1 00:00:01,800 --> 00:00:20,239 Speaker 1: I was born to Donkey, the Donkey Slom Devils Club. Yes, 2 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:23,520 Speaker 1: Donkey today from Monday, December fifth, goals to everyone out 3 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:27,159 Speaker 1: there who is slandering Dion Sanders because he decided to 4 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 1: leave Jackson State University for the Colorado Buffalo. Yes, if 5 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 1: you haven't heard. After leading Jackson State to an undefeated 6 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:37,479 Speaker 1: season in their second consecutive SWACK Championship, he decided to 7 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:41,080 Speaker 1: leave Jackson State to go to Colorado and a lot 8 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:42,880 Speaker 1: of people are upset about it. Let's go to CBS 9 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:46,200 Speaker 1: Colorado for the report. Please well as excited as Colorado 10 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:49,400 Speaker 1: maybe to have Dion Sanders. Not everyone is thrilled with 11 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:52,280 Speaker 1: his decision to leave Jackson State in Mississippi, which is 12 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:56,600 Speaker 1: among the historically black colleges and Universities or HBCU. We 13 00:00:56,720 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 1: caught up with an HBCU graduate here in Denver who 14 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:03,440 Speaker 1: explained why some have mixed emotions about coach Prime. We 15 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:06,880 Speaker 1: did feel a little conflicted about it because he has 16 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:11,880 Speaker 1: such a great impact on a smaller university. However, I 17 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:15,720 Speaker 1: understand we only live in this life once, and financial 18 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:19,959 Speaker 1: opportunities and opportunities to grow. Sometimes you have to take 19 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:23,720 Speaker 1: those opportunities when they come well, sweet also told us 20 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:26,880 Speaker 1: he is grateful that Jackson State got to experience sanders 21 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:29,720 Speaker 1: star power, and he hopes that Sanders leaves behind a 22 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:32,200 Speaker 1: blueprint and keeps a channel back to the players and 23 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:36,000 Speaker 1: prospects for HBCUs who look up to him. Now, first 24 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:38,039 Speaker 1: of all, how routed me dropping a cluees bombs for 25 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 1: Jackson State winning back to BACKSWAT championships. And listen, man, 26 00:01:42,319 --> 00:01:44,840 Speaker 1: I understand if you are hurt that Dion Sanders is 27 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 1: leaving Jackson State, I totally get it. As Dion Sanders 28 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:50,400 Speaker 1: all right, the man bought so much positive attention to 29 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 1: that program, the SWAT conference and HBCUs. But instead of 30 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 1: calling the man to sell out and saying that he'd 31 00:01:57,440 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 1: sold our people a dream, how about appreciate what that 32 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:03,000 Speaker 1: man brought to the table. Okay, he got Jackson State 33 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:05,800 Speaker 1: University new practice fields, new locker rooms, he got an 34 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 1: under armed sponsoring Jackson State uniforms, countless other things that 35 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:12,520 Speaker 1: will benefit that program for years, and slander is the 36 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:15,239 Speaker 1: things he get. Deon bedn't let us know that he 37 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:18,200 Speaker 1: will entertain power five head coaching opportunities. In fact, it's 38 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:20,320 Speaker 1: the exact words where I'm gonna have to entertain. It's 39 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 1: trade up. I'd be a fool not to. And in 40 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:25,520 Speaker 1: a business like Ncuba, a football where it's so many 41 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:28,959 Speaker 1: black players but so few black coaches, I for one 42 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:31,520 Speaker 1: have no problem seeing a leader of men like Dean 43 00:02:31,639 --> 00:02:34,239 Speaker 1: Sanders go to a P five school. I love seeing 44 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:37,160 Speaker 1: us leading at HBCUs and I love seeing us leading 45 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:40,960 Speaker 1: at p WIS, and it confuses me the c y'all say, 46 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:43,919 Speaker 1: Dion is chasing the bag. I know in nineteen ninety four, 47 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:47,440 Speaker 1: Dean Sanders was doing a bad mc hammer impersonation and 48 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:49,520 Speaker 1: he put out a record call just be the money. 49 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:52,520 Speaker 1: But there's absolutely nothing about his coaching track record that 50 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:55,840 Speaker 1: shows he's about to bag. Dean has been pouring into 51 00:02:55,880 --> 00:03:00,120 Speaker 1: black kids for years, Okay, he spent several years. Is 52 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:02,320 Speaker 1: a high school football coach, al right. He opened up 53 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 1: his own charter school, Prime Prep Academy, which actually closed 54 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:08,680 Speaker 1: because of financial discress, and coaching at Jackson State for 55 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 1: one point two million dollars for four years, and he 56 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:15,800 Speaker 1: donated half his salary to help complete ongoing efforts to 57 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:19,359 Speaker 1: upgrade Jackson State's football facilities. And y'all calling that man 58 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 1: a sellout. Also, he has to pay Jackson State three 59 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 1: hundred thousand, he owes him three hundred thousand and a 60 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:28,560 Speaker 1: contract buyout. But y'all saying he's about the bag, and listen, 61 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:30,880 Speaker 1: let's talk about the bag. Okay, the bag is real. 62 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,960 Speaker 1: Twenty nine point five million for five years versus one 63 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:37,240 Speaker 1: point two million for four years. It's easy to say 64 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 1: he's chasing the bag now, But over the last decade, 65 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:42,160 Speaker 1: I haven't heard anyone say, man, Dion really is just 66 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:45,640 Speaker 1: pouring into young black men and not getting paid for it. 67 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 1: Once again, I understand folks who are hurt that he's 68 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:51,120 Speaker 1: leaving Jackson State, but all that he's a sellout, slander 69 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 1: y'all tripping? All right? That man has done so much 70 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:56,280 Speaker 1: for black kids in HPCUS and he will continue to 71 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:58,960 Speaker 1: which brings me to my next point. What have you 72 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:03,080 Speaker 1: done for an hp see you lately? Huh HBCUs are 73 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 1: chronically underfunded? Why do the state under investment lower alumni 74 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 1: contributions you know, related to lower black incomes, in black 75 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:14,160 Speaker 1: wealth and lower endowments. I think two of those are 76 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:17,360 Speaker 1: in US problem. Okay, before you criticize Dion Sanders, ask 77 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 1: yourself one question, are you doing or have done what 78 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:23,080 Speaker 1: he's already done, and what you are continuing to ask 79 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:25,560 Speaker 1: him to do? What are you saying, Uncle Charlotte? What 80 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:27,719 Speaker 1: I'm saying is when the last time your black ass 81 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:30,719 Speaker 1: donated to an HBCU. Okay, See, Dion can point to 82 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:33,240 Speaker 1: what he's done for HBCUs over the last few years 83 00:04:33,279 --> 00:04:35,920 Speaker 1: or at least Jackson State, can you see? I don't 84 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:38,240 Speaker 1: look for one man to change any situation, nor while 85 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:40,440 Speaker 1: knock anyone for how they choose to move, because there's 86 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:42,720 Speaker 1: more than one path the liberation and Dean has showed 87 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:47,159 Speaker 1: us what happens when folks actually show up to supporting HBCU. 88 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:50,160 Speaker 1: So I ask again, what have you done for an 89 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 1: HBCU lately? I never even went to any college, but 90 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:56,560 Speaker 1: I'll understand the importance of funding HBCUs. Here at the 91 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 1: Breakfast Club, we raised damn a million dollars for the 92 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 1: Third Good marsh from college fund over eight hundred thousand 93 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:05,080 Speaker 1: to be exactly, You remember that, right, NV? Yes, yes, sir, myself, 94 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:08,279 Speaker 1: Leonard mckelby, Charlomagne and God I donated a quarter million 95 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 1: dollars to my mother's and Alma Modes South Carolina State 96 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:13,360 Speaker 1: University out of my pocket. Okay, with a lot more 97 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:15,680 Speaker 1: to come, by the way. All Right, last month my 98 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:18,760 Speaker 1: podcast network, The Black Effect, iHeartRadio and Nissan, we had 99 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:21,280 Speaker 1: to thrill a possibility smit. We did that just for 100 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:24,560 Speaker 1: HBCU students. Okay, we flew them out because we understand 101 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:27,600 Speaker 1: the importance of pouring into HBCU students and be what's 102 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:29,839 Speaker 1: the initiative you were doing? You was just that, Uh well, 103 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 1: he was just that when you broadcasted from there. We 104 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:35,120 Speaker 1: did strongly together with Pepsine Deritos where they go to 105 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:39,719 Speaker 1: different schools, and we also did a documentary schools HBCUs 106 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:42,160 Speaker 1: right where we go to different colleges and broadcast live. 107 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:47,640 Speaker 1: We were in We did Saying Augustines, We did Bethune Cookman, 108 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 1: we did Hampton, we did Howard, we did a bunch 109 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:54,440 Speaker 1: of universities, and we're gonna continue. My point is, ask yourself, 110 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:57,839 Speaker 1: what are you doing or have done for HBCUs before 111 00:05:57,839 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 1: you criticize Dion. You were just like the people Dion 112 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 1: was talking about when he first took the job. You 113 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:05,440 Speaker 1: got Twitter fingers, but no action behind those tweets. Let's 114 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:07,880 Speaker 1: listen to Dion on sixty minutes on why he decided 115 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 1: to take that job at Jackson State. Listen, salary of 116 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:13,240 Speaker 1: five hundred thousand dollars was less than five percent of 117 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:16,800 Speaker 1: what one state over, Alabama pays its coach Nick Saban. 118 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:20,480 Speaker 1: Yet Jackson State might be the hottest program in America, 119 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:25,400 Speaker 1: coaching talented recruits and winning games and equal measure powered by, yes, 120 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:28,320 Speaker 1: the style, but also the substance of the man who 121 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:31,839 Speaker 1: now calls himself Coach Prime. Sanders took the job at 122 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:35,960 Speaker 1: Jackson State three months after George Floyd's murderer timing, he 123 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:40,480 Speaker 1: says that was no coincidence. It was relevant because slot 124 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:43,000 Speaker 1: of folks sit back on them with Twitter fingers and 125 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:45,520 Speaker 1: talk about what they're gonna do, and I wanted to 126 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:50,080 Speaker 1: go do it. Do what change lives, change the perspective 127 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:55,159 Speaker 1: of HBCU football. Make everyone step up to the plate 128 00:06:55,240 --> 00:07:01,520 Speaker 1: and do us right by these kids. Dion did job, man, Okay, 129 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:03,159 Speaker 1: he did his job. Did we have the other clip 130 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:04,919 Speaker 1: where he said he would entertain the problem? Me? Hear 131 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:07,920 Speaker 1: that one too. The cinematic version of the story has 132 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:10,720 Speaker 1: Coach Prime sticking it out at Jackson State as the 133 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:13,600 Speaker 1: program grows on par with those of the Power five. 134 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:17,960 Speaker 1: The reality it may not be long before he takes 135 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:20,400 Speaker 1: his gold whistle to a school that doesn't need to 136 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:25,560 Speaker 1: beg for resources. What happens when power five school says, 137 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 1: give us a number, we'll make it work. I'm gonna 138 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:29,840 Speaker 1: have to entertain it. You are, yes, I'm gonna have 139 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:32,960 Speaker 1: to entertain it. Straight up? Why I would be a 140 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:36,040 Speaker 1: fool not to. Dion did his job, man, and he 141 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:37,960 Speaker 1: told y'all from the beginning everything he was gonna do. 142 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:40,440 Speaker 1: He was gonna change the perspective of HBCU football. He 143 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:42,440 Speaker 1: did that, and he was gonna entertain a Power five 144 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:44,800 Speaker 1: job if he came. He did that too, Okay, but 145 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:47,120 Speaker 1: he laid the blueprint. He showed us what's possible. It's 146 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:49,600 Speaker 1: up to us as consumers and folks that are alumni 147 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:53,120 Speaker 1: to keep the movement going because these HBCUs don't have 148 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:55,560 Speaker 1: the resources to support these kids are coaches on the 149 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:57,960 Speaker 1: level of a Dion Sanders for that matter. In order 150 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:00,520 Speaker 1: to build and sustain these programs, we have to support them. 151 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:03,160 Speaker 1: And if you never donated to an HBCU, but you've 152 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:06,840 Speaker 1: being critical of Deon Sanders, shut the fever. Okay, not 153 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 1: to mention him being the first coach from an HBCU 154 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:11,680 Speaker 1: to get a Power five job. If he had success 155 00:08:11,680 --> 00:08:13,960 Speaker 1: in Colorado, it'll be a great thing, not just for him, 156 00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:16,760 Speaker 1: but it might open up other opportunities for HBCU coaches 157 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:20,200 Speaker 1: at Power five schools. Maybe maybe, because let's be real, 158 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:22,000 Speaker 1: a lot of this is just happening because it's the 159 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:24,200 Speaker 1: great Dion Sanders. All Right, that man said he had 160 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 1: a calling to go to Jackson State. He went to 161 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:30,520 Speaker 1: Jackson State after having just experienced as a high school coach. Okay, 162 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:33,600 Speaker 1: and after two back to BACKSWAT championships. I think it's 163 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:36,679 Speaker 1: more than fair to say, job well done. That's all 164 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:39,120 Speaker 1: we need to be saying about Dion. Job well done. 165 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:41,720 Speaker 1: He answered the call God had for him, and everyone 166 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:45,440 Speaker 1: was rewarded for it Jackson State. The profile of HBCUs 167 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:48,839 Speaker 1: was raised, and Dion, in an unprecedented historic move, went 168 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:51,880 Speaker 1: from an HBCU coaching job to a Power five What 169 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:56,440 Speaker 1: more do you want from Dion Sanders? The last three years, 170 00:08:56,480 --> 00:08:58,840 Speaker 1: the man gave his all the Jackson State. The man 171 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:04,079 Speaker 1: lost toes at Jackson State, literally two toes amputated. He 172 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:07,200 Speaker 1: came in ten toes down, he left eight toes down, 173 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:10,200 Speaker 1: but still standing strong. Nonetheless, can we listen to what 174 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:12,840 Speaker 1: Dion had to say, in regard to leaving Jackson State 175 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 1: and accepting the job at Colorado, You've made a tremendous 176 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:18,679 Speaker 1: impact of the HBCUs. I guess how difficult was the 177 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:22,360 Speaker 1: decision to leave what you started there? Tremendous because it 178 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:25,520 Speaker 1: wasn't about the lexus and ohs or the wins and losses. 179 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:28,720 Speaker 1: It was about those kids. Usually a coach is terminated 180 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:32,760 Speaker 1: or elevating. Thank God, I'm elevating. But still the journey 181 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:37,680 Speaker 1: is not complete. Maybe God is really using me to 182 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:41,240 Speaker 1: open doors at this level. The thing that alarms me 183 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:44,280 Speaker 1: the most is just because I'm leaving Jackson, they think 184 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:46,959 Speaker 1: that I'm leaving African Americans. I don't know if you 185 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:51,880 Speaker 1: notice not, but I'm Black. I can never leave who 186 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:53,439 Speaker 1: I am, or what I am, or how I am 187 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:55,559 Speaker 1: or how I go about being that. So it is 188 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:57,800 Speaker 1: still my task of looking at locker room and see 189 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:01,319 Speaker 1: sixty five to seventy percent of African America men, trying 190 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:03,200 Speaker 1: to help them get to the next level, as well 191 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:05,840 Speaker 1: as all the others. My calling is for young men, 192 00:10:06,760 --> 00:10:10,880 Speaker 1: young women, and people of all walks of life, all 193 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:15,360 Speaker 1: social climates, and all ethnicities. That's my calling. My calling 194 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:18,320 Speaker 1: is not built on a location, It's built on the destination. 195 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:20,240 Speaker 1: Now that was good, you're supposed to clap for that. 196 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:24,360 Speaker 1: It's still black men to be led on a power 197 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:26,920 Speaker 1: five level, and I'm glad that they're being led by 198 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:28,720 Speaker 1: a god fearing black man. And when it comes to 199 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:31,400 Speaker 1: Dion Saying is leaving Jackson State, don't be sad that 200 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:34,320 Speaker 1: it is over. Be happy because it happened. Please let 201 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:36,640 Speaker 1: me mem give everyone who has slander for Dion Saying 202 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:40,240 Speaker 1: is the biggest he haw he haw he ha. You 203 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:42,439 Speaker 1: stupid mother, Are you dumb?