The coach-on-coach verbal abuse continues.
Deion Sanders won’t answer the phone if Nick Saban calls after saying the Alabama coach had publicly spat “lies” on Wednesday when he claimed Jackson State paid top prospect Travis Hunter $1 million to play for the Tigers. .
“I have not spoken to coach Saban,” Sanders said in an interview with Andscape on Thursday. “I’m sure he tried to call. We need to talk in public – not in private. What you said was public. No conversation is needed. Let’s talk publicly and let everyone hear the conversation.
“You can’t do that in public and call in private,” said Sanders, who starred in multiple Aflac insurance commercials with Saban. “No no no. I still love him. I admire him. I respect him. He is the magna cum laude of college football and he will be, because he has earned it. But he turned left while he turned right should have stayed. I’m sure he’ll get back on course. I’m not tripping.”
Saban said he contacted Sanders on Thursday during a radio interview on Sirius XM, but Sanders did not respond.
Sanders denied that Hunter, the nation’s top college football player in class of 2022, has a million-dollar NIL deal with Jackson State, saying the school is not on the same financial level as Power Five schools, such as Alabama. .
“I don’t make a million,” Sanders said. “Travis isn’t built that way. Travis isn’t chasing a dollar. Travis pursues greatness. Travis and his family don’t get in so much trouble. They never came to us looking for the bag. They are not built that way. This boy wants to be great. He wants my hands on him. He wants me to shape him. He wants me to be his navigation system through life. He wants to be that guy.”
Hunter has two current NIL deals and two pending. According to Andscape, the deals are worth less than $250,000.
Sanders said he believes Saban messaged his own boosters in Alabama to catch up with other schools in a pro-NIL world.
“Coach Saban wasn’t talking to me. Coach Saban didn’t speak to Jimbo Fisher,” Sanders said of the Texas A&M coach, who responded fervently to Saban’s comments. “He was talking to his boosters. He spoke to his former students. He spoke to his donors. He was trying to get money. That’s what he was doing. He was just using us to get where he was trying to get.
“I don’t even wear a watch and I know what time it is. They forget I know who brought and dropped the bag,” Sanders said. “I know this stuff. I’m not the one you want to play with when it comes to all these things.”
Saban’s comments sparked drama Wednesday night, as he spoke about nameplate and likeness (NIL) deals and their effect on college football, while speaking with local business leaders in Birmingham, Alabama to promote the World Games.
“Jackson State paid a man $1 million last year who was a really good Division I player to come to school,” Saban said Wednesday. “It was in the paper. They bragged about it. Nobody did anything about it.”
Saban also said Texas A&M has paid all of its recruits to sign with the Aggies.
Fisher was quick to call a press conference on Thursday and took off on Saban, whom he called a “narcissist.”
Saban later apologized for picking schools, but stood by his comments. Fisher said Saban tried to call him, but stated the two were “done.”
The Southeastern Conference publicly rebuked Saban on Thursday for his comments.
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