I want to know this.
Jimbo kind of gave us a hint.
There's, there's something there.
Every newspaper in Texas every media Outlet in Texas. If you
got an investigative arm, get to work.
Here's some boots.
Here's some gloves. Put your hard hat on.
Let's go because Jimbo had just heated up for you.
Carmen Phillips, the floor is yours.
Well, first of all,
there is a great story,
that's bubbling below the surface here
that is full in humor and jokes that I would like to shine.
Some light on,
is that me and Steve wash were tweeting about this earlier.
If you're an ACC you today
you should be out here really doing some really good. Recruiting
homecoming, tickets sales should be going up today
because we should be doing
All of the things that we can do possibly
on social media or broad to shine light on my hbcus.
Because today is one of those days where you can look at
the SEC and the Nick Saban's in the Jimbo features of the world and
Dabo Swinney, that's not leave him out of this. And say look,
this is how they really think about you.
Come on back home,
which is why I have the shirt on and I represent my alma
mater right now because the shot that was thrown at Deion
Sanders and Jackson State. Is the thing that,
you know, isn't going to get as much press as it should.
Because this Jimbo
and this is Nick Saban thing, you know, newsworthy. It's
because we haven't seen coaches do anything like this. Like
this is the closest thing we've seen since what,
John Cheney and John Calipari and they got into it back in
the day. Like
I know Michael highly isn't, you know,
feels differently as me and you do like about confrontation, but
if you say that about another
Rome in a press conference. Like today,
then when they meet on the field of this season,
iron prepared in hope there would be some smoke
home because when you
use words like that there needs to be some,
some little bit of furniture moving going on.
But as you said, as I was talking about earlier, like
listen, I have been one of the biggest critics of Deion
Sanders and his grandstanding, and when he's done at Jack and
Satan, hbcus and I will continue to be,
with his clown behavior that. I feel he's done.
But I will stand with Dianna support him on this. Yes, this
shot and the assessor portion that you can't get the number
one player to flit from for the state to Jackson State when
Florida state has been trashed the
last couple years. Like, we're not even talking about how far
to stay with even able to recruit the number one player
with the product, they put on the field lately, but the fact
that black people just may not
want to go to a school where they are celebrated and
championed and love. That is the Shoe
that we should be talking about more
because yeah, like I said earlier, I will side on dealing
with this because
Jackson State and got the budget Jackson State don't have
the boosters
Jackson State doesn't have all of these things that Nick Saban
is asserting that they had to even pull something
like this
earlier. Like got like, God forbid, that black people can't
have nice things and buy nice things. I mean, you know,
affectionately the number one Prospect in the country.
Referred to me as a thing. My biggest issue is property
referring to them as being bought
and no, look. It's not like, it's Deion Sanders.
It's like maybe trying to conjure hundreds of want to go
play for Deion Sanders. You know what I'm saying? Like once
upon a time like what like what like what we fooling this
entire sport was built on the backs of black people in
general and hbcus in particular, listen, rest in
peace, and he rest
in peace, Eddie Robinson,
rest in peace Grammy, Western,
rest in peace. All of the all of the Hall of Famers.
It was the National Football League was built on,
okay that came out of hbcus. So for him to sit there and turn,
and look down his nose
as if oh, well, the only reason he would go to someplace like
Jackson state is because they paid him is most definitely
insulting and fellas. It. Can, we
can we just add? This is my, we want to get historical here if
you want to be historically accurate.
Let's not forget what we're talking about. We're talking
about the University of Alabama. There's some players
on Alabama if they're of a certain age if their parents
are of a certain age,
their parents remember,
okay, here we go, their parents
alive. And well remember when Alabama
had its first black player,
Michael
Michael Michael
22 days ago. John Mitchell,
I told the dimension to it. Yeah,
how about that? For Full Circle? I mean to cut you off
but I'm just saying like first black player. Yeah. I talked to
him the other day. Okay. It was not that long ago,
where Sam bam Cunningham,
as some people have said,
did more for integration and 60 minutes.
Then the civil rights movement did in 60 years
and remove Alabama,
but it hit like it goes a little deeper than that little.
Yeah, like, let's think about it.
Lord. Like you said, my Lord forbid. Somebody black. Black
wants to go to an HBCU, like Jack and state. A program that
is produced more Hall of Famers, didn't serve the top
programs in the SEC,
and if we want to tie this to the bigger picture,
I remember when I was at the New York daily news back in
like 2018. I did this interview with this kid and you might
have heard of like the car cave on Thibodeau when he went on
a visit to FAMU.
He went on The Unofficial and I talked to him about it because
it cost some, you know, some national headlines and it was
bubbling under the surface a little bit, but didn't really
blow up and in that interview cave on broke it down to me.
And
this one he was in high school. He was like, look,
I didn't go over to Sam because I went to this camp at Florida,
State went across the street. He was like, no I wanted to see
what fan was about. He's like, I'm a California Kid. We don't
have hbcus on the west coast.
Now look, I might not wind up choosing Sam and he wound up
going to Oregon but he was like If you were a three or four
star, and knees, PW eyes, and these big programs are
overlooking, you're trying to change your position.
Go to an HBCU. He said this to a national publication like
a New York daily news when I was there. So this notion of that's
been getting a lot of play, the last couple of years about
hbcus and top athletes. Like let's go back and give
K bontempo though his props because he was on it years ago,
but we saw this in college basketball a couple weeks ago.
Y'all remember when Isaiah Wong situation happened at
the Diversity of Miami
when we thought that he had, you know, he was going to
potentially transfer if he can get more ni L at Miami and then
the world blew up because how dare
of Player 1 to potentially or allegedly,
renegotiate, his contract and his ni L deal that he outplayed
given that he was the only player on a team that went to
the elite eight that had made all-conference in the ACC, two
years in a row,
and was one of the biggest reasons why they made it.
Lee date and I was at that sweet 16
and Italy day in Chicago.
I covered those two games.
So for we saw with this was going to do a couple of weeks
ago with that situation and look. We know what this is
going to be last July. When ni L became National.
It was only a matter of time before discussions, like this
started happening and coaches, start doing these things
because we knew when the workforce that looks like us
was going to start getting money. Oh, things are about to
change. So
we are all We are all United. We're presenting a united front
here. So do not want to distract Too Much from the task
at hand, which is calling attention
to, Nick Saban's hypocrisy
and is insulting remarks regarding the quality of
an HBCU education or athletic participation. Having said all
that
feel like I'd be remiss if I didn't double back carne and
ask you about this. So-called clown Behavior. You identified
from DIY. What's your issue with Dion? I don't know that
we've ever talked about that before.
Oh, I'm good. Five, six, seven columns. Deep. Like, where do
you want to start? We can start with the fact that this is,
someone who got a black reporter
banned from
covering his team because of some shady situations they had
on. And when he was about to get called on it, with some
actual facts and evidence. He had a black reporter
band. This is the same man who all of a sudden cares about
hbcus, but didn't care about it until he got on the payroll at
one.
This is the same man who son is a freshman starting QV by
To be a sophomore
who said before the season started, we come here because
we want to not because we have to taking a job at other
players had programs at hbcus. But yet
Beyond son, who had 20 offers
before, it was going to Florida. Atlantic
did not have a single HBCU
on his list, but all of a sudden you care about hbcus
when your daddy is on the payroll at floor.
Like, we can go down. Listen, spend a lot of time on what
Dion is doing. And you can say
he's shining a light and he's bringing attention
cool, but all the attention and good attention
because the last time I checked,
this was a man who told us willingly after the season was
over,
that he took multiple
multiple. He got on down laboratory until this this, he
took multiple job interviews during his first year on
the job at PW eyes.
How can you care about us?
Say you stand up for us and trying to change us.
If you are trying to leave us
within the first 12 months, you are there for these white
schools were going to pay you for. Are you here for us? Are
you here for Deion Sanders?
So are you? Yeah, so it sounds like you want those people.
This is It's been speculated for a while that this was just
an opportunity and a stepping stone that he wasn't
really long and committed to this
to this work. You what you got
you've seemed like you feel like he's on his, he's got one
foot out the door. He said Let the job
opportunities. Which you think
he's had this out the door.
All right, let's go back to last spring because
Jackson State played that shorter spring schedule because of the
pandemic that some schools are doing. Right?
Yeah. Do y'all remember the first game? They won. They D
Edward Waters, College Nai School. Blew them out. Yeah.
I remember that. First game Dion came in the press conference.
He didn't talk about what his players did,
how they have, you know, dealt with this pen. Gimmick it
overcame and got their first win.
What was the first post game? Press conference
of Deion Sanders
head coaching career,
like at the Collegiate level. He spent it talking about himself
because allegedly, he got robbed and he spent the first
couple minutes talking about how you could even call his
mama
because somebody stole his stuff.
But lo and behold,
here we go, finding out later
that somebody just moved his stuff so it wouldn't get taken
but we didn't hear about the students.
We can hear about the passing yards defense,
the offense of the defensive strategy.
We didn't hear about any
of the things, those kids did for him.
What's the first thing out of Deion Sanders mouth?
It was about Deion Sanders.
That's the problem noted
noted. Well, I guess we'll wrap it up by once again. Like we
said earlier
today is about
Dion. It's not so much about the animals about you, Nick
Saban and and the dabble Sweeney's of the world who have
long
made it about them
versus The Players. It's been a plantation mentality, long
enough
and
You do not. If they get, it's crazy not to dig in, paid over
the table. See, there's a bigger problem whenever when
players get. Yeah, that's right.
That's right. Everybody. They can't control it.
Everybody. They don't do, they don't,
they don't have control
and that makes them very uncomfortable.
Yeah,
it's that's it's such a tragedy when Bright Young is making
a million dollars, but he get you to the final four.
Hmm. Karna something, Darkness
God, I said earlier, if you only got three million dollars,
But 25 players at Alabama, you doing it wrong. They ain't
the right way. You're doing it the wrong way. Yeah,
that's all they got.
Hey, babe. We appreciate you. Thank you for this food.
That's all he's willing to report. That's all that. That
looks a man is willing to report right now.