Once upon a time, Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones spent some huge cash to carry Deion Sanders to Dallas. Would Jones attempt to do it with the most popular coach in all of sports activities?

Jones wasn’t requested that particular query throughout a Sunday post-game dialogue with reporters. But it’s clear that Jerry believes in Deion.

“Let me tell you something,” Jones stated of Deion. “He’s a hell of a coach. He’s a hell of a coach.”

Can Jerry see Deion teaching within the NFL?

“He influences people and of course that’s part of it in the NFL,” Jerry stated. “But I don’t want to go there because you know where that starts going every which way. But [Deion] can influence and cause with his stature, his substance, what he is, as well as his own personality, being able to get inside and work with you on an individual basis. I’m a product of that with him.”

Beyond influencing gamers, Deion delivers. Saturday evening’s late-starting (and really late-finishing) Colorado State-Colorado sport gave ESPN its fifth greatest faculty soccer ranking EVER, with a mean of 9.3 million viewers. In the age of widespread twine reducing, that’s beautiful. Also, Colorado has completely sold out all of its house video games for the primary time ever, through TheAthletic.com.

The influence goes past soccer video games. Via Austin Karp of Sports Business Journal, the season premiere of 60 Minutes, that includes a profile of Deion, drew the largest viewers for the present since January 2021, with 11.8 million viewers.

Yes, it helps that the present had an enormous lead-in viewers from Jets-Cowboys (25.8 million). Still, many caught round, presumably for extra Deion.

The sports activities world can’t get sufficient of Deion. And that might be sufficient to get some proprietor on the market to change into prepared to attempt to put collectively a monetary supply that can make Deion, who advised Rich Eisen final week that he doesn’t think he can motivate rich NFL players, prepared to not less than give it a attempt.