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[Bayless] Deion Sanders is truly legendary.

[Coach Prime] The world knew me as Prime Time.

[host] It is Prime Time, Deion Sanders.

[Coach Prime] But for everything I'd done, for everything I'd become,

I felt like there was something more, something bigger than myself.

[Strahan] Deion Sanders, the football Hall of Famer, World Series competitor,

and two time Super Bowl champion, taking over as head coach

at the historically black university.

[Coach Prime] So, I stepped out on faith

and made the decision that would change my life.

Believe.

[Coach Prime] But it just wasn't about football. I wanted to change lives.

[reporter] Coach Sanders says it's about raising

these young men to be pillars in the community.

[Coach Prime] I wanted to change the way things work.

[announcer] Across the five yard line, touchdown Jackson State.

[coach] Just too easy.

[Coach Prime] So we came to Mississippi and shook things up.

[announcer] Isaiah Bolden on the return, into the end zone!

- Touchdown Jackson State! - [crowd cheering]

[Coach Prime] And laid the foundation for what we're destined to be.

[reporter] Tigers won the SWAC championship after a near perfect season.

[Coach Prime] Now that all eyes are on us, we're taking it to the next level.

Deon Sanders has a potential and ability now to

take up the landscape of college football.

To be a legend is one thing,

but to constantly raise the bar and change the narrative

of conversation as to why you're a legend is another.

[Coach Prime] And anytime you do that, you gonna ruffle some feathers.

Jackson State paid a guy a million dollars last year that

was a really good division one player to come to the school.

It was in the paper and they bragged about it.

Man, stop this Coach Saban.

It is insulting to that kid, Travis Hunter. It's insulting to his family.

I thought Saban and Coach Prime were boys.

[Coach Prime] That's alright. It means it's working.

I guess they're not gonna do an Aflac commercial together next year. Right?

[Coach Prime] It's all a part of the plan.

Coach Saban is a good man. A lot of people took the whole incident and ran with it,

blew it out and attacked him.

And I knew what he was trying to say, what he was trying to accomplish.

And you can't judge a man by the thought process of a moment.

He's established himself to be a monument.

So we're not gonna let a moment dictate how I how feel about it man.

Coach Saban is a good dude.

- How you doing everybody? - [man] I'm doing good.

What's going on sweetheart? How art thou?

- My man, what's going on? - [Coach Saban] How's everything?

[Coach Prime] They done drug us way out to California.

Coach, I just want you to know where I'm coming from man.

I love you. You my guy. You gonna always be my guy. Just know that.

- Well, I appreciate you saying… - No straight up.

You know when I said what I said before…

my point was, is this what we want this to be?

You know, because it's what it's turned into now. And I could see it coming.

I got on the phone with one kid.

He was like "Let's talk about the business Coach."

I said, "Who do you think you talking to?" As I said, "This is the conversation that

me and you are not having. Matter of fact, we will never call you back again, sir.

I appreciate you. I wish you the best."

When did that happen?

A kid gets on the phone and say let's talk about the business.

[Coach Saban] Yeah.

Instead of thinking about the right scheme he's in, how you going to use him?

Well, kids should go to college to be developing value for their future.

- [Coach Prime] Right. - Not based on what they're gonna make.

Right.

[manager] You gotta get dressed to be on set.

Oh, okay. Alright. Appreciate you man.

[trumpets playing]

[Coach Prime] Coach Saban and I see eye to eye on many things.

We both teachers, we both trying to prepare these kids for the future.

- He stole my move! - That's gonna cost us a penalty.

The way I see it, our job is to present these kids opportunities.

HBCUs were the only option for African Americans at one point in time.

And it was so many guys that was drafted into the NFL.

It was unbelievable, it was crazy. It was like this is where the talent lies.

[mellow music]

The rest is history.

HBCUs were never the same because now the brother had an option.

That's what we're trying to do.

We're trying to get you to the point that you have an option.

Now you got an option like the XFL.

See this is another alternative to the NFL that provides

another entrance into the game.

You get compensated by your talents.

Isn't this what you want when you was a shorty?

I know you dreamt of the NFL, but right now this is what you gonna get.

And that also is a segue into the NFL.

Boy you better be good. You got on gold tights. You better be good boy.

You better be good. I'm telling you right now. You better ball out.

Hey J, TJ tell him how we get down. You come out here dripping, you better ball.

What's up baby?

- What's up baby? - Cooling dawg.

- You alright? - Yessir.

All this is BP and AP. You know that mean? It's Before Prime and After Prime.

Let's get that straight. And when I smile I just put a ding on my teeth. Ding.

There you go.

That's what it is. Because now HBCUs are shooting for those five stars.

Those four stars, those three stars

that they would have never fathom that they could get.

They're doing that now.

[crowd applauding]

You guys are different man. You guys are special.

It's been a while. You said you ain't get the attention.

Cameras are here. You ain't get the notoriety.

The mics are here. You ain't get the focus.

The Rock is here. What else you want? This opportunity?

There's too many idols that we know back at the crib.

Say, "Man, boy if I'd have stopped smoking, I'd have been this.

Boy if I'd have stopped drinking? I'd have been this.

If I'd have had that opportunity, I'd have been this." Don't be a I'd have.

Today's your opportunity.

You can't say nothing about it because you got it right now.

It's on you. God bless you.

[crowd applauding]

So there's 53 men on an NFL roster. I was always number 54.

DJ, you're good. But you're not good enough. And this is where the dream ends.

The fucking chip that that put on my shoulder never goes away.

You all have different numbers on your chest, but you're all number 54.

You're that player, you're the chip, you've got the fire going on.

So we're gonna kick this off only one way I know how.

- 51 from Grambling? - [player] Yes sir.

[Johnson] We're gonna do a pass rush drill. Me and you one on one. Let's go.

- [player] I've been waiting on this. - [man] Ready. Hut.

Oh, no, no, no. [Johnson laughing]

- [player] I was gonna do it to 'em. - [Johnson] Come on. Hey, let's go.

[hip hop music throughout]

[whistle]

[Buckley] No false steps when you get down there, push, bam, pedal.

[Johnson] As we told Coach Prime for the XFL. That's gonna be our first stop.

And we came down full freight.

Everybody got their asses down here to Jackson State.

[whistle]

[Johnson] Coach Prime is opening the eyes to recruiters, coaches,

professional leagues. There's talent here.

Don't overlook us.

- [Coach Prime] Y'all know who this is. - Y'all know who this obviously.

T-bug tell 'em how, where you went in the draft.

'Cause they don't know you. Who you are. Where you went the draft?

- Fifth pick. - Fifth pick overall, right?

- Overall. - That's what I'm talking about.

They don't even know that. They don't know that history.

Right behind, this guy.

Oh that's Florida State. That's when Florida State was Florida State, right?

Florida State put him out baby.

[Coach Prime and Terrell laughing]

[Garcia] He's not just walking the walk, right.

He's doing everything. He is making it matter. And he knows to look at both sides

and use his influence to make it happen. So you know, that is legacy.

That is magic.

- [hip-hop music] - [whistling]

[Garcia] And then the work that he's doing on the other side

to say for an athlete and a professional athlete,

I'm also going to pull in the league to pay attention.

I absolutely believe that Coach Prime's influence is going

to change things going forward.

We went to that next level and I love it.

[Johnson] Coach Prime is one of the greatest, if not the greatest of all time.

He made his money, he saved his money.

He could ride off in the sunset, but he chose to dedicate his life to these kids.

[Coach Prime] I don't want these guys or anybody watching this to

underestimate what's really transpiring right now. This is history.

The whole league saw that we're worthy enough

that they needed to come here and see our players.

Front and center. Unbelievable.

[Holmes] Man, Coach Prime is a real go-getter. Like he's a difference maker.

Him just making all this happen,

giving us the opportunity that we need to be successful in life.

On and off the field like that, that type of person.

You love to be around that energy, you know,

and you just make a lot of things happen.

It's just a blessing to be out here for real.

[Coach Prime] And throughout this whole process, the kids got promoted.

The program is elevating, the whole school is enhanced in all sports.

That's the vision. Everybody wins.

[hip hop music throughout]

[Coach Prime] Y'all working?

[man] Yes, sir.

[Coach Prime] All right. I don't see nothing hung yet now.

We got rooms over here housekeeping need to get to.

- It's gonna be a partition in this room. - [man] Okay.

[Coach Prime] So you gonna have half of this room.

He's gonna have half of the room. That's what it's gonna be.

[hip hop music continues]

- You seen how the big TVs are. - I'm watching. I'm looking at that.

My truck ain't big enough.

[Coach Prime laughs]

Oh Lord.

[Hart] I've been with Coach about 20 years.

Maybe a little bit more than that. Yeah, it is been…

We've been together for quite a while.

Boy, I'll tell you what boy. Year and a half.

God is unbelievable, isn't He?

[Hart] When we got here we had a football field

that man look like bad golfers was out there just hitting divots in it.

I mean it was just gophers were living out there chilling.

You know, you could break somebody's ankle out there man.

And you know, we got a turf field. Then he got new facilities now.

New uniforms. We got so many uniforms.

I think we rival Oregon, uniform for uniform.

As many as we got. You know what I'm saying?

[indistinct chatter]

[man] I can tell you most…

[Coach Prime] What's up fellas?

My coaching staff is second to none.

These guys are good.

Let's take care of some business.

They know the game like it's the back of their hands. But they know people.

[Bartolone] I had received a phone call from, from Coach Prime

and said, "Hey, let's go pack your bags. You're coming."

And so I left the next morning,

I started my journey from, from Reno to Jackson State.

[Harrell] I knew coming here, I knew the academics were up to par.

I knew the fan base were up to par.

I felt like it was a great place to come in and do what we do.

You know, just build on their tradition and blaze new trails.

Let me just go over these last things and I'm gonna run

through this then you guys can… okay.

Now this is very profound and I want you to feel this.

Don't allow home to interfere with your work

and don't allow work to interfere with your home.

Wherever your feet are, I need you to be there.

The connection that we have, we always joke about it like we're Florida boys.

But it's just something different when it comes to him

that I just never want, I never want him to fail.

A title do not justify who you are. It just locates you.

It let us know where your office is.

[Reilly] I've learned a lot, gained a lot of good personality traits,

character, discipline and you gotta get shit done.

It's the biggest thing I've taken from this place is if not you, then who?

You know get shit the done. It's gotta get done.

Then you gotta ask yourself, are we better with you here?

I want game changers. I want guys that if we miss, if you miss that day, we feel it.

Okay, last point of the day. Everyone loves a winner.

Therefore the goal is to win on the field,

in the classroom, in the community, and at home.

We've got to develop these young men into the men that can handle adversity.

A relationship, finances, attention, jealousy. We gotta develop men.

You know, he gives it to you raw and direct and some people can't take that

but his intentions are always good and he usually always works out in the best way.

Like sometimes man I can't stand him cause I'm like dude,

you wrong, you wrong you wrong about a kid.

And then next thing you know, something happens and he looks over,

there's little fingers like that and he does that thing,

and he is right, he's right. The fucker is right.

Son of a bitch.

But I'm gonna be a head coach one day because of that guy.

And that's just how it's gonna go.

[hip hop music throughout]

[Coach Prime] With the new season comes a new class of seniors

looking to take their careers to the next level.

[Bolden] Coming to a HBCU it was a tough transition,

you know you really get humbled, you know.

At Florida State you take stuff for granted. Things aren't the same.

You know, financial aid ain't the same, facilities isn't the same, you know.

And the main thing for me I told Coach Prime,

I'm not gone lie to you, I was like,

"I'm not staying in no dorm. I never stay in a dorm."

[Wiggins] I draw the line. I started out running.

I'm dipping and dodging. The hater is coming.

Might get right back, ain't no time to wait.

It's time to go face it. I'm seeing they faces.

Slide through the city, I'm keeping it.

Where you at man? You got like 10 seconds.

[Bolden] When I was six I knew I had a gift.

And then in high school when the offers started piling up,

I knew I was really was legit.

What's happening?

[Isaiah's Stepdad] Hey, what's going on?

[Bolden] Nothing much. I was just letting you know the package just came in.

My dad, Juran Bolden, he played in the league

And seen him growing up in the league. It was something like, it was fun.

You know, being around him, seeing guys like Mike Vick,

Mike Alstott, Michael Pittman. It was just a lot of guys I met.

I feel like God blessed me to have the certain people in my life and everything

to line up correctly how it's supposed to.

- Dang, they broke my trophy. - [Isaiah's Stepdad] Which ones?

- [Bolden] All of them. - [Isaiah's Stepdad] No.

I should have told them to bubble wrap it.

[Bolden] I left Florida State. We got a new coach.

Me and new coach didn't agree with my playing time and my position changed.

And I decided to leave.

I'm gonna be honest when Coach Prime called me,

you gotta smile because that's, to me that's like, "Okay

if the goat could see some potential in me,

screw what everybody else could say," you know?

[Coach Prime] 2-3, from the height, the weight, the speed, everything. He has it.

I feel this is the year he put it together.

[Bolden] That's wild. I didn't know I had some of these trophies.

I didn't know these still existed. Too bad they broke everything.

I really do feel like I was destined for this.

Feel like God gave me the ability to play it so why not use it to do what I do best.

I was destined to play football.

[upbeat music throughout]

[Warren] This JUCO right here. Yeah, this is what got me here.

That was a game changer right there.

[commentator] De'Jahn Warren.

[Warren] Yeah, I forced about 15 turnovers myself.

I was coming from everywhere. Reckless.

And like I take pride in hitting.

I was someone who was hungry, someone who played with a chip on his shoulder.

Someone that worked very hard and I say my mental state was very good.

Like I was happy doing what I love.

Sometimes I had to look back at the old me just to remember like you still learn.

From my knowledge, I was the first person he offered and the first person to sign.

I was committed to University Georgia.

Coach Prime, he reached out to me, once he told me what he wanted to do

I wanted to help change that. So on signing day I signed here.

Nobody knew about it. Like I didn't talk about it to nobody.

Everybody thought Georgia.

But my heart was here.

[Coach Prime] Nugget is the most fun-loving guy you would ever wanna meet.

He's a pro, he's a walking pro.

He has it.

[Warren] This is my final season and right now, I'm standing over cliff looking at

where the NFL draft is going to be.

My future's literally in my hands, like this is my ticket.

[Coach Prime] His spirit is so healthy and alive

and you want to see him do so well, but Nugget is always thinking.

He out-thinks himself.

You run 4.3 40, you could jump, athleticism, you got it.

You just get outta your head and play ball.

[Warren] Sometimes you'll lose yourself up in this.

'Cause being an athlete, people don't know that, that really do a lot to your mental.

Like there's been times I almost wanted to give it all up.

But when I say I really cleared my mental and got right with myself and with God.

I really mean it and I'm going to show it.

I feel like this gonna be a great season for me this year.

I just gotta fix a few more things about myself and I already know what they are.

And once I do that, we good.

[Coach Prime] The pressure's on and expectations are high.

[hip hop music throughout]

But I'm good with that,

'cause ain't nobody's expectations higher than mine.

[upbeat music]

I need you to do your part guys.

I need you to do your part. I don't know if you looked at this building,

but it looks pretty good and we're not even a halfway finished.

When you see that big break room right there,

it's gone be pool tables, it's gone be foosballs tables,

it's gone be ping pong tables, it's gone be video games.

I think it's 8 TVs in the new locker room.

8 TVs in that little atrium area.

You ain't gonna be funky sitting up there playing pool.

You gonna be bathed, you gonna have a shower, you gonna be fresh.

You're not gonna be funky sitting in the new furniture.

Especially you lineman, defense, offense linemen, you know.

Y'all already know, y'all big fellas. Y'all know. Aright? We understand?

[players] Yes sir.

[Coach Prime] Guys, I really do feel like this team is far better than last season.

And we dominated. We won the SWAC. We didn't dominate, we won the SWAC.

So that's why my expectation is to be dominant.

My expectation is for several of y'all to go to pro, not one or two guys.

My expectation is several of y'all to get drafted. Not one or two guys.

My expectation is a multitude of y'all to get NIL deals.

Not a few of y'all. That's my expectation.

Now what are your expectation for yourself?

You gotta want it and you gotta see it a lot more than I do.

I can't believe in you and you don't believe in yourselves.

I think we have something wonderful.

This is the beginning. This is the genesis of the season. All right?

Now let's work our butt off and show 'em the revelation.

[coach] All right, let's go.

[Coach Prime] We've tasted winning, it was good.

But the only way that our players, coaches, support staff,

everyone involved with the program is going to elevate,

is to dominate.

[dramatic music throughout]

[Coach Prime] If you dominate in life, you move on up.

I don't placate this. This thing is real to me.

We talking about lives of young men and young women who are

with the support staff that can affect change so many more.

Real fast.

When you dominate, you elevate. Expeditiously, and that's the goal.

Dominate on the field, off the field, in the home,

in the classroom, in the community.

- We gotta dominate. - My brother.

[Coach Prime] That's the mindset. And it starts on the practice field.

It starts on a practice field. When we practice with purpose,

when we practice with passion and we practice to dominate

the game becomes that of practice.

[coach] Don't be lazy 23, not today.

[coach] Being on time is something that you can control.

- Don't ever do that again. - [Coach Prime] Get in stance Nugget!

When you line up, you telling me where you going.

- [player completing drill] - [coach] Too slow. Too slow.

You telling me where you going, alright? Don't tell me nothing, alright?

[Hart] Goals of pre-season is to take that raw brick,

which is a player and carve and smooth out all the edges.

Whether it's baby mama drama, family drama.

When we cut those edges and smooth that rock up, it should make a nice brick.

And we place that brick on top of another brick until we build this wall.

It turns into another wall, and another wall. And then you get this big edifice.

I've always wanna say edifice. So I thought I throw that in there.

- [coach] That's it. - [Hart] And you live in it man.

You live inside this wall because it's gonna be a lot of noise.

[coach] This is where men are made.

[Hart] It's gonna be a lot of rain, thunder, weather,

- all kind of stuff happening. - [Coach Prime] Everything is 100.

[Hart] And the only thing that can shelter you is you,

- and the ones around you. - [Coach Prime] There we go.

[Hart] So that's what you want to get out of summer

and I'm hoping that's what we get out of this summer.

[Coach Prime] We making plays today and we going have fun doing it.

We tackling today and we gone have fun doing it.

[players grunting]

[Coach Prime] We blocking today and we gone have fun doing it.

[player] That's a ball right there.

[Coach Prime] Let's have some fun today. Don't be last big fella.

Everything about life is either psychological or physical.

Being last is a choice.

And that's what you're gonna deal with every day of your life. Figure it out.

The guy that you got to face in front of you, the coaches on your butt,

it's either gonna be physical, psychological, you got to win.

[yelling]

You gonna have fights, you get some hot days, you gonna have some bad days.

But at the end of the day,

you know it gave you a chance to really bond as a team.

Family on me, family on 3.

- 1, 2, 3 family. - [players] Family.

[coach] Let's go, hurry up!

When you lock up, the camera on you at all times.

- Man I'm telling you. - Yes sir.

Hey look, all I had to do was get that mind back together.

And I'm back and I'm back.

- [player] Keep whooping them boys, man. - And I'm back.

[player] It's gone be on you all the time. You keep whooping them boys man.

[upbeat music throughout]

[Bartolone] So this is ace left squeeze buffalo.

What's our call up front here somebody?

[player] Blue two.

[Bartolone] Yep. Okay. And we're gonna throw off this guy, correct?

So really it's just that that crossing route right now

- in that middle of the field window. - [Bartolone] You anticipate it? Yep.

[Coach Prime] Even though my son's the quarterback,

I treat him like everyone else on the team.

You gotta earn your spot. Now he earned it.

But you best believe I'mma stay on him.

[Bartolone] Get lights for me. All right, Shedeur pop up.

Ball's right hash, let's go bunch left spacing.

Okay, perfect. So that Z by default he's just running Cali rules.

There's no doubt about it that he's earned to be the leader on this team.

What's another option we have on on H stick?

[Sanders] It's a high percent chance that the down safety,

strong safety, he's gonna fall off.

Let's let's pull that up right now.

From a mental perspective, schematically, he's super sharp, he's super in tune.

He knows football. He's got a very high IQ.

We wanna make sure he get wide wide though.

- [Bartolone] Yes, exactly. - Yeah. So like right…

[Bartolone] Yes. Let him get out there.

- Here. - [Bartolone] Yes.

But last year he was young and he gets thrown

into the fire as a young freshman quarterback

and I mean shoot, he, he had a heck of a year.

[announcer] Shedeur Sanders goes for the end zone has a man wide open.

[Bartolone] His arm talent is unbelievable.

He can make all the throws and do it accurately.

[announcer] Sanders fires to a man wide open.

[Bartolone] He's also athletic too. And he could get you out at really bad plays.

[announcer] Runs up the middle this time. He keeps, still on his feet.

Sanders is in the end zone.

[Bartolone] He's about as talented as anyone I've ever been around.

It's 8:10 right now. Okay, we are doing ball security at 8:30.

All right, you guys need to get out there ASAP, so you guys can get warmed up.

[Sanders] People just think everything's sweet. You don't really work for anything.

Reality is, my dad, he has a very, very, very high

expectation for like anything come on the football field.

Where you going huh?

I know the impact he had on this world and football. So it's almost normal to me.

Bro, I'm tired you that black towel and stuff man.

- [player laughing] Black towel… - [Sanders] That's not traditional bro.

It's a bunch of trials, tribulations you go through.

My thing like I would say fear of failure.

That's really what I'm been thinking about.

- We all waiting on the visors right now. - We'll be fresh as him.

We all trying to get color visors. We know my dad gonna get mad at it but,

hey, we ain't worry about that right now.

I think we gotta try it though.

What's up man? What's going on?

- Nothing. Chilling. - All right. How y'all been?

- Good. How are you. - Alright. Alright.

[Coach Prime] The expectation for Travis is alarming.

[upbeat music]

[reporter] The number one overall recruit in the

2022 high school football class has committed to Jackson State University.

Hunter is the highest ranked player to ever commit to an HBCU.

[Coach Prime] Travis might be a five star player

but he's also a kid living away from home for the first time.

He's gone have to adjust, just like any other 19 year old.

[Palmer] How y'all like it here in Jackson man?

[Travis] Man, it's good man. I don't be doing nothing for real.

Just be fishing, that's all I do.

- Fishing? Where you fish at? - Everywhere.

Everywhere.

Everywhere I see a pond, you might see me.

- Okay. Okay. What type of fishing? - Bass.

- Bass… - Only large mouth. Yeah.

- [Palmer] So you the truth huh? - [Travis] Yep.

[Palmer] You ain't got no photos of 'em, do you?

- Come on now. - Okay.

[Jalen] You ain't fishing if you ain't take no pictures.

[Palmer] I hear you now.

We're gonna have to link up. See I do tournaments too now.

- [Travis] Oh yeah, see that's what I… - [Palmer laughing]

- [Travis] See, this is out here. - [Palmer] Uh-huh.

- [Palmer] Mhm-hmm. - [Travis] Yeah, little nice one.

[Palmer] Okay. Okay.

[upbeat music]

[Travis] It's not normal for a top ranked recruit in the country to go to HBCU.

But once I seen Coach Prime here,

they need somebody to go ahead and step up with him.

I want to get people's focus on HBCUs.

Continue to let people know that HBCUs is where you want to come.

[Palmer] I'm gonna have to come check you out, man.

You got to, it's all good. You might be in here working Sunday but…

Nah, nah, nah. Nah, I'll be off. I'll be off on on Sunday.

All you gotta do is look at the TV, you gone see us up there.

- Thank you. - Ain't no problem.

- Appreciate it. - Thank you bro.

- Appreciate the haircut man. - Appreciate you.

- Y'all be safe. - You too.

[Travis] Bro brought me back to life.

[dramatic music throughout]

[Coach Prime] Travis is uncertain like I don't know if I'm gonna

let him play because he had surgery, off season surgery,

that we needed to take care of. Because he was gonna try to play through it.

I'm like "Naw dawg. No, you gotta take care of this man."

[Travis] I only practiced like two times

so I can't do what I used to do 100% right now, I gotta build back up to it.

God has a plan for me. He didn't put me through this moment to let myself down.

[Coach Prime] The vision is not just one Travis Hunter.

It's about eight of 'em out there at the same time. Now you changed the game.

[announcer] Ladies and gentleman, make some Holy Ghost noise

for the birthday boy, Mr. Prime Time himself,

- Coach Prime, Deion Sanders! - [crowd cheering and applauding]

[Coach Prime] Now my birthday usually ain't a big deal to me.

Still ain't. I have a problem with celebrating myself.

But to see the city of Jackson, Master P, and the rest of the gang come out.

Man please. That was alright.

[Master P] And y'all know what?

We got the world supporting this school no matter where you

at because of this man right here.

So we gonna salute him and what he's doing for these kids at this school.

It is, it's not going to unnoticed.

We gone make sure that this man change the game, how he's doing right now.

We're just gonna celebrate tonight. We gonna turn up Prime Time.

[announcer] Y'all makes some noise for Master P, ladies and gentlemen!

[crowd cheering]

[Coach Prime] All my folks, all my family, all my friends are my loved ones,

I want to thank y'all and appreciate y'all,

but this was just a reason to bring us together.

So if you could do something for me,

somebody that's not in your crowd that you don't know,

just give 'em a hug and say, "You know what, I love you."

Just give 'em a hug. Don't be too, don't be too flat.

This is a celebration that I've never had pretty much in my life.

This is the biggest kinda event that I've ever had in my life. True, truly.

Jackson State all my coaches, all my players. I love you. I appreciate you.

Everybody, Jackson, Mississippi surrounding areas, peace.

- [crowd cheering] - [soft music]

[Coach Prime clapping] Oooh wee.

- [Deiondra] Happy Birthday. - This is not my birthday. But anyway.

[Deiondra] It's early birthday. Well, it's your birthday Dad.

[Coach Prime] No matter how big this thing gets, it's still all about family.

It's about us and having all my kids close to me at this moment, baby.

Now that means everything.

- Hey son. - [Deion Jr.] I'm ready. I'm ready.

Growing up as a Sanders, people think, yeah, it's a walk in the park.

My dad's from the hood.

[Coach Prime] Hold on, y'all pullin' this pimping. Y'all hold.

- [Sanders] Yeah, hold on. - [Shelomi] Okay, put this away.

[Coach Prime] Okay, let's do something different.

[Deion Jr.] He raise us very different from a lot of other rich kids I guess.

[Coach Prime] Okay daughters.

[Shelomi] With him being who he is,

like we all had to just focus on being ourselves

on like what we want to do with our lives and stuff.

[Deion Jr.] But he was always present.

- [Coach Prime] Who won this? - [Deion Jr.] Bro, these Prada?

- [Coach Prime] Who won this? - [Deion Jr.] Bro, these Prada?

[Coach Prime] Um hum. These ottas.

[Sanders] Reality is, my dad probably has the highest expectation.

If you don't do something great then you fall back on nothing.

Thank y'all. Daddy ain't got no money, don't ask me for nothing tonight.

All my kids have different parts of me.

Big Willie. Big Willie.

But Shedeur I think is equipped with more parts of me

because he spent the most time with me.

[Sanders] I've been around him the longest.

'Cause I was always played for my dad my whole life.

Like we're grown. We're a little bit older now,

so as long you do nothing like they're detrimental

to yourself or the family, then he's a cool guy.

[smooth hip hop playing]

[Coach Prime] I understand life. At this young spry age,

I do understand life and God has waxed me with wisdom.

It's never just about JSU and it's never just about me, it's about us, man.

[upbeat music]

[news anchor] We interrupt your usual program for breaking news.

Mississippi Governor, to address Jackson's water crisis.

[Governor] As we speak, we are drafting a state of emergency

declaration with regards to Jackson's failure to produce running water.

We do not have reliable running water at scale.

The city cannot produce enough water to fight fires,

to reliably flush toilets, and to meet other critical needs.

[news anchor] The problems at the water treatment plant

came after days of heavy rains, resulted in a swollen Pearl River.

[reporter] Now this potentially leaves close to

200,000 people without save water to drink.

[news anchor] Tonight it is almost every family for themselves

in the search for water.

[reporter] Tonight one of the most alarming parts of this story,

schools are now impacted and officials say they don't know

how long the crisis will last.

[coach] Go the whole field.

[Coach Prime] We hit with little crisis. The city of Jackson, we don't have water.

It means we don't have air condition. We can't use toilets,

we don't have water, therefore we don't have ice.

Which pretty much places a burden on the program.

So right now we're operating in a crisis mode.

I gotta get these kids off campus and accommodate them

so that they can shower properly and take care of their just… needs.

The devil is alive. You ain't gonna get us today baby.

- [dramatic music] - [sirens]

[Reilly] We can't get a glass of fucking water here, man.

I mean we… that's that should end the conversation.

You cannot drink water in this city.

The whole city of Jackson. The whole city, really? The whole city.

My old lady had brushed her teeth and she got sick from it the other day.

Like how does that happen?

[Harrell] Coach Prime does a great job when there is adversity,

putting things in place to make you feel comfortable as a coach and as a player.

If we gotta go somewhere and

at a 5 star hotel just to make the guys feel good, you know he's big on that

and the university backs him when it comes to that.

[Warren] Coming up how I came up.

I knew how to survive on the lights cut off, how to survive on the water cut off.

Without both, I still know how to survive, so I'm fine.

But Coach Prime did make it so that I didn't have to revert back to my old ways.

He put us in a hotel. So we was good.

[Miller] I gotta show y'all something though. See one thing about these beds,

they got these nice little… Lemme show y'all man.

See these little covers right here. See, people don't know, but I know.

Like these little… Man, smooth.

I don't what material this is, gotta be cotton or something, but…

Helmet.

Coach Prime, he's finding ways to always fix things.

Snapping on people every time to make sure that we okay

and to make sure that we good.

Only way we can pay him back is to win and compete

and keep dominating teams. That's how we pay him back, so…

[Coach Prime] Why you late?

You hang with the wrong group man. You gotta get some new friends.

You know better, dog.

- You a leader or a follower? - [player] I hope so.

- I'm asking you a question. - Excuse me, then I'm a leader.

[Coach Prime] Who are you? You're a leader but you come in here late.

You a leader, alright? You a leader. He's the leader, DT.

[group chatter]

[Coach Prime] Face the front. Face the front.

Turn it off, turn it off, turn it off, turn it off.

Hey guys, go put your phones outside. We ain't finna do this.

[coach] Hurry up. Hurry up, let's go.

[Coach Prime] Put your phones on the table man.

Put your phones on the table. We not gonna do this.

We're not gonna start out like this. Phone on the table.

[coach] Hurry up, let's go.

[Coach Prime] Go put your food, put your food in..

Hey guys, go put your food in the trash can, clean the tables. Come on.

This is a real meeting. We don't do this at home.

We not gonna do this here. This is a real meeting.

Starting off wrong. Just 'cause we change locations.

Y'all act like we changing destinations. It's not. We're the same.

But you… put you in a whole new environment and you act totally different.

I'm seeing a whole bunch of followers and no leaders.

[dramatic music throuhgout]

Cause true leaders takes responsibility for the team and helps them achieve goals.

The state, the fact of being accountable or to blame for something.

You got believe this fellas. It's all on your shirts,

but the way you going about your life, you don't.

You just meandering through this thing,

thinking somebody gonna give you something.

Ain't nobody gonna get you nothing.

You gonna have to take it. You going to have to earn it.

You gonna have to want that thing. You gonna to feel that thing.

You gonna have to embody that thing.

And we getting closer to the game

and you guys are meandering around here like it's normalcy.

Air feels real good right here, ain't it?

It didn't feel good that way at school did it?

But we stepped outside of who we are to make it happen for you all.

What are you gonna step outside who you are and make it happen for us?

[indistinct chattering]

On top of dealing with this water crisis,

I'm wrestling in my mind, do I let Travis play or do I sit him out?

It's tough with him man.

You gonna get 12. Is 12 going to play?

Coach, I gotta protect him. He ain't ready.

Travis is uncertain. Like I don't know if I'm gonna let him play

because Travis has to be Travis.

And I can't let him out there not being him.

Like, I couldn't go out on the field unless I was me.

Because the, the criticism is more than you want.

- Right. - And you know he has the world watching.

I don't wanna put him in harm's way. We're saying that he's not fully healthy

and he a little tentative. And that's the thing you can't play tentatively.

You can't play scared because there's a tremendous expectation.

He can't really plant and he can't do, he can't be who he is.

He could be great but not a game changer. And that's who he is.

He's a game changer on both sides.

- No doubt. - On both sides.

Going back home, to the hometown, college debut, crazy.

[coach giving drill commands]

[coach] There you go. There you go.

Ready, set, hit. Ready, set, hit.

- [players grunting] - [coach] There you go, there you go.

[upbeat music throughout]

[player] You gotta put it behind you, Get to the next play, bro.

[Warren] Okay.

[Coach Prime] Nugget out thinks himself.

Instead of thinking of the best thing that can possibly happen,

he think about the worst thing that can possibly happen.

And normally that thing that we pondered that we don't want to happen, it happens.

- [Warren] This shit ain't acceptable bro. - [player] Hey, hey.

[Warren] I got a lot of friends that could have been

in this position but the streets took that away from 'em.

[player] You good bro. You just gotta get out of your head.

- [Warren] This is not acceptable, bro. - [player] Go harder.

[Warren] Even though I was around it, that was never a part of me.

And I always had a love for football.

[coach] Ready. Go.

[players grunting]

[coaches] You boys good? You good boys?

[Warren] Just going through a lot mentally…

almost falling into like a little deep hole

I lost a female friend. She got stabbed. Two other friends of car accidents.

Another one to a shooting.

I fell right on my head, cuh.

I seen so many things I can't even speak on.

It's just the way I came up.

I may be young but my eyes are very old.

[Askevold] So what's going on with you in general? Ain't got it today, huh?

- [Warren] I need a fucking therapist. - [Askevold] Like mental?

[Warren] My little cousin last night, she just lost a friend.

15 years old. Got shot in a store.

[Askevold] So what's going on? You want to talk about it or no?

[Warren] When they talk about a trap, it's literally a trap.

Like the mind and your body is trapped.

So that's what I'm trying to get my family outta there 'cause they still in the hood.

- [whistle blowing] - [crowd cheering]

[Warren] Can I get some water please, before you go?

It's like every day I wake up I feel like I'm drowning.

Suffocating. But I don't know what's wrong with me.

This player y'all saying out there today, that's not me.

I don't know who that person is.

[player] Family on me. Family on 3. 1, 2, 3.

[All] Family.

[Warren] Like I'm drowning at my own dream. You feel me?

That's how I feel. I'm drowning at my own dream, and I can't get out.

I think its probably just a me versus me thing.

I'll figure it out, hopefully before Sunday.

[Coach Prime] For some of these kids this season means everything.

Every game gets to them a little bit closer to their football future.

Or some cases farther away.

[upbeat music]

[flight attendant] Flight time is one hour and 52 minutes.

[Coach Prime] FAM U, coached by my dear friend Coach Willie Simmons.

One of the best in the business.

Willie has a tremendous offense. He's a tremendous play caller,

has a quarterback that can spin it. Has a defense that can attack.

He's gonna come with it. I expect him to come with it.

That's what I want him to come with it.

This game has ramifications.

The winner of this game is probably gonna win it all.

It's a great test for our first game.

I wasn't in the best head space yesterday, but I cleared my mind so I'm feeling good.

I'm good, I'm ready. Just anxious, that's it.

Keep watching the same plays over and over.

[chill music throughout]

[man] Get them out!

[players cheering and laughing]

[host] This game, this classic was founded back in 1933

and that established the foundation

for historically black college and university classics.

[Coach Prime] But this is a wonderful stage,

it's a wonderful platform and I think we've both shown that

you can make it to the NFL from a HBCU.

[whistle]

[Coach Prime] Everything full speed.

Everything with intensity, everything with passion.

Let's go get it. Ain't no resting today, ain't no breaks today. Go get it.

Practice at game speed so the game is like practice.

Oh that Florida boy here. Boy that was a perfect idea.

Y'all got a real one today.

- [Sapp laughing] - [Coach Prime] You got a real one today.

Make sure you have the discipline and the accountability to each other.

That you can go out here and do this shit. 'Cause this four quarter right,

sideline and sideline, goal post to goal post, for four motherfuckering quarters.

[Coach Prime] Our thoughts and our prayers are with the residents

of Jackson, Mississippi.

[reporter] With some of the water issues in Jackson,

can you talk a little bit about how that affected your preparation?

[Coach Prime] We took our players outta the dormitories

when the schools were shut down and got 'em into hotels.

We were able to take care of them properly

and professionally until we got on the plane yesterday to do arrive here.

Yeah, the mall here, got the whole city Miami here. You know I'm from Florida.

It's just, it's beautiful to be back home, you know.

It's just who wouldn't wanna be in Florida? You know.

- [Vick] Doing great. Yes sir. Nah. - [man] Ain't we coming back, now.

- My hero. - My hero.

- [Coach Prime] How you doing, please? - [Vick] I'm good.

[Coach Prime] We're looking good.

I don't have any true concern at any of the positions.

Some of the kids we hadn't seen them in a game situation

and they gotta understand how we roll in excitement

and adrenaline and every play is vital with us.

This is, yeah, we take this serious man.

Linebacker group, they better than y'all?

[linebackers] Hell naw.

- [Coach Prime] Secondary? - [secondaries] No.

[Coach Prime] Ain't nobody, ain't nobody in the SWAC got what we got.

We just gotta do our jobs to put it together.

When you do what you're capable of doing at every table,

when you do what you're capable of doing, it's dominating.

[hip hop music through speakers]

[Travis] I wasn't fully prepared for the FAM-U game.

I only practiced like two times. So it was my first week coming back.

Two days before the game, couldn't even put pressure on my foot.

They was almost about to take me to the the emergency room

cause I was in so much pain.

A lot of emotions floating around that games 'cause I wanna play so bad.

I wasn't feeling anything. My adrenaline was rushing.

[Coach Prime] You mean more to us than this game.

Now if you ain't you, I don't want put you in that situation.

When you walk out there any field, any practice,

anything you to do, they expect you to be that dude.

Now if you ain't that dude, this is not a good decision.

[Travis] You get called into the office, you know something very serious.

It's like, he really cared about me. He really wanted to know how I felt.

Not what anybody else was telling him, not what the trainer was telling him.

Not what the coaches was telling him. He called me in there to talk to me.

[Coach Prime] Are you gonna go out there and be you?

- What percentage you at? - [Travis] I feel like I'm at 90.

- [coach] You at who? - [Travis] 90.

[Coach Prime] I gotta take care of your career my brother,

and I gotta treat you like you a son to me.

And that's how we've always treated all of y'all.

Go head out, let me talk to them.

I know how he feel though. First one ever.

It would be hard for me to be sitting over there and don't play.

And he got that in him. He got you in him, he got me in him.

He got that thing in him.

It really meant a lot to me 'cause I'm from Florida. I'm from West Palm Beach

and most of the crowd was probably my family.

They didn't even know if I was playing or not. I didn't tell 'em anything.

They asked me if I'm playing, yeah, I'm playing.

I didn't even know if I was playing.

[Coach Prime] Guys, I was searching hard and long to

find something to say to you that was truly appropriate.

I went to my favored weapon, which is the Bible.

I didn't even get past the Book of Genesis.

It's the beginning when God walked into darkness

and saw nothing and said, "Let there be light."

This is your genesis. What if you could say "Let there be."

It should be what we say. What if we said, "Let there be sacks.

Let there be catches. Let there be touchdowns.

Let there be… Let there be tackles.

Let there be everything you endeavor to be."

Fellas, this is a wonderful opportunity.

But all we gotta do is say, "Let there be."

And we finna go out there and do something that we know we are capable of doing.

[dramatic music]

- [crowd cheering] - [upbeat music]

[player] Come on, Coach! Come on!

[Coach Prime] If you feel something my brother,

you've got not try to be Superman. You've got to get up outta of there, alright?

I'm letting you ride. You gotta come on.

Don't make it worse and don't think about it. Just be who God called you to be.

[Travis] He's not worried about what you can do for him in the moment.

He want me to get to the next point in my life. He want me to get to the league.

He want me to be a a great, not just a great football player, a great human,

a great husband, a great man.

Thanks, Coach. Thank you for giving me this chance, Coach.

[Coach Prime] I love you boy. I love you. You know I love you.

[Travis] Thank you Coach for giving me this chance.

You mean so much to me, Coach.

[Coach Prime] You mean so much to me too.

I love you, and I gotta take care of you, all right?

[Travis] Yes sir. Thank you Coach.

[Coach Prime makes kissing sound]

[Coach Prime] Travis has to be Travis. I just wanna see him relax

and do the doggone thing and be dominant.

- How you feel baby? - [Sanders] Good, good.

[Coach Prime] Just get us in the right thang and let God be God.

You don't have to be that. Let God be God. It's gonna be a big one for you.

Shedeur don't flinch. He's always been that way.

That's why we call him grown. He's always acted like an adult, a grown man.

He has a calmness, a, a steadiness, a certainty.

Just a smoothness about it. He got it.

Hey, it's the Genesis, this beginning. This it, 4,000, it starts today.

- All right, love you baby. - [Sanders] Love you.

[Coach Prime] I'm looking at him as a coach, number one.

I really don't look at it as a dad until probably after the game.

[coaches] Here we go. Here we go, let's go, let's go!

[announcer] We underway from Hard Rock Stadium.

[Hart] It's here. It's arrived. It's time. And that ball gets kicked off

and whoever catches your ass is in trouble.

[announcer] Sanders looking to the end zone. Finds the target and touchdown.

- [crowd cheering] - [announcer] Shane Hooks.

[Hart] 'Cause we've been dealing with some shit down here

and we've been looking for a punching bag.

Straight up.

[Coach Prime] Don't save none, Brett.

Empty your playbook, do not save anything. Empty it out.

[announcer] Showing off the arm strength, the mobility.

Look at the patience. Got a guy.

[announcer] Has time, and there's Rico Powers.

[crowd cheering]

[dramatic music]

[coach] Hey get off, hey you coming off.

I told you, if you don't beat him up at the line, you out.

- Where Michael Pleas at? - [Warren] That wasn't even my dude.

Yeah, well I don't give a fuck. You didn't hold nobody.

[player] Aye, that quarterback not accurate at all.

The thing about Nugget is, is all between his head.

He really have a lot of distractions outside of football.

So I feel like God brought him here to be under Coach Prime.

Be under Coach Mathis, so they can steer him into the right direction.

[Travis] They don't even throw it no more to my side,

but I'm still hoping for them throw over there, trying to get me a pick.

[announcer] When you have a DB that take away a whole side of the field like that.

That's a lot like his coach used to do.

[dramatic music]

[announcer] Dangerous throw, and no white jerseys around.

Let's go.

[Coach Prime] Dawg, you know when they coming in motion, it's a switch.

Y'all gotta talk about that. Come on.

[Bolden] And now it's time to drop your nuts, you know?

Who really is gonna be Tarzan in and who gonna play Jane?

Which one of y'all supposed to go in?

Who told you to go in? Who told you to go in?

No, you ain't watching game. I know it's you.

You ain't paying attention to the game.

You ain't watching the game.

[Reilly] He's an intense man, man.

He wants to win. He's a very competitive person.

He expects excellence.

And if you don't reach that standard. You're gonna hear about it.

[announcer] Florida A & M, anxious for some points

and this one goes through the uprights and it's good.

[upbeat music]

- [player] Man, zero, zero. - [indistinct chattering]

Great things going.

Everybody's drinking. Everybody's drinking.

Let's go get 24 more.

[coach] Hey. Hey everybody.

All right. Everybody on special teams listen up.

Hey, what they do, hey, we got the ball in the second half. Where fucking Quay at?

[phone rings]

- Hey - [Coach's Mom] Hey.

- You all right? - [Coach's Mom] I'm all right.

- You sure? - [Coach's Mom] Yeah I'm sure.

- You need me to come? - [Coach's Mom] No. No.

[Coach's Sister] No, but you tell your boys to hold that ball.

And you tell them to block for Shedeur.

They are blocking for Shedeur. I'm worried about y'all right now.

[Coach's Sister] We was going to talk to you after the game.

You stay focused on that game.

[Coach Prime] We gone win it. We gone bring it back home.

All right well, I know I'll be seeing y'all soon now.

Y'all just let me know what arrangements you wanna make and all that. Uh?

- [Coach's Mom] Sure will, Mindy too. - I know. So let me know what arrangements

you need to make, where everything need to be. So we can take care of it.

[Coach's Mom] Oh, okay.

- All right. I love y'all. - [Prime's Mom] Love you too.

- All right. - [Coach's Mom] Bye-bye.

[man] Coach, you okay?

Yeah. Naw we're good. We're good.

Let's go to work.

Hey coach.

We may have to flip it and go back at that again

'cause we had that across the middle. That, that dagger.

Yes. Both of them are good.

Now, we just gotta keep the level of intensity.

- Trust yourself. - We're good. We got it.

All right. I'm outside… So, okay he can film me, alright, alright.

[Coach Prime] Hey! Fellas, we gotta dominate.

It's the only way we're gonna get to the next level.

Anything in life, you gotta dominate the space you in. Then you get elevated.

I love what I'm seeing, but we got a little lackadaisical.

We gonna get the ball, we gonna go down and score and they gonna lay down

and after they lay down, defense gonna get back on the field

and do what they been doing. 'Cause that's what y'all do.

[players] Yes sir.

- [Coach Prime] Do you believe? - [players] Yes sir.

- [Coach Prime] Do you believe? - [players] Yes sir.

- [Coach Prime] Do you believe? - [players] Yes sir!

Well let's go do this then.

[Coach Prime] This next five to seven minutes is gonna determine…

Yeah. Yeah. You gotta go.

Intensity. Intensity, intensity.

[Sanders] I don't like being in close games. I like blowing teams out.

[announcer] Jackson State.

They come out of the locker room score on the opening drive.

[coach] We having a fish fry today. Let's mix it up. Pick. Pick. Pick.

[announcer] It's picked off! To the house!

[Hart] Good shit. Good shit. Good stuff. Good stuff.

Here we go. Now we're cooking with grease.

[Coach Prime] Listen lineman,

a lot of y'all this is going to be your last series. So finish strong.

- [players] Yes sir. - [Coach Prime]We got that.

- [players] Yes sir. - [Coach Prime] Finish strong, alright?

[coach] Oh, there it is. Hit it.

[Hart] Uh oh. Uh oh. Get the block. Uh oh.

[Harrell] Probably by third quarter, you know,

"Okay. We… we're in full of control." You still dialed in,

but you get a chance to really enjoy the environment. You know the fans, the band.

You'll see the expressions of the kids face,

when they have success, you know, it's wonderful. It's wonderful.

[announcer] Four touchdowns for Shedeur Sanders.

Just three in completions the entire game.

Sanders, finds his man and a touchdown.

- [upbeat music] - [crowd cheering]

[Bolden] We put a whole nation on notice. Simple as that.

Coach talking about dominating. We dominated behind,

and the fans left in the third quarter. The band left, everybody left.

That was supposed to be a heavyweight fight and ended up being a knockout.

[announcer] Fumble. On the ground. Scooped up by Aubrey Miller in for the score.

[Warren] It is what it is. I made the best of every opportunity I was given

once my number got called. I'm a team player.

I won't hating. I'm happy my brothers.

'Cause look, once one go down, the other one can hold it up.

[Sanders] You gotta understand. We just don't say, say we gonna dominate.

Just to say it like that's not just something just written

on the wall like we mean it. We live by every day. This was a big opportunity.

And look, we just scored again, like this ain't nothing.

[Coach Prime] One thing people don't realize too, the kicking game different.

[coach] Yup.

[Coach Prime] Look at that dawg. Look at the hang time. Look at the hang time.

They stopped returning the ball at the end of second quarter.

[coach] Yep.

[Travis] I wanna play so bad. I wasn't feeling anything.

My adrenaline was rushing so it was like,

"Coach, I'm 90% I wanna play." I had to let him know.

[man] Where were you really at? Like for real?

Uh, probably 20%. Like, like I said, that night, the night before,

I couldn't even put pressure on it.

This is something rough to go through,

but at this point it's just like I want to get healthy,

100% healthy, and once I get 100% healthy, then I better shine how I need a shine.

[announcer] 59 to 3. And Coach Prime and Shedeur Sanders

hand Jackson State their first win of the season.

[announcer] Nobody saw this coming at all.

I was trying to figure out, is Jackson State that good?

It's not even so much a dominating FAM-U

as it is of dominating the weakness inside of you

to make sure every play you give it your all.

Complete domination. Do… exceed your own goals.

Do as much as you can within that four quarters, that you leave no doubt

with anybody who should have won that game.

But fellas, I'm proud of y'all, man. You have no idea how proud I am of y'all.

I knew it was gonna go down like that. I felt it was gonna go down like that

and it went down like that. So where he at?

Where my son? Uh uh. Come on, come on, come on, come on.

[team cheering]

Hold on, hold on, hold, hold.

We kicked they butts.

[Alejandro Mata giving Spanish translation]

[cheering]

It wasn't even close.

[Alejandro Mata giving Spanish translation]

- [crowd cheering] - We did that.

[Alejandro Mata giving Spanish translation]

Now give me my theme music.

[Alejandro Mata giving Spanish translation]

[upbeat music]

[Coach Prime] The thing that I love the most is the fashion that we won.

Yet and still the team wasn't satisfied

because they felt like we left meat on the bone.

Yeah, we, we left some collard greens on the plate.

I love it.

[reporter] White House Press Secretary,

Karine Jean-Pierre says, President Biden has been

briefed on Jackson's water crisis.

[Jean-Pierre] There is still a tremendous amount of work to be done today.

[Morini] Think the water's gonna be turned on by Monday?

[man] No.

[Coach Prime] Probably not.

Do they have a plan for like the team and stuff like that?

[Coach Prime] Probably, no. We are the plan.

[Coach Prime chuckles]

We are the plan.

The Bible says in this world we're gonna have tribulations.

We've always had tribulations since the day I set forth here.

We came during the pandemic, We had a storm that we were

bathing in the pool at one of the local hotels. Now, the water situation.

Thing that I've understood about the people of Jackson is

they're resilient and all they needs is a little hope.

[man] Water is not safe to drink.

And I'd even say it's not safe to brush your teeth with.

[reporter] State officials, say residents will be without

safe drinking water and have virtually no water pressure

for an unknown period of time because the plant is operating far below capacity.

[Coach Prime] We better get this darn water right

before our first game here. ASAP.

[Sanders] The city needs us and we need the city also.

- [sirens] - JSU by 40 today.

- [Coach Prime] Who they came to see? - [players] Us.

- [Coach Prime] Who they came to see? - [players] Us.

[crowd cheering]

[triumphant music throughout]