Prime Time recruiting secret

[thatsbaseball]

If a white coach had said this.....Holy shiit

Coach Prime Wants QBs with 'Dual Parents', DL With 'Single Mamas'

Colorado head coach Deion Sanders is a polarizing personality by every stretch of the imagination and anytime he finds himself in front of a microphone, people hold their breath for the next great quote. Last week, Sanders was a guest on the “Rich Eisen Show” ahead of Super Bowl LVII, and “Coach...

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[DesotoCountyDawg]

Gotta love the double standards.

 

[DoggieDaddy13]

So he wouldn't have recruited Dak. Or he would have made him a tight end/LB.

 

[RocketDawg]

In general, he's correct but of course there are exceptions. Quarterbacks need to be intelligent. In fact, all "skill positions" need to be bright. Linemen need to be big. However - if a white coach had said the same things he'd no doubt be fired immediately.

 

[Perd Hapley]

Meh. It was a really idiotic thing to say in general, but I’m not sure it was inherently racist.

Its just dumb and ignorant as hell to say you have a preference or aversion to any particular player based on how many parents raised them…..something any recruit has exactly zero control over.

Even the 3.5 GPA for QB’s thing is dumb. Plenty of great and very football-smart QB’s all over college football that aren’t rocking a 3.5.

 

[AFDawg]

Quarterbacks need to be intelligent. In fact, all "skill positions" need to be bright. Linemen need to be big.

The last stats I saw showed that the average Wonderlic for offensive tackles and centers was higher than that for quarterbacks.

 

[onewoof]

This is in light of Mahomes and Hurt who both come from good parenting. As well as CJ Stroud, Bryce Young and Will Rogers.

 

[DecadeReb2]

Meh. It was a really idiotic thing to say in general, but I’m not sure it was inherently racist.

Its just dumb and ignorant as hell to say you have a preference or aversion to any particular player based on how many parents raised them…..something any recruit has exactly zero control over.

Even the 3.5 GPA for QB’s thing is dumb. Plenty of great and very football-smart QB’s all over college football that aren’t rocking a 3.5.

That’s somewhat the point. The statement does not have to be inherently racist, it just depends what color the person is who makes said statement.

 

[Perd Hapley]

That’s somewhat the point. The statement does not have to be inherently racist, it just depends what color the person is who makes said statement.

Well the point seems to have been that if a white coach said it he’d be in deep sh*t. I don’t necessarily think so….I think any coach who is not Deion Sanders (white or black) would have drawn quite a bit of criticism for saying something so obviously ignorant. But Deion, for better or worse, has normalized idiotic statements over several years, so he will likely get a pass based on just being himself.

 

[WrapItDog]

Its just dumb and ignorant as hell to say you have a preference or aversion to any particular player based on how many parents raised them…..something any recruit has exactly zero control over.

Especially coming from a man that divorced two wives that had his five kids.

He recruited his own son that didn't have a father in the home since the kid was about 12. With Deion's TV job he was probably gone most of the kid's life.

 

[jethreauxdawg]

I discussed this with HR today so we can update our job postings. I said we need dual parent electricians, we need them to be smart. But the brick layers need to be from single moms, we want them to hustle.

 

[She Mate Me]

Is it still racism when I say Deion is going to be a massive failure at Colorado??

 

[Cantdoitsal]

Stupid thing to say in that media limited context but he does have a point considering the stats LBJ's "Great Society" had on fatherless homes and its impact on child performance in the classroom and society in general. We've gone downhill at this point. Sad.