Earn Your Leisure DEION SANDERS ON TEAMS GETTING PAID TO LOSE
Nov 22, 2025
Deion Sanders, a former NFL Hall of Famer and current college football coach at Jackson State, shares his candid views on the economics of college football. He discusses the financial implications of conference realignment and highlights the challenges small programs face in money games where they are paid to lose. Deion emphasizes the need for better funding and resources for HBCUs and calls for fair compensation for players, pushing for a transformative approach to how Black state schools operate in the college sports landscape.
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Conferences Are Driven By Money
- Conferences and realignment revolve around football revenue and business, not tradition or geography.
- Deion Sanders argues conference moves are driven purely by money and TV/value calculations.
Build Trench Depth First
- Beef up offensive and defensive lines before moving into a power conference to avoid depth collapses.
- Deion Sanders emphasizes building trench depth to withstand bigger programs' rotations.
Money Games Often Undervalue Smaller Schools
- 'Money games' are structured where smaller schools are paid to play and expect to lose, often without adequate compensation.
- Sanders highlights the mismatch between payout and actual trip costs and risks for players.