Deion Sanders’ decision to accept the head coaching job at Colorado is still sending shock waves through the college football world.
Bomani Jones told CNN Tuesday he doesn’t fault Sanders for leaving Jackson State for a much more lucrative contract at Colorado. But he said Sanders shouldn’t have vowed when he took the Jackson State position that he was on some “grandiose” mission from God to help historically black colleges.
In the end, Jones said, Sanders “did it for Deion.”
“I don’t judge him for taking the job at Colorado, they probably increased his salary by something like 15 times,” Jones said.
“I wouldn’t have come in the first place and say that God sent me here to fix HBCUs and God decided in the middle of it you were supposed to leave. The thing I’ve said is maybe God wants 10% of five mil and not 10% of 375 [hundred thousand dollars]. If God can do math, I can understand why it is.
“He sold a dream and then walked out on the dream. People have the right to be critical of that. I also would have taken the job at Colorado. But this is not in line with what he told us for all these years.”
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“He did a lot of good work while he was at Jackson State,” Jones continued. “But all the bigger grandiose notions of what he was doing for somebody else — nah, it was what it always is: He did it for Deion.”
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