Deion Sanders has a problem with the way money earned under the The NCAA’s new name, image and likeness rules pushes some athletes to act.
Jackson State football coach tagged the NCAA in a Twitter post Wednesday with a one-minute video explaining its position on the subject.
“When you start paying athletes like they’re professionals, you get athletes who act like they’re professionals,” Sanders said. “And you don’t have a team big enough and equipped enough to handle a young man who has money. Let me go one step further. Manage a young man who makes more money than some of the coaches on staff .”
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The path Sanders wants the NCAA to address is to add more members to the football staff.
“I suggest you allow college teams to hire more qualified men. Qualified. That can handle these young men getting this money,” Sanders said.
Sanders said smaller schools such as Jackson State can’t compete with the amount Power 5 schools pay.
“You see, with NIL, which really isn’t NIL because there’s no name, image and likeness, it’s just pay-per-view at the moment,” said Sanders. “That’s what they do in the big ones, the little ones, we can’t compete with that. But either way, you have a problem,” he added.
Sanders said he brought attention to the problem because he was trying to help before the problem got worse.
“I’m trying to help you before this blows up in your face. Money makes you value more of who you really are. Now think about that for a minute,” Sanders wrote on Twitter.
