Much like many others in and around the sport of college football, Deion Sanders has made it very clear that he has a serious problem with players like Brendan Sorsby gambling on the sport they play.
“Somebody’s gambling on a sport they’re playing? You don’t think something’s wrong with that?” Deion Sanders said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. “Just say that to yourself: This guy on my team is gambling on the sport, in the competition, that we’re about to go out there and have. Something’s wrong that.”
Sorsby, who admitted to placing 40 bets on Indiana football games while he was a member of the team, filed a lawsuit against the NCAA after it ruled him ineligible to compete in 2026. Sorsby eventually received an injunction that would have allowed him to take the field for Texas Tech, but he has since decided to enter the NFL’s supplemental draft (while still keeping all of the NIL money the Red Raiders paid him, despite not playing a game for them).
“The game is still the game,” Sanders continued. “The game is just positioned differently. Money’s involved, and any time money’s involved people tend to migrate to what they think they can get out of it, instead of what they could put into it — and that’s unfortunate.”
The Brendan Sorsby ruling isn’t the only problem Deion Sanders has with college football today
Deion Sanders also believes the spending in college football is getting out of hand. His solution is to implement a salary cap like the NFL uses.
“So you can really have a consistency with the game,” Sanders said. “The thing about the pro game, everybody gets to spend the same amount of money. It’s who is crafty in regard to business. College football isn’t like that. You may have a team that’s spent $40 million playing against a team who spent $10 million. You darn well know the outcome in that game.”
He also has a problem with players constantly transferring, playing for significantly longer than four years, and players who are significantly older than the average college student competing.
“You can’t have a 30-year-old man playing against a 21-year old man and think it’s fair,” he said. “Should be a transfer rule as well. You’re teaching kids not to fight through adversity when you’re having kids able to transfer two or three or four times.”