Colorado Buffaloes football coach Deion Sanders wants more money to spend on NIL, his coaching staff, and improved facilities at CU. At Big 12 Football Media Days, Coach Prime sounded jealous of what Joey McGuire has with a $28 million Texas Tech Red Raiders NIL payroll.
Sanders wants a salary cap in college football because Colorado can’t pull that off, and he likely foresees issues competing in a Big 12 where the Buffs are not top spenders anymore after Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter’s departures.
Urban Meyer believes Sanders is asking the supposed big spenders, like the Alabama Crimson Tide and Ohio State Buckeyes, to make concessions akin to what teams like the Los Angeles Dodgers would need to if the MLB did something similar.
Meyer doesn’t believe that would, or should, happen.
“It will never happen. It will never happen because Colorado is not the same as Ohio State and Alabama and big market cities that have alumni that are willing to do that,” Meyer said on “The Triple Option” podcast.
“It’s like Major League Baseball… You’ve got the left side of the Dodgers’ infield making more than most major league teams. That’s going to happen.”
Alabama isn’t quite the big spender many believe it to be. The Crimson Tide weren’t a top-10 spending team this offseason, despite their top-three recruiting finish during the 2025 cycle.
Other than that, Meyer has a point. Sanders is getting what he bargained for in Boulder, Colorado.
After all, Sanders was accused of having shirked responsibilities at Big 12 Football Media Days.
That’s the sort of thing he gets to do that he’d never be able to in Columbus, Ohio, or Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
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Publish date : 2025-07-17 02:54:00
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