Ep. 720 - My honest thoughts on Deion Sanders going to coach at the University of Colorado.

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Over the past few days I've sat back and observed a WIDE range of opinions being expressed about Deion Sanders leaving his HBCU coaching job at Jackson State for a new position at a struggling predominantly white institution. And I've seen EVERYTHING you could imagine be expressed from what seemed like genuine anger and rage to excitement and encouragement for him - and everything in between.Today I want to unpack and explain my own thoughts on the matter. First and foremost, I'm just glad that he ever chose to spend the past 3 years at an HBCU. And he clearly poured his heart and soul into the program. He was brilliant. Do I wish he would've stayed longer? Sure. But I don't know his long term goals and dreams. Clearly he has other aspirations.

But more than anything, as a super fan of sports, I think what Deion Sanders just did is EXACTLY what every single college coach in sports does. They all promise parents and students and programs that they will be there forever - and eventually they leave for something else. In fact, it happened about a dozen times this past week alone.

I just guess all of hoped Coach Prime would be different. Let me unpack and explain it.

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Shaun

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0:37.0	Honda, the power of dreams.
0:40.0	You don't even have to be a sports fan to have heard the news that Deon Sanders
0:46.0	just took a new coaching job at the University of Colorado.
0:51.0	And it's a big deal, particularly in my circles, where thousands of my friends and followers,
0:58.0	we all went to historically black colleges.
1:01.0	So to have Deon Sanders be the coach at Jackson State University,
1:05.0	an HBCU, which is a black college,
1:08.0	it's meant a lot to us and to Jackson State, but to all of the HBCU football and sports and graduate community.
1:18.0	So people have a lot of really strong feelings about the move that he just made
1:25.0	from Jackson State to the University of Colorado.
1:29.0	I want to unpack and explain the move why it's a big deal
1:33.0	and just give you my honest earnest thoughts if you care to hear them.
1:36.0	Glad to be back. This is Sean King and you're listening to...
1:41.0	The Breakdown.
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