(05-01-2022 12:57 PM)Luckeyone Wrote: I’m not a big fan of these coaches making this ridiculous amount of money. Call it sour grapes or whatever you want but I think these salaries have gotten out of hand. Certainly a good coach institutes many factors into his program to WIN but let’s face it, great players play an even larger role i basketball. I guess this is the reason why players deserve NIL deals.
https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiECQ...id=US%3Aen
In fact since coaches can change schools annually, we might as well as let players too providing they have the credit hours.
Lucky great players do win the games, but the coaches build the programs that repeatedly get great players. Alabama has been the epitome of success in college football for the past 14 years. No player, however, has spent more than four seasons there, the common denominator of success is clearly Nick Saban and I suspect that Alabama would regard the money they are paying him as dollars well spent.
If the NCAA is going to allow the procession of its athletes into a quasi-pro like state, why not do the same for coaches? An NFL coach under contract, cannot leave his current team like Brian Kelly and Lincoln Riley did this year with a simple contract buyout. Bill Belichick, Bill Parcells, Jon Guden, Herm Edwards and Mike Holmgren left NFL teams to another, but compensation was required for them to do so. Why not require Alabama to pay Buffalo $2M or so besides buying out his contract, to snare Nate Oats to coach basketball? NCAA coaches have had it too good, for too long. Oats had a "safety net" when he signed an extension with Buffalo, he was in a no-lose situation. That needs to change in my opinion.
Now I'm going to get kinda crazy. Why not offer athletes a defined term of scholarship? Yes, a contract of sorts as we are emulating the pro sports model. EMU recruits a Mo Njie and offers him a one-year scholarship. He then is free to transfer immediately after his first season. If EMU, however, signs him to four years, Mo would need to sit out a season before he transfers, the price of breaking his contract. Of course, if Mo is a dud, EMU is obligated to provide him with eight semesters of scholarship benefits.
Hey, I'm not embracing the relaxed transfer rules and NIL, I'm just thinking how to live equitably within them.