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re: Has college football lost its soul?
Posted on 1/26/24 at 6:42 am to Shamoan
Posted on 1/26/24 at 6:42 am to Shamoan
It lost its soul once Saban came to bama and coaches started becoming millionaires.
Tailgating turned into a luxury pursuit. On campus parking all but died. Marching bands are now drowned out by DJs, ever-louder club music and led light shows. Buying "official" team gear is expensive. News on any big team is tightly controlled by universities in intelligence agency fashion. Tickets are too expensive for most families.
This is all before NIL and the portal. It made NIL and the portal inevitable.
Tailgating turned into a luxury pursuit. On campus parking all but died. Marching bands are now drowned out by DJs, ever-louder club music and led light shows. Buying "official" team gear is expensive. News on any big team is tightly controlled by universities in intelligence agency fashion. Tickets are too expensive for most families.
This is all before NIL and the portal. It made NIL and the portal inevitable.
This post was edited on 1/26/24 at 6:43 am
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Posted on 1/26/24 at 7:11 am to AUCom96
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It lost its soul once Saban came to bama and coaches started becoming millionaires.
Bobby Bowden was making over $2 million after bonuses (with the salary just under 1 million) way back in 1995.
Spurrier was up to $2 million by 1997, and the average head coach was at $417,000 by 1998.
By 2004 over 20 coaches were making over a million dollars.
Les Miles was given a contract that ensured he would be the highest paid coach in the SEC in 2008 - he was assured a match of the highest paid coach, plus $1,000 to make sure he was the highest paid.
Dave Aranda was paid $2.5 million in 2018 by LSU to be a defensive coordinator - which had him making more than 70 FBS head coaches at the time.
Blaming Saban and Alabama shows a very limited understanding of the history of coaches' salaries.
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