The Coach Prime Experience (2023)

...and why it matters more than you might think.

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I wrote a year-end essay for The Ringer about Year One of the Deion Sanders Experience, and how (or if) he might alter the paradigm of college football. Here’s something I wrote about him earlier in the fall…

Big Fish (1996)

…though as I contemplated his big-picture impact on a sport that hasn’t exactly been a bastion of progress…