The Memphis Tigers opened their season with a 27-21 win over the UNLV Rebels over the weekend. It was the first game of the Charles Huff era in Memphis. With Deion Sanders and the Colorado Buffaloes opening their season Thursday night at Georgia Tech, sports media personality Jason Whitlock took the opportunity to compare the two coaches.
After doing a whole episode of his “Fearless” show on YouTube about Sanders heading into the season, Whitlock posted another video on X celebrating the way Huff does things compared to Coach Prime.
“Deion Sanders has the cameras,” said Whitlock. “Charles Huff has the consequences. One performs toughness for television. The other demands it when no one is watching. In the next six, seven minutes I will show you why Huff, the kid from a 10-acre hog farm outside Denton, Maryland, is the most serious hire in college football, and why the Prime Time model, for all its charisma, is the wrong way to build men and build a team.”
Charles Huff’s resume
“No speeches about work ethic. Just work,” Whitlock continued. “Huff said he knew at 6 that he wanted to coach. No football offers out of high school. Walk-on at Hampton. Not an anointed scholarship kid. A walk-on who earned the starting center job, earned the captaincy and learned that nothing is given. Then, seven coaching stops. Grinding. Tennessee State, Maryland, Vanderbilt, Penn State, Mississippi State and the Ph.D. under Nick Saban at Alabama. He did not network his way up. He worked his way up…