Maybe I'm in the minority that isn't sold on his coaching abilities. He's been fortunate enough to have his own son that wasraised around the life and no doubt trained with the best growing up. That's a huge lift to have a QB you can trust and know inside and out.
What we do know is his name has cache and he can recruit. His career speaks for itself and that will recruit kids. Add in NIL money and Deon will do exactly what he did as a player, legally as a coach.
He sold black kids on playing for HBCU, how they could be the revival, the movement, yadda yadda. That is something not even Saban can replicate. NOW, can Deon sell Boulder, Colorado? A cold, high elevation, upper white class environment to a lot of kids that will no doubt feel out of place from where they are actually from? The culture shock itself will be the test. They are saying recruits are already calling, NIL money is already funneling in, so we will see. He's hot right now, but let's see if he actually can build a legit program from the bottom, up. Will be interesting to see. Trey Sanders is already interested.