The head coach of a 12-0 football team that just won its second straight conference title was able to side with his players, as the head coach of a lavish indoor pep rally that began at the height of the Pandemic ended with a cowardice move to dodge reporters.
Deion Sanders is done with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), as he has chosen to leave an 1-8 football team at a predominantly white school for a large sum of money.
A press conference is scheduled for Sunday in Boulder, Colo., where Sanders will speak about his departure from JSU. After breaking the news to his team, he hopped on a plane and headed to Colorado.
The feeling that there was so much left to be done, even if it was a negative experience for JSU, is something that can't be denied. It was impossible for a man to see JSU as a step stool.
Those who refused to educate themselves on his past were put into atrance by the hypnotizing song played by the Piedpiper. He used JSU and HBCUs to further his career as a pimp. You are living in a fairytale world if you still don't know who he was before he showed up, who he was during his short time at JSU, and who he will always be. This isn't a situation in which Bob Iger has hired a writer for a Pixar film. You are being bamboozled by your refusal to admit that you believed in an egotistical clown who sold out the culture while he always knew that your inability to accept the facts would leave you in the middle of debates.
Too many people thought that his antics and soundbites were helping HBCUs as a whole when they weren't. More football games may have been aired on the network, but it was all for the benefit of the school, not the other way around.
Does Tougaloo College have a surplus that we haven't heard about? Can you tell me about Fort Valley State University. Is there a Morehouse college? Do you mean any of the other 106 HBCUs that didn't have him on payroll?
The answer isn't yes, it's no. He wanted to make the one that paid him better, until he could use that to his advantage.
Over the last few years, we have seen highly ranked recruits flirt with the idea of changing the game for HBCU athletics. Master P.'s son left Tennessee State University in the blink of an eye after a short basketball stay at Howard University. There was a four-star recruit who kept his name in the news by constantly mentioning that an HBCU was a real possibility until he signed with Memphis.
If the game is ever going to change for HBCU athletics, then it will happen by investing resources and giving exposure to these schools so that they have all the tools necessary to recruit and retain 3, 4, and 5-star athletes. It is possible to build and sustain programs that can send kids to the pros. The plan is not quick fixes or flash-in-the-pan hires, it is the plan that will lead to the downfall of the company.
When the man who always claimed that he cared about Black people banned a black reporter from covering his team at JSU, it was the most defining incident of his career.
The ban was lifted after a discussion with other people. It didn't feel as if the air was clear. The Executive Editor at the newspaper was Walker. The reporter was banned from the SWAC Media Day due to a report that came out earlier in the week detailing how one of his most coveted recruits was charged with assault. It wasn't easy after we changed reporters. It was difficult for local reporters to cover the football team because of Deion's preference for national press.
The program at JSU hadn't been seen since the days of Walter Payton, but in just three seasons, the program was brought attention. His resume and skills speak for themselves. Is it worth it to win?
The coaches and players he wants to take with him to Colorado will be selected in the coming days. Most of the players in that program will have to decide whether or not to stay and play for the coach they never signed up for. It is clear that, until recently, there was no plan for how the program would run after he left. People who don't care about where they are because they're focused on where they're going next rarely lose sleep over what will happen after they're gone. The players at JSU did a good job of executing their game plan despite the cloud that their coach brought over their stadium.
Jackson State will play North Carolina Central in the Celebration Bowl for the Black National Championship in Atlanta on December 17th, which will be the final game for the head coach of the school. Last year, his team played in the game. The braggadocious Deion was taken aback. South Carolina State University defeated his team 31-10). The Earth will be given to the meek.
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