Deion Sanders would entertain Energy 5 head teaching alternatives

Deion Sanders believes God referred to as him to Jackson State – referred to as accumulate, in truth, he advised 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 an entire, he additionally bluntly acknowledged his openness to job affords from Energy 5 faculties. 

"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 web value at $40 million – he desires to supply alternatives for his assistant coaches to obtain larger salaries. 

That is only one manner during which Sanders highlighted the disparities between Energy 5 soccer packages and their HBCU counterparts. In response to the 60 Minutes report, Jackson State's soccer funds is simply $4 million. By comparability, Alabama will reportedly pay head coach Nick Saban $10.7 million this season alone.

Sanders has been onerous at work upgrading Jackson State's services, from getting Walmart to construct a brand new soccer apply area 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 acquired nationwide consideration because of a current water disaster in addition to a scandal at close by Southern Mississippi the place a number of state and faculty 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 folks, and I simply really feel as if our folks must be taken care of rather a lot higher," Sanders advised 60 minutes. "You recognize darn effectively 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 might 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, 'You recognize 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 faculties 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 advised 60 minutes. "It is onerous for me to teach an individual that makes some huge cash that doesn't actually love the sport that blessed me."

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

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