Deion Sanders expands on decision to leave Jackson State for Colorado
The Colorado Buffaloes made the biggest splash of the offseason by landing Deion Sanders to be the next head coach of the program. Coach Prime did marvelous things at Jackson State, but making the jump to a Power Five program was too much to pass up.
Sanders recently hopped on “The Pivot Podcast” and gave some more insight into his decision to leave Jackson State (h/t J.T. Keith of Mississippi Clarion Ledger).
“It was the ideology, the thought process, the forward thinking. It was meeting me at the crossroad. That’s what was involved in that…And sooner or later you have to look in the mirror and say, are they going to get there? Do they even want to get there? And I had to ask those questions and really be honest with them, with me and myself as well as my staff. The Bible says, ‘Thy rod and thy staff comfort me.’ They can’t be comforted making $60,000 the rest of their lives, or $70,000. Not that that is bad. For everybody making $50,000-$60,000, I apologize. I don’t mean to demean you. But as a college football coach, that’s not good and we have to do better than that.”
The HBCUs have been on the rise over the past few years, but Sanders had some reservations about the future of the program going forward.
And, despite what some may believe, Sanders did not make the jump to Colorado for the money.
“It seems hilarious to me that God could call me collect to come to Jackson, but he could not call me collect to go. See, that is the problem with us men, sometimes we out stay our time at certain places and certain things because we want to leave when we want to leave, not when we need to leave.”
Nonetheless, all eyes will be on Coach Prime and the Buffs despite winning just one game in 2022.
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