Colorado HC Deion Sanders Believes CFB Needs A Salary Cap

This stuff has gone crazy. Nobody knows where it's going to land, where it's going to end

Coach PrimeTime Deion Sanders is calling for a major change to the way college football team’s are being constructed.

Colorado coach Deion Sanders is advocating for a salary cap in college football in order to help even out the competitive landscape in a sport that is quickly becoming more similar to the NFL.“This stuff has gone crazy. Nobody knows where it’s going to land, where it’s going to end,” he said during Big 12 Media Days at The Star on Wednesday.

The Pro Football Hall of Famer spoke at Big 12 media day and said that the sport is being hurt by an unregulated system with player movement and finances. On July 1, the House settlement allowed schools to share up to $20.5 million in revenue in Year 1 with athletes across sports on campus. Some third-party collectives representing schools, however, have signed athletes to contracts before the settlement, using money from collectives that doesn’t count toward the revenue-sharing total. Sanders also took aim at tampering with rosters. Some collectives will lure players into the portal with promises of paydays larger than what they’re currently earning.

“I would see a player and see he got an offer from another school, and I’m tyring to figure out … how is that possible when the guys isn’t in the portal? How is that?” Sanders said. “Now, if that was one of my players, y’all would be all over it. I’m trying to figure out how can somebody say, ‘You’ve got a $5 million offer.’ How? And the kid isn’t in the portal. We need to be upright and upstanding.”