By Jay Berry
Deion Sanders is sick and tired of the tampering in college football. Sanders told the NCAA, “Y’all gotta do something,” during a recent Colorado spring practice.
“Don’t just sit there on your hands and open them up so everybody can grease your darn palms and make a ton of money off everybody and don’t have nothing to say about nothing. I don’t understand that part,” Sanders said.
“NCAA y’all gotta do something man”
Deion Sanders sat down with reporters yesterday to talk about the TRANSFER PORTAL and the NCAA👀 pic.twitter.com/K7qMVzfOM3
— Rivals High School (@Rivals_HS) April 18, 2025
This news came as Sanders called out the Virginia Cavaliers program for trying to poach a Colorado player with an NIL offer.
Sanders claimed safety, Carter Stoutmire was “offered a bag” to transfer. Since Stoutmire never entered the transfer portal, any team that contacted him would have violated NCAA rules.
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“Virginia, you got to stop,” Sanders said. “I let you have one. I ain’t say nothing about it. Come on now.”
https://twitter.com/_MLFootball/status/1913014660850471140
A Part of College Sports
The current setup of the transfer portal encourages players to look for other opportunities, especially without regulations on NIL. In this case, with Virginia, contacting a player who is not in the portal is even more extreme. Tampering with players has always happened, but the transfer portal and NIL make tampering even bigger.
Sanders confronted Stoutmire before the entire team and asked him to name the school involved. Once he revealed it was Virginia, Sanders didn’t hold back. He directly called out the Cavaliers, accusing them of trying to poach his players and urging them to stop.
While tampering is, and has been, part of college athletics for a long time. Sanders calling it out should not surprise anyone. He rebuilt the Colorado program through the transfer portal, and the way things are going to the extreme, it makes everyone’s job even more time-consuming and frustrating than before.
Colorado’s Portal Losses
According to 247Sports.com’s tracker, Colorado has seen one transfer come in (ex-Memphis wideout Xavier Hill) and multiple players have left since April 1—including four-star freshman wideout Adrian Wilson, one of the top players from Sanders’ 2024 recruiting class.
Other notable losses are edge Taje McCoy, who was third on the team in sacks and was a Big 12 Conference standout, and starting offensive lineman Cash Cleveland.
This is just another example of the crazy world of modern-day college football. Sanders has the platform and a massive following to push this message out, whether you love them or hate him. Decades ago, there was no social media, and the media world was different. Now, there are more eyes and ears and money than ever before.
Hopefully for the Buffaloes program and Sanders, they don’t get found doing any tampering,
