Great Read on the State of College Football Coaching

The useless contracts are ridiculous. In sports a team signs a head coach or player to a contract and your arse is there's unless they want to trade you, re-negotiate or dump you. Head coaches in college shouldn't just be able to get out of a contract and go to another college in the middle of a deal. We can complain about the money they're paid but there's nothing that's going to stop that.

 

The money makes sense. College sports actually bring in a lot of cash these days, so why would you not invest in it?

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That money goes right back in the school. I think a few million for a good coach is worth it.

With that, coaching is a legit career as well. Theres more money and chances to go to the NFL - every coaches dream. So theres more movement. The lack of real contracts is bull**** though.

 

Saying it goes "right back tot he school" is extremely vague and broad. How much of that money is going back into the athletic budgets? Facilities? Education?

Schools will never report that and all of the newly generated revenue (which is not sustainable unless winning is a constant) will go back into marketing and funding potential money makers for the athletics or facilities.

Clearly college (not just the athletic aspect, but colleges and universities in general) is increasingly becoming primarily a business first; students who pay increasing tuition, even at this "highly valued" athletic schools, aren't getting a "better" education. They're paying for the fallacy that is brand recognition ("fluff").

A Texas or USC degree will never be perceived as better than a Harvard or Yale degree just because those schools have better exposure with athletics.

I'm just waiting for University of Phoenix to start fielding a football team. That will officially be the end of "amateur" sports in college.

Essentially college football is arguably more appealing than the NFL. What's occurring with coaches' competitively increasing salaries is disturbing and the only way to "fix" it is to cap the salaries.

What will happen, though, is the same thing as with the Wall Street bankers proposed salary caps -- lucrative bonuses that are guaranteed. The best solution with this scenario is to simply pay the coaches for what they produce on the field. Standardize how much 7, 8, 9, or 10 wins are worth based on strength of schedule and rankings.

Small schools can't compete.

 

Money for athletics never comes from tuition. It comes from boosters and athletics revenues. So if anything goes to academics, its pure profit.

 

And thus, you've completely missed the various points mentioned.