College football needs to place a moratorium on the use of the words loyalty and commitment.
Everybody involved, coaches, administrators and, yes, even players have ceded the right to demand it from others.
“I think what we have created is a disloyal business model,” said Gerry DiNardo, a former college football coach and current Big Ten network analyst. “I’m convinced this is no longer an educational endeavor. This is a completely business endeavor. Young coaches enter the profession now knowing they can be millionaires.”
The latest coach to toss loyalty aside to scoop up a few more million is
Mel Tucker, who was hired away from Colorado by Michigan State on Wednesday.
A little more than a year ago, Colorado made Tucker a very rich man with a $14.8 million deal over five years in December 2018 to rebuild a football program that has had one winning season since joining the Pac-12 in 2011.
Tucker, 48, had been a longtime assistant in the NFL and at the highest levels of college football, working under Nick Saban at Alabama and Kirby Smart at Georgia, before becoming a head coach for the first time at Colorado.
