2020-21 CFB Coaching Carousel

It is the law of supply and demand. A lack of exemplary coaches, therefore they get premium rates, guaranteed multi-year contracts and various perks.

It's good that athletes get full scholarships. If they're given enough time away from the field, film room and weight room to give their academic loads the time they deserve, that's one thing. But at how many Power Five programs where the head coaches are paid multi-million-dollar salaries and everyone else - even the weightlifting coaches, consultants and quality control coaches earn six figures - are the players allowed to to actually worry about academics?

 

The money goes tot he coaches in large part because the players can not earn market rates.

If there was a truly free market do you think Kentucky would pay Calipari nine million dollars a year and the players whatever they get under the table? In a free market McDonald's All-Americans would get 500k or whatever above the table and the coaches less.

I will offer this example. If Kentucky traded Calipari to the University of Colorado who would have a better team this season? I think Kentucky because they have more talent. But Calipari makes probably six times what Boyle makes largely because of his ability to recruit, In a truly free market the school with the highest pay scale would generally get the best talent and hence have the ebst team.

 

OC Yost is out.
Texas Tech fires offensive coordinator David Yost, keeps head coach Matt Wells (dallasnews.com)

 

Calipari doesn’t have to produce a profit, just maintain a competitive advantage. Profits are not the driving force because profits are established before Midnight Madness. If profits drove the bus wouldn’t Duke be playing in the basketball equivalent of Dallas’ AT&T Stadium?

if the big programs didn’t overcompensate the head coach, they could fund wrestling and diving and all the Olympic style track and field disciplines, men’s and women’s.

 

Yosted.

 

Details of Shane Beamer's contract at South Carolina

 

It's a couple of days old but I don't think I've seen it mentioned. Butch Jones to Arkansas St.

Jones named Ark. St. coach, credits Bama 'clinic'

 

It is more profitable to paly basketball in a smaller arena and sell premium seats. That sounds absurd but is true. The NBA attendance record of 1.072,000 is held by Minnesota the year they played in Humphrey Dome before they moved to a smaller, 19,000 seat arena. The second highest attendance is Seattle when they played in the King Dome and the Supersonics soon moved to a smaller facility.

And if profit is not the primary motive of college sports what is the motivation for all the conference reshuffling?

 

You’re right. My Stupid post

 

Another graduate of the Nick Saban coaching rehab program.

 

So they floated the Art Briles trial balloon, didn’t get enough $ and decided to keep the current guy if he agreed to whack the OC.

 

The problem is the breach may lead to NCAA penalties.