Legendary Alabama football coach Nick Saban made his opinion known when he endorsed Deion Sanders for the vacant head coaching position with the Dallas Cowboys. Saban, a seven-time national championship coach at Alabama, became good friends with Coach Prime over the last few years, and the two have appeared in a series of insurance commercials together.
Nick Saban Endorses Coach Prime for the Dallas Cowboys’ Head Coaching Position
The Cowboys have interviewed four coaches to replace the deposed Mike McCarthy. They interviewed Kellen Moore, Brian Schottenheimer, Robert Saleh, and Leslie Frazier. Saban believes Sanders deserves a shot at the brass ring and should get a formal interview.
“Me and Deion … I want him to get that job,” Saban said to “The Pivot podcast.”
“I have a tremendous amount of respect for Deion Sanders. First, he’s a great person, and he’s done a great job of marketing the program to create a lot of national interest.”
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Saban went one step further.
“He’s always been successful, whether it was at Jackson State, high school, or now in Colorado,” Saban said. “His teams have always been well-coached.”
Sanders has turned around a Colorado program, which went 1-11 a season before he arrived, to a 9-3 regular season in 2024 and an appearance in a postseason bowl game. Two of his players, quarterback Shedeur Sanders and wide receiver/cornerback Travis Hunter, figure to be two of the top five picks in this spring’s 2025 NFL Draft.
Before he arrived in Boulder, Colo., Sanders turned around the program at Jackson State University in Jackson, Miss. He won two SWAC conference titles and was a two-time Coach of the Year for the SWAC.
After his first season at Colorado, Sanders was named the Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year in 2023.
When a coach like Saban vouches for you, it comes with added significance. Additionally, no one knows better than Saban about what it is like to coach in college and then jump to the NFL. Hopefully, if Sanders gets the Dallas job, he will have more success there than Saban had in Miami with the Dolphins.
Sanders has a well-documented, close relationship with owner Jerry Jones, a bond he acknowledged by saying, “I love Jerry and believe in Jerry,” following reports that he had discussed the Cowboys’ head coaching job.
Sanders played five seasons with the Cowboys (1995-99), winning Super Bowl 30 in his first year with the team. During his tenure, he earned four Pro Bowl selections and three first-team All-Pro honors with the franchise. He had a Hall of Fame career that included an NFL Defensive Player of the Year award, eight All-Pro selections, eight Pro Bowl nods, and a spot on the NFL 100th Anniversary All-Time Team and NFL 1990s All-Decade Team.
