Amid one of the sport\u2019s most trying postseasons in recent memories, a lot has been made of the untenable current state of college football. Between \u201cblatant tampering\u201d accusations, star quarterbacks breaking contracts to join conference rivals and multiple court cases challenging NCAA eligibility rules, coaches and fans alike are demanding regulation.<\/p>\n
Fourth-year Colorado<\/a> head coach Deion Sanders<\/a> joined the chorus of collegiate coaches and administrators calling for change to the seemingly unregulated system, especially as it related to NIL and revenue-sharing, which has only further widened the gap between college football\u2019s haves and have-nots.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s tough, but I don\u2019t think what NIL is presenting is not sustainable. And often time it seems you see the same consistent teams winning and winning because of the finances that some of the boosters and donors can give. (So) that needs to be fixed,\u201d Sanders said Friday during an appearance on ESPN\u2019s First Take. \u201cAnd we need some kind of commissioner (or) somebody to step up and make sure we\u2019re doing this thing in unison. So that you don\u2019t have certain teams that are able to do well beyond what this team (can do), and you know this team is not going win because their lack of finances. <\/p>\n \u201cI love it that the kids can be compensated, but there should be rules and guidelines for that compensation, to hold them accountable to that.\u201d<\/p>\n In less than a year since the last Summer\u2019s\u00a0House settlement<\/a>\u00a0effectively ended the NCAA\u2019s outdated \u201camateur\u201d model and ushered in revenue-sharing with athletes, the NIL floodgates have only opened wider as well-financed programs like Indiana<\/a>, Miami<\/a> and Texas Tech<\/a> have dominated the sport by annually overhauling their roster through the transfer portal. This offseason, after leaving Ole Miss<\/a> ahead of the program\u2019s first-ever College Football Playoff run, new LSU<\/a> head coach Lane Kiffin<\/a> lived up to his \u201cPortal King\u201d moniker by securing the nation\u2019s No. 2-ranked 2026 transfer class with 40 new additions.<\/p>\n Last season, 2024 CFP champion\u00a0Ohio State<\/a>\u00a0had a NIL budget around $35 million, the Hurricanes were in the $30 million range, following closely by Texas Tech<\/a>\u00a0at over $28 million, while the newly-crowned national champion Hoosiers were \u201cjust under $20 million\u201d<\/a>\u00a0in NIL, per On3\u2019s\u00a0Pete Nakos<\/a>.<\/p>\n It\u2019s unclear where Colorado falls in that mix, though \u2014 just based on Sanders comments Friday \u2014 it\u2019s safe to assume it wasn\u2019t in the same ballpark as free-spending and defending Big 12 champion Red Raiders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amid one of the sport\u2019s most trying postseasons in recent memories, a lot has been made of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[26456,7,49,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-734194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-deion-sanders-85-north-fort-myers","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116025576997550719","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}