” I call Nick Saban Nick,” Suss responded. “If you call Nick Nick you get cussed out on the area. Dont do that and treat me like Nick.” Look, I respond to just about anything and Ive been called simply about everything,” Saban stated, by means of AL.com.
Deion Sanders, the Hall of Fame cornerback and head coach of Jackson State football, went out of an interview on Tuesday after a reporter refused to call him “coach.” Sanders, who is entering his 2nd year with Jackson State, corrected a reporter after he referred to him by his very first name during the Southwestern Athletic Conference media day occasion. PREVIOUS ILLINOIS FOOTBALL STAR BOBBY ROUNDTREE DIES AT 23, TWO YEARS AFTER BEING PARALYZED IN SWIMMING ACCIDENT ” Back up a bit. You do not call [Alabamas] Nick Saban Nick. Do not call me Deion,” Sanders stated interrupting Clarion-Ledger reporter Nick Suss. ” I call Nick Saban Nick,” Suss replied.” No, you dont. No, you dont. Thats a lie,” Sanders fired back. “If you call Nick Nick you get cussed out on the spot. Do not do that and treat me like Nick.” Suss, not taking Sanders recommendations, responded: “OK, Deion.” CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMThe NFL legend, feeling slighted, took his headset off and left. ” Never went out of media day,” Sanders, who passes Coach Prime on his Twitter account, stated in a tweet. “I prolonged my time to address another concern & & the person believed it was charming to resolve me the method he did so I dropped the call & & went to the next outlet. Please dont enable a fool to fool u due to the fact that then nobody would truly know who the fool is.” Suss explained to the Ledger that he calls everyone that he interviews by their given name. ” Whether its somebody Ive been dealing with for many years or someone Im speaking with for the very first time. This holds true of the coaches and gamers on the Ole Miss beat, the coaches and gamers at Mississippi State and Southern Miss, when I assist covering their groups, and, as recently as January, even Sanders, too.” CLICK ON THIS LINK TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPSaban was asked about the situation during an appearance at the SEC media day on Wednesday. ” Look, I react to practically anything and Ive been called almost whatever,” Saban stated, by means of AL.com. “Its not something thats essential to me.”” I believe everybody needs to have the chance to sort of make or produce their expectation of how they get addressed.”