Report: Top 2027 Football Recruits Are Making Wild Demands
The recruiting cycle for the Class of 2027 is underway, as college football programs are doing what they can to secure commitments from the top players in the country.
While some of the top 2027 college football recruits have already announced their commitments, several top players remain uncommitted. Seven of the top 15 recruits in 247Sports' rankings for the 2027 class have yet to commit. There are a lot of big-time players still up for grabs.
Recruiting is a different beast now.
High school recruits are demanding big-time offers - not just in the form of a scholarship - from college football programs, thanks to NIL. College football programs have to pay up - sometimes in more ways than one.
According to a new report from On3's Pete Nakos, top 2027 high school football recruits are making some wild demands, including:
- Seven-figure guaranteed offers right out of high school
- Massive multi-year deals
- One prospect even asked for a sauna to be built at his parents' house
This is where we're at in college football.
Nick Saban thinks that urgent changes are needed
The legendary Alabama coach, who know what it's like to recruit top prospects, thinks that the playing field needs to be leveled.
"One team shouldn't have a $40 million roster and another team have a $5 million roster, and they're out there playing each other. There should be some kind of -- every league, NFL, basketball, hockey -- they all have a salary cap or something that creates parity in the league so everybody has an equal opportunity to win," he told Paul Finebaum.
Saban thinks the coaching landscape has changed, too.
"The best traditional jobs are no longer the best traditional jobs. The people who have the most money have the best opportunity to win. That's the way it is. Just because you have great tradition doesn't mean if you don't have the support to pay the players, other teams are gonna do better than you."
It's a different time in the sport, that's for sure.
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This story was originally published April 30, 2026 at 7:00 PM.