Drastic times call for drastic measures.

Deion Sanders has taken some flak for the overhaul of the Colorado roster. “Coach Prime” has 51 players who have transferred into a program which managed just one win a season ago.

According to 247Sports rankings, he has the No. 1 transfer portal class in the country.

He isn’t apologizing for the turnover in his program. In fact, he is defending it.

“I was the genesis coming in, and now there’s exodus,” Sanders said in an interview on “The Joel Klatt Show.”

“When the President gets into office, what happens to the cabinet? He enacts his agenda. What I am doing is no different than any CEO, any person of status that has claimed a position. I got to get it right. I ain’t looking at yesterday, and I’m not looking forward to tomorrow. I’m looking at now. My feelings, thoughts and understanding are that I got to get it right now. Let’s go get it now.”

Sanders went on to explain he doesn’t have a problem with NIL. Collectives, however, are a different story.

“What kid out of high school is notable enough that a CEO of a major company is going lay it on the line land for a kid nobody knows?” Sanders asked. “There are maybe four guys in all of college football that we’ve seen in a commercial nationally. We happen to have two here in Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter. Collectives, you could be Tom, Dick, Harry and Larry, and you just put a bag together. Boosters or whatever, try to solicit these kids to come to your university. Who is that helping? I want the kid to get compensated. I want him to be straight. But you got to balance the fine line. Is he still going to want it like that when you’ve just given him that, and he didn’t have to earn it?

“I wish there was a way to measure your ability and what you bring to the table before.”

Mark Heim is a reporter for The Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Mark_Heim. He can be heard on “The Opening Kickoff” on WNSP-FM 105.5 FM in Mobile or on the free Sound of Mobile App from 6 to 9 a.m. daily.