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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Sport
Andrew Lawrence

Deion Sanders’ Rocky Mountain high is a low for Black colleges

Deion Sanders: ‘The thing that alarms me the most is just because I’m leaving Jackson, they think that I’m leaving African Americans.’
Deion Sanders: ‘The thing that alarms me the most is just because I’m leaving Jackson, they think that I’m leaving African Americans.’ Photograph: David Zalubowski/AP

Say this much for Deion Sanders: He didn’t slink away under cover of darkness, quiet quit on the season or reach for another dog-eared page from the opportunist’s playbook.

Instead, the 55-year-old coach gathered up his Jackson State Tigers players one last time over the weekend and told them that, indeed, the breaking news was true – that the University of Colorado had hired him away. “It’s not about a bag,” he told the somber room. “I’ve been making money a long time and ain’t nowhere near broke. It is about an opportunity.”

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