After Deion Sanders was fired, hired, and fired again from his own school, allegations surfaced of him threatening people at the school and bullying them in an attempt to get more money. It has been hard to really verify what actually happened though. Until now. Thanks to The Dallas Observer, we have audio of Sanders going off about a number of things including getting his money and he does threaten to break D.L. Wallace’s neck who is the co-founder and CEO of Prime Prep.
“I’m going to get more money, or there ain’t going to be no school, that’s just flat out how it’s going to be,” Sanders tells Wallace in the recording.
He admits he doesn’t really need the money. “Forget me, because what I do with the money I’m getting, I turn around and stipend my coaches,” he says, apparently referring to the small stipends usually paid to high school sports coaches. “Because God has blessed me, I don’t really need it. But I’m going to get it because it’s mine and my name is on the building. OK, that’s just fair.”
He adds: “I don’t know who you can look in this eye in this room, and say, ‘I’m going to give myself 120 Gs and I’m giving Prime 40.’ You can’t justify that.”
Then he goes on to say in the next recording:
“You don’t even really know how we got this school in Austin, you don’t really know, so let me tell you,” Sanders tells Wallace in the recordings. “It ain’t because all these inflated words and wonderful things we said, it was another way.” Sanders lectures Wallace on the school’s origins, reminding him how Sanders’ own celebrity, and apparently special treatment from politicians in Austin, helped close the deal.
“Senators, political leaders that you hooked me up with, that you put me down with. That’s how we got the school,” Sanders says, before disparaging other leaders at the school. “You’re talking about a nigga sitting up there that was an athlete who didn’t graduate, another nigga sitting up there saying he’s the president, that ain’t graduate nothing, and we got a school. Think about that, man. How in the world do you think we got a school?”
“I’m pissed off at you dog, because I trusted you, from man to man, I always had your back,” he says. “I feel like throwing this chair at you and breaking your damn neck right now, and I don’t even use profanity, but I’m going to let it ride, because I’m pissed off because I love kids.”
“You look at it as business, nigga,” Sanders says. “I look at it as kids.”
Prime is going to have some explaining to do after all this.