Deion Sanders says faculty soccer wants wage cap

FRISCO, Texas — Colorado coach Deion Sanders is advocating for a wage cap in faculty soccer, noting that it could assist even out the aggressive panorama in a sport that’s already changing into extra just like the NFL.

Talking Wednesday at Huge 12 media days, Sanders, the Professional Soccer Corridor of Famer getting into his third season as Colorado’s coach, mentioned the game is damage by an unregulated system with participant motion and funds.

“I want there was a cap,” Sanders mentioned throughout a Huge 12 coaches’ roundtable. “Like, the top-of-the-line participant makes this, and when you’re not that kind of man, you already know you are not going to make that. That is what the NFL does.

“So the issue is, you bought a man that is not that darn good, however he may go to a different faculty they usually give him a half million {dollars}. You possibly can’t compete with that. And it do not make sense.”

Sanders pointed to the Faculty Soccer Playoff, nothing that the identical groups will make the sector due to their stronger monetary profiles.

“You perceive darn close to why they’re within the playoffs,” he mentioned. “It is sort of arduous to compete with any person who’s giving $25-30 million to a freshman class. It is loopy.”

Sanders added that faculty soccer wants an “upright and upstanding” system the place participant salaries are clear and controlled, like within the NFL. He talked about that wage affords are sometimes reported earlier than gamers even enter the switch portal.

Even current developments such because the Home settlement and income sharing instantly from athletic packages do not give Sanders confidence that the game will stability out.

“I want it was really equality,” he mentioned. “Now they return to doing stuff below the desk. They return to the brokers. Now you have received dad and mom attempting to be brokers, you have received the homeboys attempting to be brokers, you have received the chums attempting to be brokers. You bought a whole lot of bull junk happening. And fairly frankly, we’re sick of it. I am going to say it for everyone: We’re sick of it.”