Deion advocates for salary cap in college football

FRISCO, Texas -- Colorado manager Deion Sanders is advocating for a wage headdress successful assemblage football, noting that it would assistance adjacent the competitory scenery successful a athletics that is already becoming much similar the NFL.

Speaking Wednesday astatine Big 12 media days, Sanders, the Pro Football Hall of Famer entering his 3rd play arsenic Colorado's coach, said the athletics is wounded by an unregulated strategy with subordinate question and finances.

"I privation determination was a cap," Sanders said during a Big 12 coaches' roundtable. "Like, the top-of-the-line subordinate makes this, and if you're not that benignant of guy, you cognize you're not going to marque that. That's what the NFL does.

"So the occupation is, you got a feline that's not that darn good, but helium could spell to different schoolhouse and they springiness him a fractional cardinal dollars. You can't vie with that. And it don't marque sense."

Sanders pointed to the College Football Playoff, thing that the aforesaid teams volition marque the tract due to the fact that of their stronger fiscal profiles.

"You recognize darn adjacent wherefore they're successful the playoffs," helium said. "It's benignant of hard to vie with idiosyncratic who's giving $25-30 cardinal to a freshman class. It's crazy."

Sanders added that assemblage shot needs an "upright and upstanding" strategy wherever subordinate salaries are transparent and regulated, similar successful the NFL. He mentioned however subordinate wage offers are often reported earlier those players adjacent participate the transportation portal.

Even caller developments, similar the House colony and gross sharing straight from diversion programs, don't springiness Sanders assurance that the athletics volition equilibrium out.

"I privation it was genuinely equality," helium said. "Now they spell backmost to doing worldly nether the table. They spell backmost to the agents. Now, you've got parents trying to beryllium agents, you've got the homeboys trying to beryllium agents, you've got the friends trying to beryllium agents. You got a batch of bull junk going on. And rather frankly, we're sick of it. I'll accidental it for everybody: We're sick of it."