Flamboyant personalities like Deion will always attract attention, good and bad. He has been a convention defying interrupter all of his sporting life. He got backlash from baseball traditionalists when he pushed his body to its limits by playing in the NFL and in a world series the same season.

I think Deion will eventually be spoken of among the game's great coaches. Why?

Because he has been to the very top of the sports world and, as I point out in this article https://medium.com/kicks-n-cleats/our-stereotyping-of-athletic-confidence-f83addebce7, he has been to the very bottom in his mental health odyssey. What better résumé to be a leader of young men?