OutKick says Deion Sanders as Auburn football HC ‘would be absolutely electric’

OutKick’s David Hookstead believes that Deion Sanders being named the next Auburn football head coach — of course following current head coach Bryan Harsin’s own seemingly imminent dismissal — would be ‘absolutely electric.’

Hookstead highlighted Auburn among several possible ‘Prime Time’ landing spots, a list that also includes Georgia Tech and Arizona State — who both dismissed their head coaches, Geoff Collins and Herm Edwards, over the past two weeks. For Collins, he couldn’t get the Yellow Jackets to even the modest four-win benchmark. Edwards’ assistants wanted him fired so badly that they willingly shared information with opponents in an attempt to sabotage him.

While going over the primary talking points of the Sanders fit with Auburn football, including recruiting battles with Nick Saban and Kirby Smart and battling Alabama in the Iron Bowl, Hookstead described those scenarios as ‘unbelievable.’

He also referenced FOX college football analyst Joel Klatt’s recent prediction that ‘Prime Time’ will make way to the Plains:

"“Can you go into any living room in America and win recruiting battles and to me, that’s Deion Sanders. So that’s why I think Deion’s gonna be the next coach at Auburn.”"

Auburn football or not, Deion Sanders remaining at Jackson State isn’t likely

Deion Sanders is such a hot name in the college coaching carousel that staying at the FCS level just doesn’t seem likely. Making matters worse for Sanders to want to stick around in Mississippi is the mistreatment of the people in Jackson given the governor’s misuse of funds to figure out their clean water crisis. He can’t fix the community’s issues alone despite his best efforts to.

A bigger school with more resources to dole out to its football program will come calling with an offer that Sanders can’t refuse. When it does, we could see Sanders make great leaps with his legacy as a college football coach.