Fairly recently, we’ve seen Division 1 schools make significant investments in the “cost of attendance” stipend for student-athletes.
If you’re attending school at least half-time, the COA is the estimate of tuition and fees, cost of room and board (or living expenses), cost of books, supplies, transportation, loan fees, and miscellaneous expenses (including a reasonable amount for the documented cost of a personal computer), allowance for child care or other dependent care, costs related to a disability, and reasonable costs for eligible study-abroad programs.
Jackson State head coach Deion Sanders is looking to expand the cost of attendance conversation to include HCBUs.
The hall of fame cornerback jumped on Twitter and made a plea for it after seeing one of his players.
“Seeing 1 of my lineman getting dressed in the locker room for work after a tough 7:15am workout/ strength, conditioning & class,” Sanders wrote. “Now he’s headed to put in 6 hours on the clock at his job brought tears to my eyes as I walk away from him. HBCU’s need COST OF ATTENDANCE! #CoachPrime”
Sanders has been very outspoken since being hired as head coach, even saying back in February that he wanted to expand the college football bowl structure to include more HBCU programs.
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“Why we keep accepting Spam when we can get a steak? Why in the world would we do that?” Sanders said via HBCU Gameday. “And then, I get upset with the simple-mindedness of people that say, ‘we already have a bowl.’ Well yeah, that’s for two teams. Only two teams. What about all the other teams that had winning records? What other bowls do they get to go to? None.
“So you mean to tell me you can go 9-2 and you don’t get to go to a bowl game because you’re not a champion? I just saw a bowl game that had a team that won two darn games this year. Made me mad. That got me hot. Why can’t that be us? Difference is all the people who are talking and murmuring, they’ve never been to a bowl. I went to four bowl games at Florida State. I remember the impact that had on me.”
