The Jackson State football team, coached by Deion Sanders, prepares to make a declaration versus Louisiana-Monroe on Saturday-- also if history suggests it will not."Normally you just make money to visit obtain defeat, right?"Sanders said Monday throughout a conference call with Southwestern Athletic Meeting media. "That's truly the objective, right? Somebody pays you, your program makes more money than they typically will to go get your butt kicked.
"I do not count on that."
JSU (2-0) is seeking its very first win against an FBS program given that at the very least 1978, according to NCAA.com, when it deals with ULM (0-1) at 7 p.m. Saturday in Monroe. ULM has actually lost 12 straight games, linked for the longest losing streak in the nation, and Jackson State has become one of the premier programs at Historically Black Schools.
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The juxtaposition makes Saturday's video game a viable double-dip chance for the Tigers, who will be paid $350,000 for playing the game-- win or shed-- according to the game contract acquired by USA TODAY Sports. JSU will earn$ 350,000 when it goes back to Monroe momentarily video game in 2024.
"Generally when you bet a giant like I see a few of the HBCU schools have actually taken, it assists the spending plan, yet it eliminates the spirits," Sanders claimed. "Exactly how can obtaining your butt kicked, I mean truly kicked, help you as a team? Financially, cool. All cash ain't great cash."
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An HBCU program hasn't racked up an FBS upset because 2018, when North Carolina A&T beat East Carolina, 28-23. Yet the accomplishment is coming to be much more common total at the FCS degree, that includes all programs from the SWAC.
8 FCS programs have actually beaten FBS groups this season, including Jacksonville State's last-second victory over Florida State-- Sanders' university-- on Saturday.
"We simply want to go out there and perform, do what we're blessed to do," Sanders said. "Excel. We're mosting likely to learn that some gamers actually are today since you're going to have a real formidable challenger that we're intended the lose by all accounts. We weren't intended to be in this game, right? We earn money to get beat, right?"
JSU transmitted Tennessee State, 38-16, in the Southern Heritage Classic on Saturday. Sanders claimed his protective system really did not show adequate renovation, however the offense made plays that it didn't in a 7-6 win over Florida A&M in the season opener.
Sanders signed the highest-rated recruiting course in FCS and also HBCU history in 2021, with a national recruiting ranking 44 spots ahead of ULM's, according to the 247Sports Compound. None of that has actually transformed his method to Saturday's game versus the Warhawks.
"If they don't exercise, they're not going to play, as well as if they do not perform well in practice, they're not mosting likely to begin," Sanders said. "That's just how we go about practicing. The thought procedure of developing to Saturday. Saturday begins today, man. It does not start on Saturday. It begins today."
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