College Sports Coaches Making Millions- What Do You Think?

[JWS]

Originally Posted by Ghost_Tracker

Here's some things I learned when I was studying education in school - these are facts - not necessarily comfortable ones - or the way we might wish things to be - but facts:

Studies have shown that many, many students don't thoroughly check out a college when applying to it - they simply assume that it's a good school if it has a famous football team. It's sad - but it's true. They're fans of the team so the school MUST be good, right???
That means that if a university has a famous football team, they get more applicants. And therefore more money. And therefore can do higher-quality research, hire better teachers, fix the library, etc. Obviously if the school has a *winning* football team, these things are even more true. And you kinda-sorta need a good coach in order to win. And winning coaches don't come cheap.

i.m.o., it's one of those cold, hard facts of life. I don't like it any more than many others might; but paying a good coach a lot of money is (at this point in time) an investment that many universities feel forced to make. 'Ya gotta be in it to win it.

That's true for most of the schools in the BCS conferences. Nobody chooses Harvard, Yale, Stanford, or Vanderbilt because of the football team.