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MEAC issues statement regarding comments made by Jackson State coach Deion Sanders

Kenn Rashad by Kenn Rashad
September 4, 2021
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Jackson State head football coach Deion Sanders has triggered the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) to issue a statement after making comments about the conference’s future.

“Personally, I wish the MEAC would fold up like a tent and just come on so we could really do this thing like the SEC,” Sanders said to media members during Friday’s Orange Blossom Classic press conference. “That’s my hope. That’s my dream. I’m pretty sure that’s not going to happen no time expeditiously.”

Also read: Deion Sanders has visions of merger with MEAC to form HBCU super conference

The MEAC, currently a six-team football conference (eight members in total), has experienced an exodus of former members leaving for other leagues over the past few years, with Bethune-Cookman and Florida A&M being the most recent to leave the conference to join the SWAC.

On Saturday, the MEAC issued the following statement:

“The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) has just completed a successful 50th anniversary recognizing our former student-athletes and coaches and the impact they have made in their communities and the professional ranks. The conference’s membership has a rich history of academic and athletic excellence and is committed to its long-term sustainability. The MEAC has strong national leadership in its presidents and chancellors and is aware and involved in the current issues facing the NCAA. We wish Coach Sanders, his student-athletes and his program well this season. The MEAC will have no further comment on this matter.”

Sanders and his Jackson State squad will open the season Sunday at 2 p.m. against Florida A&M in the Orange Blossom Classic at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida.

Sunday’s matchup also marks the Rattlers’ season opener and conference debut as a member of the SWAC.



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Kenn Rashad

Kenn Rashad is the Founding Editor & Publisher of HBCU Sports and a graduate of Grambling State University.

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Comments 28

  1. Arthur Armstrong says:
    1 year ago

    Dion Sanders is absolutely right.

    Reply
    • G says:
      1 year ago

      💯✅

      Reply
  2. Cody Cole says:
    1 year ago

    Deion Sanders has my vote!

    Reply
  3. DeWayne Jackson says:
    1 year ago

    I think Coach is right the SWAC overall is the strongest conference so let’s merge all into the SWAC and I’m sure millions of dollars would be given to all these HBCU schools because the presence would be very strong in their perspective States and College Football as a whole will have to give us the respect and recognition that we rightly and truly deserve

    Reply
  4. J says:
    1 year ago

    Highway education is supposed to be free! Throughput our great land!

    Reply
    • Johnnie Greene says:
      1 year ago

      HuH? High whut?

      Reply
  5. Sam Cash says:
    1 year ago

    I agree with Coach Prime 100%.

    Reply
  6. Reginald Ellis says:
    1 year ago

    Lol
    …. “Like a tent!” #Dang lol

    Reply
  7. Dr. Leroy C. Floyd, Jr. says:
    1 year ago

    Just because Dion Sanders said it. That doesn’t mean that it right. His statement about the MEAC is about as bad as his coaching. His comments need to be X ‘ed
    O (out). And maybe he should concentrate
    on the X’s snd O’s on the field. He has yet to prove himself as an elite coach. And he has ” O ” experience as an athletic commissioner. And certainly does not have the mental acumen or I Q to be a college president or college provost.

    Reply
    • Bear Harmon says:
      1 year ago

      I think it’s odd to attack his education and his acumen being someone with your education and acumen. Coach Prime has nothing to gain by this comment. It’s all about getting these kids the exposure they need to accomplish their dreams. Leveling the field financially is important and necessary. It will ultimately help the schools as well! It’s hard to be proven at thing you just started, but you can’t argue that he’s closer than you or I being an elite coach. He’s in the HOF and arguably the best CB to play the sport he’s coaching. Relax on all your negative rhetoric.

      Reply
    • Jeffrey says:
      1 year ago

      Leroy Floyd Jr you don’t think something is a slightly off with you making that comment

      Reply
  8. Dexter McCloud says:
    1 year ago

    How so? The driver for super conferences is to profit from tv contracts and national championships. When a SEC team wins a national championship, everyone gets a piece of the pie.

    That being said, who is the HBCU national champion? And, can the television revenue sustain additional members?

    Reply
  9. Todd Bailey says:
    1 year ago

    Make it happen

    Reply
  10. G says:
    1 year ago

    Once again, the MEAC doesn’t get it! Okay you have a 50 year history. Great! But that’s just it…. History!

    The MEAC is behind the times once again and who will they have to blame when it’s said and done? Themselves, that’s who.

    Savanna State, Hampton, Bethune Cookman, Florida A&M, North Carolina A&T all have left. What are there like 5 or 6 football teams left?

    I guess you’ll reach out to the Kentucky States and Virginia States of the world and out something together.

    Reply
  11. Steve mccullough says:
    1 year ago

    Coach prime is right take it to another level

    Reply
  12. C D says:
    1 year ago

    I agree with Coach Sanders. However, it’s not a comment that he should be making.

    Reply
    • Mel says:
      1 year ago

      Somebody has to step up and speak up so he did .

      Reply
  13. Bruce D Harris says:
    1 year ago

    I think coach said it right these future NFL players need more opportunities to have what sec gets money.

    Reply
  14. Randy H says:
    1 year ago

    Some people just stay in a box..Not Coach Prime…MEAC loss!

    Reply
  15. Anthony Johnson says:
    1 year ago

    POWER CONFERENCE IS BIG $$ SMALL CONFERENCE’S WILL NOT SURVIVE LONG YOU WILL GET BETTER ATHLETES AND TV TIME $$ DEION SANDERS IS CORRECT.

    Reply
  16. Anthony Johnson says:
    1 year ago

    Deion Sanders is correct you should go for a superpower conference there’s more money involved and you can recruit better athletes with a bigger conference.

    Reply
  17. Zack says:
    1 year ago

    I absolutely agree make a super conference and watch the top recruits start coming to these programs.

    Reply
  18. Terrence Nichols says:
    1 year ago

    True statement

    Reply
  19. Antwan says:
    1 year ago

    In my opinion the only problem with Prime’s statement is the jab at a Historical Conference that paved the way for so many African American Athletes. Instead of recommending the MEAC fold, he should’ve recommended the SWAC and MEAC merge into a new Mega Conference. Creates new history and greatness without losing the history of either conference.

    Reply
  20. Kuntajus65 says:
    1 year ago

    Joining a Super Conference would increase every University’s revenue, so you can get better Coaches, better Stadiums, better equipment, better players.
    But most of all..
    More games on National T.V.

    Reply
  21. Zion Gyata Akoma says:
    1 year ago

    A critical issue to spend our intellectual energy on is, developing an economic base ensuring and sustaining the life and legacy of all HBCUs.

    Reply
  22. James Howze says:
    1 year ago

    The question, who benefits from this, before any decision is made, who benefits from this, it should be for the kids who are putting their minds and bodies at risk. Do this for them and them only and the other pieces would fall into place.

    Reply
  23. Maurice Hopkins says:
    1 year ago

    Coach Prime is right. Let’s merge or even start a new mega super conference. These kids are just as talented and important as the SEC. And need the same attention and exposure.

    Reply

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