Kansas football entered the season with one of the most experienced rosters in the country, with 38 players participating in Senior Day for the Jayhawks. Lance Leipold will have to make up for the team’s losses via the portal, and the Jayhawks made their first transfer addition for next season earlier this month by bringing in Bangally Kamara.
The former Pittsburgh and South Carolina linebacker committed to Kansas to fill the voids Taiwan Berryhill and JB Brown will leave when they graduate. However, he won’t be joining the program with traditional NIL benefits. Kamara will collect revenue through revenue sharing, which will officially begin in the upcoming academic year.
Kansas linebacker Bangally Kamara, a transfer from South Carolina, has signed a lucrative revenue sharing agreement in 2025, his agents @callmeagentdwil and @FCProspects_ tell ESPN.
— . (@ESPNRittenberg) November 26, 2024
Bangally Kamara signs revenue sharing agreement with Kansas football
According to ESPN's Adam Rittenberg, Kamara signed a 'lucrative' agreement with the school to join next year's roster. He redshirted the 2024 season to play with the Jayhawks next year.
Unlike NIL, which relies on third-party collectives, revenue sharing permits schools to distribute their own funds to schools. The NCAA will allow colleges to give up to 22% of their annual revenue to athletes, coming out to $21 million per year or so.
Since the University of Kansas decides how the money is allocated, Leipold and Co. must have gotten approval from the school to support the move. The Associated Press estimates $1 billion to $1.5 billion to be given to student-athletes annually.
Kamara should be a Day 1 starter the second he steps onto campus. The super-senior has recorded 129 tackles, 13 tackles for loss, five sacks, and one interception in his college career, adding a forced fumble and eight pass deflections. He was a full-time starter at Pitt in 2023.
While Kamara was expected to play a role on this year’s Gamecocks squad, he transferred midseason despite the wishes of his coaching staff. Kansas is glad to have him, and the school became one of the first to utilize revenue sharing.