Kelvin Sampson bemoans Houston NIL budget: 'We're poor'

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Houston coach Kelvin Sampson said his top-10 team can't sign more recruits because the school's athletic department is "very poor."

After the eighth-ranked Cougars' 79-55 victory Wednesday over UCF, Sampson said his team's greatest hurdle in recruiting is a lack of funding.

"We have a very poor athletic department," he said. "We're poor. We were poor when I got here, and we're still poor.

"We probably have the lowest budget of anybody in Power 4. The way our recruiting is going, we have to stop at some point because we don't have the money to keep bringing in many good players. And that's…