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re: Saban mentioned it last weekend
Posted on 5/15/24 at 12:26 am to hwyman108
Posted on 5/15/24 at 12:26 am to hwyman108
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Don’t pay them anything but a chance to earn a higher education.
It sickened me how that was always dismissed by the bleeding hearts that pushed for paying players. The players got a ton of value out of scholarships.
That said, we’re passed that now. Hard to make an argument when the optics of coaches making $100 million contracts.
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Posted on 5/15/24 at 10:47 am to FairhopeTider
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Hard to make an argument when the optics of coaches making $100 million contracts
That's kind of why it all boiled over so quickly the last 10 years or so after decades of status quo. Schools started giving out these insane contracts to coaches to prevent anyone from trying to hire them away. When we hired Saban that initial 8/$32 million deal was huge even with his track record. Now $4 million annually is like major conference HC entry level pay. Win 10 games in year 2 and get a 50-75% raise. It's impossible to expect the players to be content with a free college education when they know the school is not only happy to pay their coach millions every year but it's happy to pay him that much to sit on his arse at home if he doesn't win enough games to justify the salary he didn't earn in the first place.
Posted on 5/16/24 at 12:20 pm to FairhopeTider
You could take these same college and high school seniors and form a paid (professional) league but dont attach a college name to the teams, and almost no one would give a flip about watching it. And these same coaches wouldnt get paid squat to coach them. Their value is almost totally attached to having the name of a certain college school on their back.
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