2020-21 CFB Coaching Carousel

The issue is those parents don’t care about rape or coaches banging escorts. They care about their kids’ playing time and developing the player into an NFL draft pick.

 

Dave Bliss played this card, too.

 

Bliss got plenty of second chances after Baylor, including at a private school in Bryan. He made a mess of that, too. Then he got hired at a charter school in Las Vegas, and shortly after he got there, the middle school -- the middle school! -- basketball team had to forfeit a couple of games.

Past, present haunt Dave Bliss at Las Vegas charter school

 

It’s so great that the State of Alabama is doing so well they could pay to $21.7 million to a dumbass cracker football coach rather than provide education, health care, housing and law enforcement to its citizens. I don’t give a shit if Good Ole Gus is a nice guy who helps little old ladies across the street to the methadone clinic. Or if it comes from the Boosters. It’s disgusting.

 

Of course it is. Infuriating. Angering. Stipulated ...

But any worse than newspaper executives who oversees thousands of employees laid off, doles out lavish bonuses to board members and executives, then walks off with seven- and eight-figure golden parachutes plus stock options? Or a CEO of a well-established company who does the same on his/her way out of the door, similarly compensated?

Not really. It's the cost of doing business with D-I football coaches at that level. It doesn't make it right. FWIW, I don't agree with it, either. But none of them are asking me, and none of them care about what I think.

 

That's the thing - giving the big payout to the exiting coach has nothing to do with the exiting coach - it's to attract a better coach who wants to make sure he'll be taken care of if things go south.

 

And it’s not much better if it’s a private university. They all get enough public funding or tax abatements that without state support the school would fail.

It’s just the bullshit “Leader of Men” that gets infuriating. They are selfish whores and the best that can be said about the best of them is that they are indifferent to education.

 

Yeah. But when alums stake their pride on a football program, this happens. Not a breakthrough at the medical school, not the discovery of a vaccine to cure a disease or to end a pandemic. But did "we" (*puke*) beat Archrival U.?

Perspective gets lost. It's no longer your school, its graduates, what they're doing in the real world or how they're making a difference in the real world. It's "did you beat Archrival U.?" When they do - especially if they do so repeatedly and especially if they do so after reversing a string of losses to Archrival U. - they'll push the "Leader of Men" BS and offer the coaches more money than anyone on campus. More than the Chancellor/University President. More than the Dean of the Medical School. More than anyone else.

It's out of whack. But that's the market, that's the law of supply and demand and it has become the world we live in.

 

And like what the media failed to do with trump, they failed to do with this. Every decent sportsjournalist should have a story and column or 2 about this situation. Not the jock-lickers with fake indignation like Bilas, but the real journalists. We’re in a pandemic bordering on depression and civil war and fat slobs who make millions to yell at kids are still glorified but morally and economically.

Smart people with a voice need to speak out. Righteous indignation is most writers favorite subject. And when they are rightfully righteously indigant, it has meaning.

 

Stuff like this is why I’m glad I went to a D-III school. Sports are important, and my alma mater generally has a good program (Football and hoops teams win their conference and go to NCAAs every few years; lacrosse and baseball and softball teams are usually nationally ranked), but priorities are in order. Athletes go to school to go to school. Most games are on weekends, and rarely out of state except for baseball and softball, which get a few weekends down South in February and March and a week in Florida for spring break. The teams are taking bus rides instead of flying across the country during the school week. Students get in for free with a few exceptions (football rivalry game), and adults pay a few bucks.

Sure, I sometimes wish that I could have gone to big-time games, but then again, I rarely went even when I was in school, as the beer kegs were always calling my name. But at least, I know my school isn’t selling out for wins.

 

If you’re the general counsel of a D1 school with a big time football or basketball program and you can’t find a breach by the head coach, you are committing malpractice and should Be disbarred

 

It is not the law of supply and demand. The rules prohibit the payment of the athletes, i.e. price controls. When a market has price controls competition will place in other ways such as devoting excessive resources to coach's salaries, fancy locker rooms, ad infinitum.