Deion Sanders would entertain Energy 5 head teaching alternatives

Deion Sanders believes God known as him to Jackson State — known as acquire, in actual fact, he instructed CBS' 60 Minutes in an interview that aired Sunday.

However whereas "Coach Prime" deeply believes in his mission to boost the profile of Jackson State and HBCU soccer packages as a complete, he additionally bluntly said his openness to job affords from Energy 5 colleges. 

"I am gonna need to entertain it," Sanders mentioned. "Straight up. I might be a idiot to not."

Whereas Sanders, an NFL legend who additionally performed within the MLB, doesn't have many private monetary issues — one web site estimated his internet value at $40 million — he desires to supply alternatives for his assistant coaches to obtain larger salaries. 

That is only one method during which Sanders highlighted the disparities between Energy 5 soccer packages and their HBCU counterparts. Jackson State's soccer finances is barely $4 million, in line with the 60 Minutes report. By comparability, Alabama will reportedly pay head coach Nick Saban $10.7 million this season alone.

Sanders has been arduous at work upgrading Jackson State's amenities, from getting Walmart to construct a brand new soccer apply discipline to securing main model sponsorships from the likes of Pepsi and American Airways. However a number of structural challenges stay.

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Jackson State resides in Jackson, Miss., which has obtained nationwide consideration attributable to a current water disaster in addition to a scandal at close by Southern Mississippi the place a number of state and college officers — together with alum Brett Farve, Sanders' fellow NFL legend — have been implicated in a scheme to embezzle charity funds.

"I am not into politics, however I'm into individuals, and I simply really feel as if our individuals needs to be taken care of quite a bit higher," Sanders instructed 60 minutes. " darn properly there is a parallel with HBCUs and assets [in the broader community]. Underserved and ignored."

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As frank as Sanders was about his openness to a Energy 5 alternative, he additionally expressed hope that Jackson State may ultimately get extra assets to permit him to maintain constructing this system there.

"I am hoping a political determine or somebody, some billionaire on the market, is saying, ' what? I am gonna guess on Prime, man,'" Sanders mentioned. "'Let me go assist that program as a result of I simply wanna see what it might be like if he had the assets these different colleges would have.'"

Sanders additionally appeared to slam the door on any willingness to return to the NFL as a head coach.

"Not one bit," he instructed 60 Minutes. "It is arduous for me to teach an individual that makes some huge cash that doesn't really love the sport that blessed me."

As for a Energy 5 college, now we wait and see.

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