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<p>Jackson State Football coach <strong>Deion Sanders</strong> will donate half of his $300,000 base salary to the university in order to complete renovations to the program’s football facility, he announced on Sunday.</p>
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<p>In a video posted by Thee Pregame Show, the 54-year-old is in a golf cart touring the facility, speaking about the next stages of the property with his business partner Constance Schwartz-Morini. Constance challenges the coach to put up 25% of his salary to complete the school&#8217;s project.</p>
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<p>He obliges, but puts up more than she insists and donates half of his salary instead. Sanders says he’s donating to ensure the facility is completed a month before the season starts on September 4th when Jackson State will play Florida A&;M in Miami.</p>
<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ll put more than that on it. I&#8217;ll put half on it to get this done,&#8221; the 54-year-old said. &#8220;If you don&#8217;t believe me, check me. I will send you the receipts.</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s not the only donation the school will receive.<strong> Diddy</strong> <a href="http://o">announced he is donating $1 million dollars</a> at the BET Awards last month.</p>
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<p>After pledging a million to Howard University&#8211;where he once attended&#8211; Diddy stated:</p>
<blockquote><p>Also, I’m gonna drop another million dollars on Deion Sanders and Jackson State because we should play for us.</p></blockquote>
<p>This announcement is just one of many positive changes coming to the area and HBCUs as a whole. As <a href="https://dev.theshaderoom.com/welcome-to-the-swac-top-recruit-travis-hunter-flips-from-florida-state-and-joins-deion-sanders-at-jackson-state/">previously reported</a>, the number one recruit, Travis Hunter, flipped from Florida State and chose Jackson State in an unprecedented and historical move.</p>
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<p>Though he was thankful for the opportunity from FSU, the Florida native decided that it was better to make history at an HBCU. In an interview with <a href="https://www.11alive.com/article/sports/deion-sanders-top-recruit-travis-hunter-hbcu-jackson-state/85-fdfd58bf-b66b-418c-a26d-3267d0044efe">11alive</a>, Hunter stated:</p>
<blockquote><p>I got a chance to make a change in history. I mean … me being the first (top) recruit to ever got to an HBCU is really good for me.</p></blockquote>
<p>Sanders led the Tigers to a 2021 SWAC Championship, and the 2020-2021 season was the best in the school&#8217;s history.</p>
<p>Roomies, what y&#8217;all think about this?</p>
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