It makes no sense. These guys don't coach pros. If college athletes don't get paid then coaches don't deserve to get paid too. They should get stipend pay like high school coaches
Take a step back. You are looking at it the wrong way. It has nothing to do with coaching professional vs college vs high school players. College football is all about money and coaches have a huge impact on athletic budgets and revenues. Think of them as CEOs of organizations. It makes total sense. There is no comparison with HS football at all. I agree it is a shame college FB coaches are paid high salaries on the backs of players. Same for men's college basketball. The current system will eventually change; not sure when and into what.
There are only like 10 college coaches that have a huge impact on athletic budgets and revenue. no one knows who the coach of Akron is yet he still received 900k last year, sorry but that is a joke. He probably makes more then all the C level executives
Young fella it's ALL about $$$. Yes it's college but some of these sports are big business (mainly football and basketball). You don't see the volleyball coach being paid millions. Also it's a known fact that when the football and basketball teams do good alums give more $ to the school.
They get paid that much because the market allows them to get paid that much. Being good at college sports, particularly football, is one of the best marketing tools for a university and also can bring in some money. As a result, a lot of universities value good coaching and are willing to pay a lot for it.
It's a great question. Our priorities are completely ****ed. You voted for the Toyota Center too, didn't you?
It's the free market. Although these are public universities, the fees are paid by the athletic departments that generate their own revenue. Are you proposing some kind of national legislation regulating salaries?
It sucks. Hard to blame the coaches for taking the money, but it would be nice if the money generated by football/basketball went back into the University to help the Students. A lot of schools actually struggle financially in football because of the cost of operating a quality program, which includes coaches. Then these coaches get massive payouts when they are fired and the school gets to pay multiple coaches at once.
Lol, it's the free market...unless you're a player in which case your wage is effectively fixed at 0. Coaches, administrators, etc siphon off the money that would accrue to the players.
How is worth determined? What pay scale? How would individual player salaries be determined? The whole issue how to do it. Put some meat on the bones for me.
This is pretty simple - producers will offer wages to laborers, individually, rather than as a cartel, against the backdrop of all applicable labor laws & protections. Not only is this not an unsolvable problem, it is a problem that you actually to have to try not to solve, by say, decades of collusion to fix wages at 0, as the NCAA cartel has done. As to whether the optimal approach is a truly unregulated market, in which schools can pay whatever they want, a salary cap approach based on "sports-related income" the way pro sports leagues do it, or a fixed salary scale based on seniority or something - I don't know? What I do know is that under all of those approaches the laborers are collectively better off than having their wage fixed at 0 as they more or less are in the current system.
