Jackson State head coach Deion Sanders walks out on the field for JSU's spring game at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Jackson, Miss., Sunday, April 24, 2022. Tcl Jsu
Deion Sanders is adding more SEC flavor to his Colorado coaching staff.
Matt Zenitz of On3 reports that Darrius Darden-Box is leaving Vanderbilt for a recruiting role on Sanders’ Colorado staff.
Box tweeted that he was leaving West End for a new opportunity. His farewell note does not mention Colorado.
Darden-Box has been with the Commodores for 5 seasons. He started in 2018 under Derek Mason as an offensive quality control assistant. Under Clark Lea, Darden-Box shifted to a player personnel analyst role in 2021. The 2022 season was his first as associate director of high school scouting.
A Nashville native, Darden-Box prepped at Pearl-Cohn and played college football at Southeast Missouri State.
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So he’s taking the guy from the worst recruiting school in the SEC to be his Director of Recruiting. That’s great news, for the competition.
Your premise is incorrect. Just because he worked at Vanderbilt does not mean he is a bad recruiter. That's like saying a coach who came from a lower tier school, i.e., James Franklin, is not a good coach. In addition, Vandy has much higher standards to get recruits, so you can say his job was much harder due to the academic standards Vanderbilt requires.