Jackson State head coach Deion Sanders abruptly walked out of SWAC Media Day availability on Tuesday for being referred to solely by his first name.
Sanders, who finished 4–3 in his first season as a head coach, demanded that reporters not refer to him by his first name after he was called Deion by the Clarion Ledger's Nick Suss.
"You don't call Nick Saban, 'Nick.' Don't call me Deion," Sanders told Suss, per the Clarion Ledger's Langston Newsome. "If you call Nick (Saban), Nick, you'll get cussed out on the spot, so don't do that to me.