- Aug 31, 2014
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We are only half way through the hiring/firing/resigning season, and if anything is evident, it is that big time college football is big time money. To be clear, I am not talking about Mt. St Mary college, but the P5 programs. If you step back for a moment and realize the sums of money that is being thrown around. $10 million buyouts are pushed aside with not even a recognition to hire someone for $70 million, that's not including the ballooning staff salaries where coordinators are making million dollar salaries. I'm sorry, someone will have to specifically outline to me how "college football programs are all running at a deficit". If they are running at a deficit, then how do they come up with these exponentially growing $$s? Given these $ amounts that are coming from the game, why shouldn't players at these programs not get paid something more than just their scholarship?
In my opinion, big time college football is getting dangerously close to a commercialized product like the NFL. Not sure there is a way to put the genie back in the bottle. I really envision a college "league" made up of the P5 teams, conferences being eliminated, a commissioner hired, tv contracts and endorsement deals, playoffs and a "super bowl". Maybe its just a burrito I ate last night....
In my opinion, big time college football is getting dangerously close to a commercialized product like the NFL. Not sure there is a way to put the genie back in the bottle. I really envision a college "league" made up of the P5 teams, conferences being eliminated, a commissioner hired, tv contracts and endorsement deals, playoffs and a "super bowl". Maybe its just a burrito I ate last night....