BOULDER, Col. — Deion Sanders does not need to coach football. It's true. He doesn't. He has money in the bank and did long before he signed his current $6-million-per-year contract with the University of Colorado.
If he wanted, he could go back to being a television analyst. He could write another book. He could star in another reality show.
He could do like every other living sports legend and cash in on memorabilia shows every weekend, signing Falcons, Niners, Cowboys, Braves and Yankees jerseys, one of his six Sports Illustrated covers or maybe one of the CDs recorded with MC Hammer back in the day.
But instead, he has chosen to keep plowing on what is perhaps the most difficult and certainly the most nonstop round-the-clock-and-calendar job in collegiate athletics, the head coach of a publicly backed state flagship FBS Power 5 university football program. «People ask me all the time, 'How you doing, man?' and my answer is simple,» the 56-year old College Football Hall of Famer explains. «I'm doing great.