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Jackson State head football coach Deion Sanders has an issue with the way college football is trending in the new name, image and likeness era.
“When you start paying athletes like they’re professionals, you get athletes acting like they’re professionals,” Sanders said in a video he directed at the NCAA and posted on Twitter. “And you don’t have staffs large enough and equipped enough to handle a young man with money. Let me go deeper. Handle a young man that’s making more money than some of the coaches on staff.”
COACH PRIME @DeionSanders
<a href=”https://twitter.com/NCAA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>@NCAA</a> YOU HAVE A PROBLEM! I’m trying to help before it blows up in your face. Money Makes You More Of Who You Really Are. Now think about that for a minute. God bless u all. <a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/CoachPrime?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>#CoachPrime</a> <a href=”https://t.co/ZbncNK2PDt”>pic.twitter.com/ZbncNK2PDt</a>
He also said smaller programs cannot compete with larger ones when it comes to paying athletes and suggested schools should be allowed to hire more coaches.
“I suggest to you to allow college teams to hire more qualified men,” he said. “Qualified. That can handle these young men that’s getting this money.”
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