3:30:17 You know what I'm saying? It's like autonomy is huge to me. That's the only way you can be a man, if you're autonomous. I agree. All right enough with story time with Moe let's go ahead and get back into 41. Why can't Deion Sanders just choose be with who he wants to be. Oh, he can go take whatever job he wants but when you come into the first job and sell the idea that you are going to be the savior of HBCUs and you are going to raise a playing field not just for Jackson State but for everybody else and your gonna do it because God told you to do it He said that Yeah he said that explicitly said that god sent him to do this OH NO! So then when you leave
3:30:56 Yeah, people are going to ask questions about what exactly it was. Now I don't go into the sellout place necessarily but i do think he's the monorail salesman from The Substance He went in and sold the big dream now if you paid any attention you knew that the dream he was selling wasn't possible It was not an achievable one that he had But he sold it and got people to believe him And then he shook the deuce and left So as you know Shannon Sharpe right? Yes You've heard his comments I want to play them for our audience because He, Shannon Sharpe has this sort of a rising tide lifts all boats. If he did it for Jackson State then maybe that helped the entire HBCU let's play this and I want your response to it. Okay good as interesting couple things there. Great! Well it is probably a good lesson that you know if you're gonna say God sent me to do something
3:31:37 You know, people are going to expect some big things. That's not exactly how it works but you know people will go oh okay well if that's the case and then the minute you decide do something else which God could have told him as well then no no that doesn't compute so that's always a risk to do that And it taps into the psyche of waiting for Messiah. It's a rampant thought, two things I want to address in one clip. One... It's a rampant thought and we're waiting on the Messiah. You know saying who's the next MLK? Who's the next Malcolm X who's it bruh you be demanding your house for your children, right I'll do this same innocent and will have continued improvement Not waiting on somebody that carry us to the promised land like Moses, you know And that's what Kaia was kind of tapping into into you understand as well with
3:32:32 With that, you know what I'm saying? I'm here for like Moses kind of thing. Excuse me yay! I gotta stop doing it but you're saying You know what I'm saying? It's like calling Muhammad Ali Cassius Clay. I don't want to be disrespectful, but it's just a muscle memory thing But you know and then the other thing is this uh... What was his name? The guy talking i know his name. I can't think of it. In the clip Yeah, I can't think it's Bumati Jones I believe it is This down with thinking like oh it's an impossible feat How?! I mean this is the thing like When you say this is the kind of downward thinking that we had to face. It's like, oh you're saying Oh, you know that's impossible Nothing is impossible You put your will to it and belief in it but that's the kind of thing like he should have been sold out That's what I'm hearing Like he just went straight past go and collected his 200 dollars And this is a justification and imma tell you this
3:33:30 this hit at home with a lot of the sportscasters. Because it's like what you were saying about the podcast, like won't you start your own podcast? Why don't you go to YouTube and start your own channel while you're out here working for ESPN?" You see what I'm saying? But they don't because that mentality is... So they said Deion a sellout by working for ESPN slash Disney who was saying we all know the history of Disney but its like whoa! Like you know what I'm saying? Yeah hello podcast. It was weird, just weird he should strike out on his own, but y'all won't. Well I mean this is mainstream media you know what do you expect from him? Uh...I was gonna say uh that wouldn't be an expectation all we're going to say it'd be at least fair i mean like y'all are working for big organizations and companies sure so well just like i said go ahead the media builds up
3:34:26 The media breaks down, the media facilitates a comeback. It's the way it always goes And we stopped at 41 or 42? We...42 is up next Okay let's go ahead and get into 40 Sorry about that Let's go ahead and get to 42 Dion did something that very few coaches are able to do He leveraged his relationships Skip No football team had more uniforms than Jackson State except for University of Oregon Under Armour, every single week they got new helmets. They got new unis. He did this with Walmart. He took $150,000 of his salary and helped finish building the facilities. He did? He leveraged his relationship with American Airlines. He brought eyes to HBCU's gift. There wasn't nobody talking about HBCU especially now! They're talking about it on television that because of him he gave you a blueprint Now follow the blueprint
3:35:21 He's saying basically mission accomplished. What do you think? Well, I mean part of it and I love Shannon to death Part of where I disagree with him is so much that was singular to Deion Sanders Like we do have to admit that he is the charismatic individual like just because Dion could do It doesn't mean that everybody else can do it That's the first part The second thing they're gonna play in the Celebration Bowl I believe next week in Atlanta against the champions of the Miyak They played in that bowl game last year. South Carolina State blew their doors off in that game Do you know the head coach at South Carolina State? Can you name a single player of South Carolina State I can't it brought attention to Dion It brought attention to Jackson state You weren't gonna bring attention To all these other schools and the time period that he was there like if he was really going to accomplish That, that's a 10-year program At least. You're saying he had to stay Yeah Alright so once again negative thinking Oh yeah One thing though is the uniforms
3:36:09 Point I want to make on that is that only difference between d1 and D3 HBCU knees in saying these different levels of football is the cameras is the uniform You know say like they can show the show element right you could shoot it a certain way. I mean cuz like when HBCU, you got like one stationary camera It was at a 50-yard line And then you got maybe a couple on the sidelines. 100% it's like Elvis performing in a circus tent I mean, you need the whole kit and caboodle to make it the spectacle that football is Right and a lot of that is the uniforms Sure...and the cameras You know we've seen this so That's one thing He did lay down the blueprint because he could have easily
3:37:01 The blueprint is bring in celebrity coaches. I don't care if they can coach football a lick or not, you know what i'm saying? I want Jerome Bettis and all these legends walking up and down the HBCU sidelines as the draw And then your staff be you're saying uh well highly trained But you're the draw, you know saying you are that's what Dion not to take away from his football knowledge What I'm saying? You're the ambassador for your school. Mm-hmm You know saying you going out doing a press runs and whatever like that now One of the things I want to talk about is one of his supporters was Walmart Walmart used Dion to push the vaccine
3:37:46 Heavy is Nobody's gonna talk like like this because they either gonna be pro prime or anti look I think prom did a good thing. I think he should have stayed longer if his goal was to build that highway But if you want to take his talents elsewhere, uh You know, I'm all for it too Because one thing is his son played for him and sons the quarterback and if he wants his son to go to a pro We go to the pros. He got to go play against, you know bigger not a bigger school But schools would get more attention right? That's the thing but Walmart they were pushing the vaccine heavy at Jackson State Dion had blood clots in his toes and lost two of his toes when I ride after the vaccine was starting being pushed crap
3:38:38 Nobody and when they fact-checked it too for you people saying He had a long history of injuries daughter that I'm like no Then whenever they fact check something That means something stinks. So I have to be honest with you like All money ain't good money Do you think that was a part of his decision to leave? I don't know, but I'm gonna say this. He should have factored in thinking about decision where he's going to Colorado how aptitude because we know how altitude plays in and can we get some value prayer for Dion you understand prime? You know cuz I don't know if he factored it in or not but Yeah So so that I just want to lay that out there and just one final point The reason why I said, I don't think he sold out. I think he was bought off
3:39:31 He's going to one of the coldest, no pun intended, whitest places there is. University Colorado having a black coach for them is nothing new they had two or three before him so it was nothing spectacular in that case what is is Nike has a long lucrative relationship with Colorado I think this was a buy Deion off so he doesn't become the change agent that he wanted to do, to start saying oh we can start going to HBCUs because what people don't understand is in colleges where you meet your agent and colleges where you meet your lawyer for these I mean these dudes are financial epicenters of the investor world. You know what i'm saying like? It's a serious industry. I mean that's obvious Right! And colleges where you meet... Colleges where you meet your wife
3:40:24 You know what I'm saying? We gotta factor it in there too. When they bring these black kids to these schools, that's higher chance for them to meet a white girlfriend or white... So all this plays into it. So I'm just saying like, I think it was a high level decision to say you heard Nick Saban look he already took one player five star player from us. Do you wanna let this keep going? You know do you want to go back to the Bear Bryant age? And that's real, you understand? That's a reality. So anything else you want to add too? I mean i know i said a lot... No this is..I'm enjoying it because this is not my territory obviously but i like it and i'm actually