Deion Sanders Is Fueling The Rise Of HBCU Football
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🗓️ 15 June 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Two years ago, Deion Sanders left the comfort of his expansive home outside of Dallas -- a place he calls "Lake Prime" -- to become the next head football coach at Jackson State, the historically black university in Jackson, Mississippi. At times, his welcome speech felt more like a Sunday sermon than a press conference, and he pledged to do everything he could to restore the program to its former glory. Now, after a conference championship and a recruiting season that saw him snag the country's #1 ranked player, Sanders has invited unsupported accusations of cheating. Today, reporter Jean-Jacques Taylor, who recently wrote a cover story about Sanders for Sports Illustrated, joins us to explain how "Coach Prime" is fueling a resurgence of HBCU football -- and why some are trying to take the shine off his success.
Read Jean-Jacques Taylor's full story: https://www.si.com/college/2022/06/09/deion-sanders-fuels-rise-of-hbcu-football-daily-cover
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| 1:11.0 | He outlined his very ambitious vision for the program. |
| 1:32.2 | And there were times where the speech felt less like an introductory press conference for |
| 1:35.9 | a college football coach and more like a Sunday sermon. |
| 1:39.1 | Two years later, Sanders has already delivered on much of what he promised, but with his early |
| 2:02.2 | success, especially in the world of recruiting, has come finger pointing and accusations. |
| 2:07.8 | It's like a smear campaign in politics. |
| 2:11.4 | You win, they lose, so now they want to attack your credibility in your character who you |
| 2:16.7 | are as a football coach of a major university. |
| 2:20.6 | Today reporter Jean-Jacques Taylor explains how Sanders has reignited Jackson State and |
| 2:26.8 | HBCU football and simultaneously sparked a debate that goes into the very foundations |
| 2:32.3 | of college football. |
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