Shilo Sanders visited his old school as a special guest for the P.R.O.M. (Please Return On Monday) Promise event, which was hosted by JSU’s Metro Jackson Community Prevention Coalition. The event encouraged hundreds of Jackson Public Schools students to stay safe during their upcoming prom nights. What makes this interesting is that this is the same school that harshly criticized Deion Sanders after he left for Colorado.
Deion Sanders upset many fans when he left Jackson State University to coach at the University of Colorado. Some people even called him a “sellout” for leaving the HBCU. After he left, a student was caught on video damaging a mural of Sanders at Jackson State. It is not known if the student was punished, but they did cause major damage.
It wasn’t just fans but even analysts like Bomani Jones who openly criticized Sanders, saying he “sold a dream and then walked out on the dream.” Later, Bomani Jones said he doesn’t blame Sanders for taking a higher-paying job, but he disagrees with the things Sanders said at Jackson State if he always planned to leave…