re: CKD and NIL

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There was a time when a few parents actually paid the head coach at Alabama to play their kid.

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I think one difference is generally, coaches have to prove themselves to reach the big $$$. These HS kids have NEVER played a single down of college football. They're getting their money solely on potential. Some are pretty safe bets to be really good players in college. There are also invariably some HS players who never (for whatever reason) never do anything at the college level.

College coaches also have to spend WAY, WAY longer in their careers before they make good money and prove themselves over time (years and years) before then. Some HS kids have played ONE YEAR of HS football and can generate seven figures in NIL as a recruit.

I mean, both can be wrong. Saban really kind of inadvertently fricked all that up by being so wildly, consistently successful that he broke the way coaching salaries scale. The peak of the GOAT's career coinciding with a massive explosion in revenue made it where damn near everyone got a big raise in response to Saban getting a raise for adding yet another conference and/or national championship trophy to the case, regardless of whether any of them actually did shite to deserve it. And if you actually managed to pull off the head to head upset you were set for life. Gus Malzahn no more deserved the tens of millions Auburn paid him than some 17 year old deserves $1 million for dominating high school competition.

Y’all keep saying “agents” in regards to coaches salaries, but there’s only one: Jimmy Sexton. And until someone draws a line in the sand, it’s going to continue to escalate. And someone is going to say you can’t, he controls the industry. That’s exactly why you HAVE to. He will continue to push the envelope until he’s made to quit.
And don’t blame CNS for AD’s acting like idiots. He had shown pretty clearly that he was on a level all his own by 2010. So what idiot gives $10 million to a Gus Malzahn for a couple of wins over him? Or to Lincoln Riley? Or Brian Kelly? Or Dabo? At least Dabo had a run there where he looked pretty historic, but then the game changed, he lost some key assistants and he is floundering now. Saban could still be winning at a high level, but he would be miserable doing it under today’s conditions and it would be exponentially harder.
It’s quite simple: greed, ignorance, and immediate gratification have decimated college football.