Deion Sanders proposed paying College Football Playoff participants and awarding larger payouts to players on winning teams to equalize compensation. Sanders and Nick Saban appeared in an Aflac commercial framed around health insurance and the sport's growing unpredictability. Sanders reported a full recovery from bladder cancer and described renewed fitness routines. Saban expressed willingness to help stabilize college sports but declined a commissioner role. Both emphasized the need for clearer structure around player deals. Since July 1, institutions can begin distributing up to $20.5 million each to athletes under the House settlement, alongside third-party NIL agreements that have created some millionaire players.
Leave it to Deion Sanders to come up with an idea for the College Football Playoff that nobody has really mentioned yet: Pay the players for making the tournament, and pay them more when their teams win.If they do that, then "now it's equality, now it's even and every player is making the same amount of money," the Colorado coach said.Sanders and former Alabama coach Nick Saban talked to The Associated Press as part of their unveiling of a new Aflac commercial that rolls out this week with a storyboard ripped from today's headlines: It opens with Sanders complaining: "This game has gotten out of control. All the money. All the unpredictability."
Saban will be back on the set with ESPN in his second year of "retirement" after leaving the Crimson Tide, where he won six national titles. He insists he wants to help college sports find its footing, but not via a commissioner job that was floated last year with his name coming up as the ideal fit. "I don't want to be in that briar patch of being a commissioner, but I do want to do everything I can to make it right," he said.
He and Sanders agreed that there needs to be more structure around deals players sign. Since July 1, schools have been able to start paying up to $20.5 million each to their athletes over the next year under the House settlement alongside third-party NIL deals that have turned some players into millionaires.
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