Pro Football Hall of Famer Troy Aikman critiques NIL landscape, transfer rules and Lane Kiffin’s LSU move

For the past mates of decades, erstwhile NFL prima backmost and Pro Football Hall of Famer Troy Aikman has shared his thoughts connected what he’s seen during whichever crippled helium and his longtime broadcast spouse are calling.

The three-time Super Bowl victor is presently portion of the "Monday Night Football" broadcast crew. Aikman has routinely fixed his instrumentality connected a assortment of football-related topics, from the authorities of NFL officiating to assemblage football.

Some of Aikman’s latest thoughts astir the assemblage crippled centered connected the increasing fig of players who person taken vantage of the transportation portal successful today’s polarizing NIL landscape.

The erstwhile Dallas Cowboys backmost and galore others person referred to the authorities of today's athletics astatine the collegiate level arsenic the "Wild West."

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Hall of Fame backmost Troy Aikman stands with his Monday Night Football Broadcast announcer Joe Buck earlier a crippled betwixt the Pittsburgh Steelers and New York Giants astatine Acrisure Stadium.  (Barry Reeger/Imagn Images)

"College shot has go the Wild West, arsenic everybody knows. Forget astir Lane Kiffin for a minute, but starting with NIL, determination conscionable has been nary guardrails. I’m connected the National Football Foundation Board, truthful I perceive firsthand from a batch of the commissioners and diversion directors and the radical progressive successful each of that. It’s gotta get cleaned up, archetypal and foremost," Aikman told The Athletic.

When asked astir student-athletes’ mobility successful today’s world, Aikman reflected connected his idiosyncratic choices during his clip competing astatine the NCAA level.

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"I was a transfer. I went from Oklahoma to UCLA, and I’ve ever felt that if a manager is capable to prime up and leave, that a subordinate should person the aforesaid accidental if a manager leaves," helium continued.

UCLA backmost Troy Aikman (8) runs the shot during a assemblage shot crippled against Arizona connected Oct. 2, 1988, astatine Arizona Stadium successful Tucson, Ariz. (Mike Powell/Allsport/Getty Images)

"What’s happened evidently implicit the years since I got retired of assemblage shot is that successful caller years with NIL, there’s been nary accountability connected the players," Aikman continued. "So the players prime up and present they’re leaving each the clip whereas earlier it was typically the coach. The subordinate utilized to person to beryllium retired a year. Now, the players tin up and spell careless of whether oregon not they’ve been paid. It’s each antheral for himself."

Aikman past dived into different assemblage shot blistery taxable – Lane Kiffin’s determination to permission Ole Miss successful favour of LSU. The NFL expert gave his champion conjecture connected what fueled Kiffin to marque the leap.

"Lane Kiffin’s motivation? Is it his thoughts that it’s a amended accidental for him astatine LSU? Possibly. Is it money? Possibly. Is it lifestyle? Possibly. I can’t reply immoderate of those questions." 

Then-Ole Miss Rebels caput manager Lane Kiffin throws a shot earlier the crippled against the Oklahoma Sooners astatine Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium connected Oct. 25, 2025. (Kevin Jairaj/Imagn Images)

"But immoderate his information is, helium feels similar LSU is the close spot for him. So I don’t responsibility him for that astatine all. I cognize there’s ever hard feelings. Ole Miss did not privation to suffer Lane Kiffin," helium said. "Once helium made the determination to leave, present he’s a pariah. Let’s get this feline conscionable arsenic acold distant from america arsenic we can. I recognize that arsenic well. Everybody gets a small spot jaded."

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Aikman concluded that those successful positions of powerfulness should yet instrumentality complaint and absorption connected getting things successful order. "Where I’m astatine is I deliberation there’s gotta beryllium immoderate enactment astatine the precise apical that benignant of cleans each of this up. Starting with players that judge money, there’s gotta beryllium immoderate accountability and work connected their behalf to person to instrumentality with a program. I gave wealth to a kid. I won’t notation who. I’ve done it 1 clip astatine UCLA. Never met the young man. He was determination a year, helium near aft the year. I wrote a sizable check, and helium went to different school. I didn’t adjacent get truthful overmuch arsenic a convey you note."

Aikman is scheduled to beryllium connected the telephone for a Week 15 matchup betwixt the Pittsburgh Steelers and Miami Dolphins connected Dec. 15.

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