It's hard to really criticize Deion. He put in his time at Jackson State. I guess it really comes down to how long people think he should have bee committed to that school. If he's done enough to bring some extra attention to HBCUs and convince some higher ranked players to give them a shot, is that good enough for him to move on make what is probably a better career move for him personally?
Deion wasn't committed to the school, he was committed to his own career and White folks shut him out as a head coach.
Deion went to the White schools and said "I am HOFer Deion Sanders, give me a head coaching job."
And White schools said "So?"
That's what all this comes down to. Deion Sanders didn't have any pull with White schools but he has pull with HBCUs because they are understaffed and underfunded.
There's absolutely no reason for any 5 star prospect to go to an HBCU. The competition and facilities are inferior. Universities are dropping 50 million dollars into facilities. That's an endowment for some HBCUs.
Deion Sanders after 3 seasons just proved that there's no reason for them to go because any coach that can recruit 5 and 4 star players to an HBCU and win will ultimately leave to go to a White school.
And the only coaches that could recruit on that level is a charismatic, legendary HOF player that can leverage his professional experience and pro-Blackness into a recruiting pitch.
That's the only advantage an HBCU can have over an Alabama.
Travis Hunter ain't going to JSU without a Deion telling him that him going JSU changes the landscape of HBCU football vs. going to Florida State and just being another 5 star recruit.
Like I said, if you care about about Black people having Black institutions and being on par with White people then you must give up your own individual ambitions and aspirations. You can't just leave when you become successful.
Using Black people and their plight as your stepping stone to White institutions just proves that Black people and Black institutions are not worth investing in and they should die.
Black people largely just don't find any value in having high level functioning Black institutions and use Black people and Black institutions as gateways into White ones and nobody wants to say that out loud.