They play Louisiana-Monroe on Saturday.
Easy to understand why kids want to play for him.
"Normally you just get paid to go to get beat, right?" Sanders said Monday during a conference call with Southwestern Athletic Conference media. "That's really the goal, right? Somebody pays you, your program makes more money than they normally will to go get your butt kicked.
"I don't believe in that."
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"Normally when you play against a powerhouse like I see some of the HBCU schools have taken, it helps the budget, but it kills the morale," Sanders said. "How can getting your butt kicked, I mean really kicked, help you as a team? Financially, cool. All money ain't good money."
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"We just want to go out there and execute, do what we're blessed to do," Sanders said. "Excel. We're going to find out who some players really are this week because you're going to have a real formidable opponent that we're supposed the lose by all accounts. We weren't supposed to be in this game, right? We get paid to get beat, right?"
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"If they don't practice, they're not going to play, and if they don't perform well in practice, they're not going to start," Sanders said. "That's how we go about practicing. The thought process of building up to Saturday. Saturday starts today, man. It doesn't start on Saturday. It starts today."
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He’s out there challenging some of the norms of HBCU football. He had some good quotes about putting names on the jerseys. He offered to pay for every team in the SWAC to do it.