A Word: HBCU Football Blues

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🗓️ 21 December 2014

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Former NFL star Deion Sanders turned the struggling Jackson State University Tigers into a winning team, and brought a national spotlight to football at historically Black colleges and universities. That’s why his decision to take a coaching job at the University of Colorado sparked a debate among HBCU fans. On today’s episode of A Word, Jason Johnson is joined by University of Houston Professor Billy Hawkins about why Sanders’ time at JSU had such an impact, and whether HBCUs can retain some of the momentum that Sanders helped to build. Guest: University of Houston Professor Billy Hawkins, author of The New Plantation: Black Athletes, College Sports, and Predominantly White NCAA Institutions. Podcast production by Kristie Taiwo-Makanjuola You can skip all the ads in A Word by joining Slate Plus. Sign up now at slate.com/awordplus for just $1 for your first month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a word, a podcast from Slate. I'm your host, Jason Johnson.
0:07.0	Football legend Dion Sanders shook the college football world by announcing that he's leaving historically black Jackson State
0:14.4	University to coach at the University of Colorado.
0:17.4	It Sanders a smart operator or a sellout and what does the move mean for Black
0:21.6	College Athletics?
0:23.0	I can't deny, you know, this idea that he's human, right?
0:27.1	And you know, there's a better offer.
0:29.4	He has to take that under consideration.
0:31.8	Dion Sanders and the future of Black College athletics coming up on a word with me,
0:36.1	Jason Johnson.
0:37.1	Stay with us.
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1:07.5	Welcome to a word, a podcast about race and politics and everything else. I'm your host Jason Johnson Hall of Fame football star Dion Sanders shook the world of college sports in 2020 when he
1:14.5	announced that he would coach the struggling program at Jackson State University
1:18.0	in Mississippi. Sanders brought major recruits, on-field success, and a national spotlight to the
1:23.3	JSU Tigers. See to describe taking on the job at Jackson State as a
1:27.7	religious mission and a 60 minutes interview earlier this year.
1:31.4	I truly believe with all my heart and soul that
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