re: Saban extending at Alabama at 7.2m/year

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One of the poorest states in the country with the lowest number of college graduates but Yea!!! Let's pay our College Football Coach 7.2 million per year

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Football helps keep the money flowing at the schools, like it or not, which leads to better facilities for the whole student body. Without football, UA/AU might be like the Mississippi schools academically.

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One of the poorest states in the country with the lowest number of college graduates but Yea!!! Let's pay our College Football Coach 7.2 million per year

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Alabama's athletic department brought in $67.7 million in revenue and had a $7.1 million surplus the year before his arrival, according to figures compiled by USA Today. Last fiscal year, Alabama's athletic revenue was $124.5 million and its profit was $19.4 million.

Football alone produced $82 million in revenue and had a profit of $45.1 million.

The only college football programs with greater revenue than Alabama during the last fiscal year were Texas ($103.8 million) and Michigan ($85.2 million).

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One of the poorest states in the country with the lowest number of college graduates but Yea!!! Let's pay our College Football Coach 7.2 million per year

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All the more reason to pay him more. Football revenues are recycled through athletic departments and then returned to the schools themselves. The schools then work to better the states they're in.

So, if a school like Alabama is seeing record football revenues (which inevitably make their way back to the school), why would investing more money in such a process be anything but good?