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DONKEY: Coach Prime Deion Sanders Slandered For Leaving Jackson State For Colorado · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: I was born to Donkey, the Donkey Slom Devils Club. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: Donkey today from Monday, December fifth, goals to everyone out
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  Speaker 1: there who is slandering Dion Sanders because he decided to
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  Speaker 1: leave Jackson State University for the Colorado Buffalo. Yes, if
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  Speaker 1: you haven't heard. After leading Jackson State to an undefeated
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  Speaker 1: season in their second consecutive SWACK Championship, he decided to
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  Speaker 1: leave Jackson State to go to Colorado and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people are upset about it. Let's go to CBS
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  Speaker 1: Colorado for the report. Please well as excited as Colorado
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  Speaker 1: maybe to have Dion Sanders. Not everyone is thrilled with
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  Speaker 1: his decision to leave Jackson State in Mississippi, which is
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  Speaker 1: among the historically black colleges and Universities or HBCU. We
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  Speaker 1: caught up with an HBCU graduate here in Denver who
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  Speaker 1: explained why some have mixed emotions about coach Prime. We
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  Speaker 1: did feel a little conflicted about it because he has
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  Speaker 1: such a great impact on a smaller university. However, I
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  Speaker 1: understand we only live in this life once, and financial
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  Speaker 1: opportunities and opportunities to grow. Sometimes you have to take
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  Speaker 1: those opportunities when they come well, sweet also told us
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  Speaker 1: he is grateful that Jackson State got to experience sanders
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  Speaker 1: star power, and he hopes that Sanders leaves behind a
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  Speaker 1: blueprint and keeps a channel back to the players and
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  Speaker 1: prospects for HBCUs who look up to him. Now, first
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  Speaker 1: of all, how routed me dropping a cluees bombs for
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  Speaker 1: Jackson State winning back to BACKSWAT championships. And listen, man,
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  Speaker 1: I understand if you are hurt that Dion Sanders is
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  Speaker 1: leaving Jackson State, I totally get it. As Dion Sanders
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  Speaker 1: all right, the man bought so much positive attention to
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  Speaker 1: that program, the SWAT conference and HBCUs. But instead of
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  Speaker 1: calling the man to sell out and saying that he'd
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  Speaker 1: sold our people a dream, how about appreciate what that
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  Speaker 1: man brought to the table. Okay, he got Jackson State
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  Speaker 1: University new practice fields, new locker rooms, he got an
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  Speaker 1: under armed sponsoring Jackson State uniforms, countless other things that
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  Speaker 1: will benefit that program for years, and slander is the
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  Speaker 1: things he get. Deon bedn't let us know that he
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  Speaker 1: will entertain power five head coaching opportunities. In fact, it's
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  Speaker 1: the exact words where I'm gonna have to entertain. It's
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  Speaker 1: trade up. I'd be a fool not to. And in
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  Speaker 1: a business like Ncuba, a football where it's so many
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  Speaker 1: black players but so few black coaches, I for one
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  Speaker 1: have no problem seeing a leader of men like Dean
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  Speaker 1: Sanders go to a P five school. I love seeing
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  Speaker 1: us leading at HBCUs and I love seeing us leading
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  Speaker 1: at p WIS, and it confuses me the c y'all say,
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  Speaker 1: Dion is chasing the bag. I know in nineteen ninety four,
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  Speaker 1: Dean Sanders was doing a bad mc hammer impersonation and
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  Speaker 1: he put out a record call just be the money.
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  Speaker 1: But there's absolutely nothing about his coaching track record that
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  Speaker 1: shows he's about to bag. Dean has been pouring into
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  Speaker 1: black kids for years, Okay, he spent several years. Is
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  Speaker 1: a high school football coach, al right. He opened up
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  Speaker 1: his own charter school, Prime Prep Academy, which actually closed
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  Speaker 1: because of financial discress, and coaching at Jackson State for
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  Speaker 1: one point two million dollars for four years, and he
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  Speaker 1: donated half his salary to help complete ongoing efforts to
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  Speaker 1: upgrade Jackson State's football facilities. And y'all calling that man
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  Speaker 1: a sellout. Also, he has to pay Jackson State three
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  Speaker 1: hundred thousand, he owes him three hundred thousand and a
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  Speaker 1: contract buyout. But y'all saying he's about the bag, and listen,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about the bag. Okay, the bag is real.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty nine point five million for five years versus one
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  Speaker 1: point two million for four years. It's easy to say
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  Speaker 1: he's chasing the bag now, But over the last decade,
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  Speaker 1: I haven't heard anyone say, man, Dion really is just
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  Speaker 1: pouring into young black men and not getting paid for it.
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  Speaker 1: Once again, I understand folks who are hurt that he's
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  Speaker 1: leaving Jackson State, but all that he's a sellout, slander
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  Speaker 1: y'all tripping? All right? That man has done so much
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  Speaker 1: for black kids in HPCUS and he will continue to
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  Speaker 1: which brings me to my next point. What have you
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  Speaker 1: done for an hp see you lately? Huh HBCUs are
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  Speaker 1: chronically underfunded? Why do the state under investment lower alumni
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  Speaker 1: contributions you know, related to lower black incomes, in black
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  Speaker 1: wealth and lower endowments. I think two of those are
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  Speaker 1: in US problem. Okay, before you criticize Dion Sanders, ask
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  Speaker 1: yourself one question, are you doing or have done what
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  Speaker 1: he's already done, and what you are continuing to ask
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  Speaker 1: him to do? What are you saying, Uncle Charlotte? What
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying is when the last time your black ass
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  Speaker 1: donated to an HBCU. Okay, See, Dion can point to
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  Speaker 1: what he's done for HBCUs over the last few years
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  Speaker 1: or at least Jackson State, can you see? I don't
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  Speaker 1: look for one man to change any situation, nor while
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  Speaker 1: knock anyone for how they choose to move, because there's
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  Speaker 1: more than one path the liberation and Dean has showed
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  Speaker 1: us what happens when folks actually show up to supporting HBCU.
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  Speaker 1: So I ask again, what have you done for an
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  Speaker 1: HBCU lately? I never even went to any college, but
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  Speaker 1: I'll understand the importance of funding HBCUs. Here at the
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  Speaker 1: Breakfast Club, we raised damn a million dollars for the
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  Speaker 1: Third Good marsh from college fund over eight hundred thousand
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  Speaker 1: to be exactly, You remember that, right, NV? Yes, yes, sir, myself,
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  Speaker 1: Leonard mckelby, Charlomagne and God I donated a quarter million
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  Speaker 1: dollars to my mother's and Alma Modes South Carolina State
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  Speaker 1: University out of my pocket. Okay, with a lot more
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  Speaker 1: to come, by the way. All Right, last month my
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  Speaker 1: podcast network, The Black Effect, iHeartRadio and Nissan, we had
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  Speaker 1: to thrill a possibility smit. We did that just for
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  Speaker 1: HBCU students. Okay, we flew them out because we understand
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  Speaker 1: the importance of pouring into HBCU students and be what's
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  Speaker 1: the initiative you were doing? You was just that, Uh well,
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  Speaker 1: he was just that when you broadcasted from there. We
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  Speaker 1: did strongly together with Pepsine Deritos where they go to
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  Speaker 1: different schools, and we also did a documentary schools HBCUs
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  Speaker 1: right where we go to different colleges and broadcast live.
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  Speaker 1: We were in We did Saying Augustines, We did Bethune Cookman,
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  Speaker 1: we did Hampton, we did Howard, we did a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of universities, and we're gonna continue. My point is, ask yourself,
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  Speaker 1: what are you doing or have done for HBCUs before
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  Speaker 1: you criticize Dion. You were just like the people Dion
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  Speaker 1: was talking about when he first took the job. You
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  Speaker 1: got Twitter fingers, but no action behind those tweets. Let's
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  Speaker 1: listen to Dion on sixty minutes on why he decided
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  Speaker 1: to take that job at Jackson State. Listen, salary of
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  Speaker 1: five hundred thousand dollars was less than five percent of
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  Speaker 1: what one state over, Alabama pays its coach Nick Saban.
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  Speaker 1: Yet Jackson State might be the hottest program in America,
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  Speaker 1: coaching talented recruits and winning games and equal measure powered by, yes,
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  Speaker 1: the style, but also the substance of the man who
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  Speaker 1: now calls himself Coach Prime. Sanders took the job at
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  Speaker 1: Jackson State three months after George Floyd's murderer timing, he
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  Speaker 1: says that was no coincidence. It was relevant because slot
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  Speaker 1: of folks sit back on them with Twitter fingers and
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  Speaker 1: talk about what they're gonna do, and I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: go do it. Do what change lives, change the perspective
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  Speaker 1: of HBCU football. Make everyone step up to the plate
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  Speaker 1: and do us right by these kids. Dion did job, man, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: he did his job. Did we have the other clip
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  Speaker 1: where he said he would entertain the problem? Me? Hear
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  Speaker 1: that one too. The cinematic version of the story has
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  Speaker 1: Coach Prime sticking it out at Jackson State as the
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  Speaker 1: program grows on par with those of the Power five.
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  Speaker 1: The reality it may not be long before he takes
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  Speaker 1: his gold whistle to a school that doesn't need to
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  Speaker 1: beg for resources. What happens when power five school says,
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  Speaker 1: give us a number, we'll make it work. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to entertain it. You are, yes, I'm gonna have
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  Speaker 1: to entertain it. Straight up? Why I would be a
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  Speaker 1: fool not to. Dion did his job, man, and he
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  Speaker 1: told y'all from the beginning everything he was gonna do.
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  Speaker 1: He was gonna change the perspective of HBCU football. He
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  Speaker 1: did that, and he was gonna entertain a Power five
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  Speaker 1: job if he came. He did that too, Okay, but
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  Speaker 1: he laid the blueprint. He showed us what's possible. It's
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  Speaker 1: up to us as consumers and folks that are alumni
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  Speaker 1: to keep the movement going because these HBCUs don't have
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  Speaker 1: the resources to support these kids are coaches on the
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  Speaker 1: level of a Dion Sanders for that matter. In order
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  Speaker 1: to build and sustain these programs, we have to support them.
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  Speaker 1: And if you never donated to an HBCU, but you've
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  Speaker 1: being critical of Deon Sanders, shut the fever. Okay, not
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  Speaker 1: to mention him being the first coach from an HBCU
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  Speaker 1: to get a Power five job. If he had success
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  Speaker 1: in Colorado, it'll be a great thing, not just for him,
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  Speaker 1: but it might open up other opportunities for HBCU coaches
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  Speaker 1: at Power five schools. Maybe maybe, because let's be real,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of this is just happening because it's the
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  Speaker 1: great Dion Sanders. All Right, that man said he had
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  Speaker 1: a calling to go to Jackson State. He went to
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  Speaker 1: Jackson State after having just experienced as a high school coach. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: and after two back to BACKSWAT championships. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: more than fair to say, job well done. That's all
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  Speaker 1: we need to be saying about Dion. Job well done.
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  Speaker 1: He answered the call God had for him, and everyone
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  Speaker 1: was rewarded for it Jackson State. The profile of HBCUs
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  Speaker 1: was raised, and Dion, in an unprecedented historic move, went
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  Speaker 1: from an HBCU coaching job to a Power five What
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  Speaker 1: more do you want from Dion Sanders? The last three years,
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  Speaker 1: the man gave his all the Jackson State. The man
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  Speaker 1: lost toes at Jackson State, literally two toes amputated. He
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  Speaker 1: came in ten toes down, he left eight toes down,
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  Speaker 1: but still standing strong. Nonetheless, can we listen to what
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  Speaker 1: Dion had to say, in regard to leaving Jackson State
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  Speaker 1: and accepting the job at Colorado, You've made a tremendous
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  Speaker 1: impact of the HBCUs. I guess how difficult was the
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  Speaker 1: decision to leave what you started there? Tremendous because it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't about the lexus and ohs or the wins and losses.
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  Speaker 1: It was about those kids. Usually a coach is terminated
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  Speaker 1: or elevating. Thank God, I'm elevating. But still the journey
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  Speaker 1: is not complete. Maybe God is really using me to
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  Speaker 1: open doors at this level. The thing that alarms me
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  Speaker 1: the most is just because I'm leaving Jackson, they think
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  Speaker 1: that I'm leaving African Americans. I don't know if you
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  Speaker 1: notice not, but I'm Black. I can never leave who
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  Speaker 1: I am, or what I am, or how I am
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  Speaker 1: or how I go about being that. So it is
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  Speaker 1: still my task of looking at locker room and see
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  Speaker 1: sixty five to seventy percent of African America men, trying
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  Speaker 1: to help them get to the next level, as well
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  Speaker 1: as all the others. My calling is for young men,
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  Speaker 1: young women, and people of all walks of life, all
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  Speaker 1: social climates, and all ethnicities. That's my calling. My calling
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  Speaker 1: is not built on a location, It's built on the destination.
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  Speaker 1: Now that was good, you're supposed to clap for that.
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  Speaker 1: It's still black men to be led on a power
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  Speaker 1: five level, and I'm glad that they're being led by
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  Speaker 1: a god fearing black man. And when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: Dion Saying is leaving Jackson State, don't be sad that
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  Speaker 1: it is over. Be happy because it happened. Please let
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  Speaker 1: me mem give everyone who has slander for Dion Saying
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  Speaker 1: is the biggest he haw he haw he ha. You
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  Speaker 1: stupid mother, Are you dumb?