Former NFL big name DeSean Jackson is a couple of months from his first season as a head professor at HBCU Delaware Situation, however he’s already coping with the best way NIL is converting school soccer.
“This process has been different for me. The reason why I say this, is I have some players coming in my office asking like ‘coach, I want this amount of money and I’m going to the highest bidder,” Jackson said in a recent interview on the Up and Adams Show with Kay Adams.
The now 39-year-old former Cal Bears receiver attempted to position himself in his avid gamers’ footwear, however he had a tricky date.
“If I would have went into Nick Saban and Pete Carroll’s office back then and been like ‘I want this and I want that — they would have looked at me like you better get out of here.”
Sure, Jackson admits it is a other week.
“I honestly look at this era now as free agency. It’s almost like an NFL system. It’s like a farm system to the NFL,” Jackson mentioned. “The NCAA, they’re going to have to figure this out. There’s no (salary) cap on it. Some schools are going to be able to pay these guys millions of dollars. And then some schools like us we don’t really have the resources — HBCU or black college — we don’t really have the resources to compete with Oregon or Alabama or al these other schools and we’re a Division I school.”
Jackson says that in spite of the inadequency of assets, he’s pleased with the consequences he’s gotten at Delaware Situation. He says a lot of this is because of the relationships that he has.
“I may not be able to offer a million dollars. I may be able to offer $20k in NIL, but my name may be able to make up the rest of that money.”
DeSean Jackson is web hosting a megacamp on June 7 that can constituent former NFL big name and Miami Hurricanes legend Clinton Portis. He additionally seen that talks are on-going between Delaware Situation, Norfolk State and the Philadelphia Eagles to move the DSU-NSU game featuring Jackson coaching against Michael Vick.
“It may be a different date. We’re trying to work on a date,” Jackson mentioned. “It may be Oct. 30. We’re trying to get that at Lincoln Financial Field. We’re trying to get that at the Eagles’ stadium.”
Jackson mentioned that issues are going superior on Delaware Situation’s finish and that they’re ready on Norfolk Situation to just accept. Negative bulletins had been made, even though.
