DEION SANDERS ON TEAMS GETTING PAID TO LOSE

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3:16Let me ask you this. As far as the conferences, we see some things that make absolutely no sense when conferences, like schools on the west coast and the big east and big 10 has 13 schools it's because they're getting paid yeah so but i say that to say it's all it's all everything is derived around football and the conferences is just going crazy no they ain't they're going money they're going business so i say that to say is there ever any way possible that you foresee jackson state being in a power conference at some point in time i would like to see that when we're ready We got to be ready.

3:52Now, when you start jumping conferences, and I don't want to just jump to no baby conference. If I'm going to jump, let's bungee jump. Let's do the doggone thing, okay? So I got to get the Travises. I got to get Travises there too, okay, up front on both sides, offenses, defensive line, with some depth because that's how the big boys can get you now. They can't mess with you in a skill position because we got a quarterback that can spin it. We got receivers that can go. DBs that can go, linebackers that can bang and cover, where they get you is right here in the trenches. Now when they rotate, they rotate.

4:28They got eight heat seeking missiles coming. And you may have four. So sooner later you're going to wear down. So you got to beef that up if you want to compete with the big boys. But you would like that. Or be open to it. I want that. What conference would you want to be in? It don't matter. A conference that is going to make sure that we don't have a struggle no more. Because everything is a struggle. Everything is not enough. Everything is less than. Everything is like thereof. It's going to be a conference that can put the whole school on, that we straight. SEC would be big. It could be Big 12, too.

5:12SEC is the biggest. This is the biggest. When you start talking like that, you got to answer where the house is. So you got stadiums? You got to have all the facilities? Ain't nobody. Come on, man. I want to get to the facilities. I want to talk. It's easy coming here like this. You said playing the big boys. And I know one of the things you touched on recently was the money games. True. And the disparities in that. Can you elaborate and explain to people? Because when we see, let's pick a random school. Let's say you guys play Alabama. No, no, no. You just saw Alabama State play against UCLA.

5:49Right. Okay. Big dog. I don't mind that. But tell the kids what it is. I'm playing for money. I'm playing so that we can pay for this, pay for this. Don't act like you got a chance because you know you don't. And then if you plan for money, do real business. So you get 500 ,000 or 590 ,000, whatever was reported. Won't you call and check and see how much a charter flight is, two charters? Because you got one for the team and one for the band. Okay, going to California. Now you got hotels and all that, all those accommodations. And probably two nights of food and all that. That's probably six meals.

6:33That's going to be an upward of 700, 800 to a million. But you're getting 590. So you took an L and took an L. Going and getting beat down. Literally. Yeah. So. What if mind control is real? If you could control the behavior of anybody around you, what kind of life would you have? Can you hypnotically persuade someone to buy a car? When you look at your car, you're going to become overwhelmed with such good feelings. Can you hypnotize someone into sleeping with you? I gave her some suggestions to be sexually aroused. Can you get someone to join your cult? NLP was used on me to access my subconscious.

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10:25Guys who are toxic, they're immature, or they've got something they just haven't resolved. Once that gets resolved, then there comes empathy, as in compassion. If you want this to be the year you stop powering through pain and start understanding what's underneath, listen to The Mailroom on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your favorite shows. To me, if I put my kids in a situation where there's no win and it's detrimental to their health, I'm selling them out. We're big on that terminology in African-Americans. I'm putting you in a situation where I know you're not going to win.

11:10And I'm not even getting handsomely compensated for it. That's the problem. But you have the same situation when another school goes to Nebraska and play, and they get 1.4 or 1.7. Another school goes to Penn State and go to one of these other schools, and they get 1.5 or they get 1.3. They're doing better business. To me, isn't the value not in the school that could beat me, it's in the school that I'm going to beat. Because I really just played a setup game just to beat you, right? If I'm paying you, that means I need to whoop you. When a boxer pays another boxer, they paying him to what? Whoop him.

11:49Mayweather ain't going to pay you if his purse is$20 million and he paying you$15 million. No, no, he's going to pay you significantly less because he knows he's going to whoop you. it don't make sense to me man the numbers just don't add up to me that's a problem for me so who negotiates that from the school? it has to be the AD the AD does it? yes I remember when I used to play basketball I used to see like Coppin State the first 15 games was on the road they played Ohio State, Michigan beatdowns pocket's fat though start the season off like 0-10, 0-12 I was going to say, the SEC has that one week every year.

12:28They're like, this is Cupcake City. Why are you playing UCL Monroe? Because it's a pay game for them. Right. Yeah, but you got to make sure you get compensated enough. It's not worth my kids getting hurt. Then I got to go and talk to them. You know what? We could do it next week. I know what happened last week. I'm sorry about that. We had to go get the bag. That's what the conversation should be. We had to go get the bag. But guess what? We could do it this week. We could beat them. Yeah. I can't do it. I can't sell my kids like that. That's what I'm saying. even when you get the bag, it's still coming back to the school, not necessarily the program.

12:59And you ain't even bringing enough back because you got to make it back home. Right. And you didn't even get enough to even make it back home with a bag. And at some point, a conversation has to be had about funding for these schools, especially the state schools, because it's like, why? A lot of these Ohio State's a state school. Like Florida State's a state school. but why do black state schools never get any money at all? Enrollment. You got to talk about enrollment and we got to quit stop accepting whatever they give us. They can't just throw no money at you and you say, oh, thank you. No, man.

13:39Stop accepting the foolishness that they give you. If you accept peanuts, they're going to think you're a monkey. Sooner later, you got to stop dancing and clapping for the little dives they're throwing on your plate. You got to demand we deserve more, and this is why, and it's documented. So one of the things you talked about, obviously, is the facilities. If we're going to grow and win, when comes success, comes more money. I know even like here, when you came here, this room we were sitting in did not exist. No, it didn't. The practice field did not exist. The other practice field did not exist.

14:14None of this existed, and And we're thankful that we have an AD that knows how to fight. And we partner and we communicate and we articulate to one another the needs and the thoughts and the process of getting them. And then I got partners who helped. And one of the things that kind of got glossed over was like, even when this wasn't ready, Coach Prompt said, look, take whatever I'm making, make it happen. Yeah, I had to finish. Get it done. I had to get it done. because I'm going I get tired of telling people this this this this this only you just made me I do it I'm going to tell you to cut the grass three times okay after that I'm going to do it okay so I'm not going to sit up here and just cry cry cry I'm going to give you an opportunity to do what you've been handsomely paid to do your job then again I'm going to do it so you've become the most recognizable person in the state of Mississippi um and I don't even think it's close was probably by a landslide.

15:13So with that, I'm assuming it is a lot on your plate that you probably necessarily didn't sign up for. So we just had, I'm not gonna say that. No, everything that that's on my plate, I've been through the process at the youth level, at the high school level, or at some level, God has taken me through it in the dark. So when you hit the lights, I was ready. my graduates from my school being forbes back drop back drop a mic drop back drop

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