would be success for Dion at Jackson State?

Well, he's gotta be, you know, you gotta win football games when division titles won the conference championship, last won the division title, I think in 2013 and will last won a conference championship in, like 2000 and seven, if I remember correctly.

Um, but, uh, you know, forgive me for diverting away a little bit.

I didn't know that he had said that about me and really humbled and touched by what he had to say.

Dion and I have been friends for years and he's my brother.

I love him daily, and I have so much respect for him, uh, knowing what he stands for, knowing what he's about.

We share a lot of, you know, private and intimate conversations with one another throughout the years, and I know how passionate he is about coaching.

But I also know how passionate he is about being the leader of young men, and that's what being a part of an HBCU program is all about.

And he alluded to it earlier in the interview with his son's.

Obviously they look like him, you know, the they can ball, and you could see how much of a proud Papa he is.

And I love the just the imagery of them talking to him and interviewing him because, just like he has strived to influence them.

Obviously all their lives, as as as their daddy, uh, this is what he wants to do, obviously, to a lesser degree, to some degree, a lesser degree, uh, two young men, young African American men throughout this throughout this nation.

This is a man that wants to make a difference, and he knows that he had.

He has to utilize football to some degree in order to pull that off.

So when you talk about him coaching this football team and striving them for it to be successful, Max, he understands what is going to lead to the more successful.

He is a Jackson state.

The more shines a light on the program as the light is shined on a program.

Ultimately, he knows he could be the conduit to it.

Shining a light on HBC use.

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