Deion Sanders signed future Heisman Trophy winner Travis Hunter — the nation’s No. 1 overall recruit — to Jackson State without ever stepping foot on his high school campus.
No one on his staff visited, either. It was unprecedented, an unthinkable recruiting victory that established Sanders as a force in the sport.
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But now entering his sixth season as a college coach and third season at Colorado, Sanders has a recruiting approach that has grown more traditional as his program has matured. No, Sanders still isn’t making home or school visits, a much discussed choice that is believed to have made him the only one of 136 FBS coaches to have
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