Im hearing from “sources” its mainly because JSU administrators didnt want to take the next steps to play against d1 comp when given the opportunity and Deion was like man enough of this bs.That's my main problem with it. I don't have an issue with him going to a PWI if it was a better career opportunity for him. I just feel like he should have done it in a way that wouldn't have torpedoed what he built at JSU. That might have meant having to sacrifice whatever offers came his way this year as he prepped the team to move forward without him.
I mean Jackson state can hire another coach to further their program. Deion ain't the only high profile hire of color.
Im hearing from “sources” its mainly because JSU administrators didnt want to take the next steps to play against d1 comp when given the opportunity and Deion was like man enough of this bs.
Niggas thought he was the Messiah like all the other hbcu’s wasnt still eating top ramen while snoop and all these high profile celebrities was “here i come, here i go’” all around JSU only. It was great publicity but it didn’t elevate hbcu as a whole, just one school and it became big fish in a small pond.So relying on ONE person to help elevate a school and all of HBCU is the plan I see. Gotcha
Actually they are a dime a dozen. Black coaches aren't getting hired in the Pros or the SEC.lol People of Deion's stature are not a dime a dozen man, and most of them aren't trying to go to HBCUs. Again, that's the whole reason why Deion going to JSU was seen as monumental at the time.
That makes some sense. Still, that's not the athlete's fault. He could have done better by them simply by giving a year or two more to make a smooth exit.
So relying on ONE person to help elevate a school and all of HBCU is the plan I see. Gotcha
I mean Jackson state can hire another coach to further their program. Deion ain't the only high profile hire of color.
Anybody on here saying they wouldn't take a $29 Million deal over a 1Million...is lying .
Maybe he brings them with himOnly issue is him going to those kids homes recruiting them telling them he's going to be their coach and then bolting. Luckily he made his intentions known before they signed to commit to the school
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The criticism about Deion Sanders leaving JSU isn't about Deion Sanders. He's just a visible example.
This is about Black institutions, Black Americans and trust.
What makes societies function and prosperous are powerful institutions.
What makes institutions powerful is that the people they serve can trust them.
All of Western society built off strict institutional trust. If an institution promises you something they are obligated to keep it. Even shit that can't be enforced by law, when that promise is broken, people get upset, people revolt and the institution has to address it.
The reason why Black Americans built their own institutions is because we couldn't trust White ones.
Now we can't trust Black institutions because they wanna behave like White ones. Institutional leaders wanna do all the shady, duplicitous shit that White leaders do and then throw it in your face that White people do it too when you get upset.
From them weird ass Black Lives Matter motherfuckers to Deion Sanders. Black institutional leaders lying to Black people to they face and then acting like they didn't just betray the trust of Black people. Like they didn't make public promises on the behalf of the institution they represent. Even worse we had Black folk defending them.
If your institutions are untrustworthy, you can't have a viable culture and support a people.
Actually they are a dime a dozen. Black coaches aren't getting hired in the Pros or the SEC.
HBCUs could and should be filling that gap in a more meaningful way.
It's not relying on ONE person. It's about ALL of US not breaking away and seeing that plan to completion.
Let's call it what it is tho. He needed to use an hbcu as a vehicle to get under the scope him of the bigger (whiter) schools to give him shot.