Colorado Buffaloes football coach Deion Sanders accused of switching up on NIL salary cap with Shedeur, Shilo, Travis Hunter gone

Colorado Buffaloes football coach Deion Sanders wants an NIL salary cap. Some think that’s convenient timing with Shedeur and Shilo Sanders, and Travis Hunter, off to the NFL and out of Boulder.

Cam Newton shared Coach Prime’s opinion on a college football salary cap with that timing in mind.

“It may be the unpopular opinion. Yeah. But was Prime worried about this when his sons was there? I would say no. You want to know why? Because he wasn’t going to let nobody just handle his sons anyway,” Newton said on the “4th&1” podcast.

“If somebody would have brokered a $1.7 million deal, he knew at the end of the day, it would have been fair. It would have been what he would have deemed as a father to say, ‘No, bro, we’re not giving you no 30%. Like, bro, we going to give you 3% or we going to give you a flat fee.’ That’s what he would have did for his son.

“He can’t do that with other people’s sons. So with that, this is where college football is now.”

Locked On Buffs’ Kevin Borba believes Sanders is set to see his wish soon.

“I think people have this thought he’s going to leave for another coaching job. I firmly believe that if Deion Sanders leaves Colorado, it’s not going to be to coach. I think it’s going to be to step away from coaching, to step into the media again, or just give himself a break,” Borba said.

“I don’t think there’s going to be a job out there that, one, gives him the systematic support from the top down, like Rick George; he is very supportive of him, and lets him do whatever he wants, pretty much.”

If that’s the case, Sanders’ two sons, and his non-biological son and No. 1 prospect he’s ever recruited, made out like bandits before the sport changed.

Perhaps they’re part of the reason why that change is happening. Shedeur, Shilo, and Hunter were the NIL wild west’s top money-getters when NIL was at its peak.