Oh I agree, and am FURIOUS about it. I fear for our sport of lacrosse.Chousnake wrote: ↑Sat Oct 19, 2024 5:59 pmThe money paid to football and basketball coaches at major colleges is obscene. And the money major colleges get from football is absurd. The search for football dollars has ruined college sports. And for the major colleges to try to get the other schools to help them pay for the problem they created is robbery. But I fear for how the current environment and system is going to ruin other sports completely at every college level.a fan wrote: ↑Sat Oct 19, 2024 5:24 pmI'm not familiar with him at all. Never heard of him until the presser.wgdsr wrote: ↑Sat Oct 19, 2024 4:09 pmok. firstly, let's air it out that i am a homer here. here is where i'll go however that i won't again in my lifetime, for anybody: he's the embodiment of what we want coaches to be, more than anyone in the last 30 years. uva didn't deserve him, because he was a unicorn and nobody does.a fan wrote: ↑Sat Oct 19, 2024 3:01 pmThe fact that he told folks about how he's not suited to where the College Sports is in his presser, without saying one single word as to WHY College Sports is where it is....is what makes me think that he didn't expect bad things to come of pulling in 10x what a UVa professor earned.
He's riding off into the sunset at age 55 after pulling in tens of millions, and it's not at all unlikely that College Sports will fall apart because of the absurd wages being paid out to coaches and AD middlemen. Maybe I'm being pessimistic.
I guess I'm expecting too much. These coaches are supposed to produce leaders....you'd think that SOMEONE in the coaching/AD ranks would cop to their part in ruining College Athletics. I have yet to see the "this is MY fault" admission from any of them.
Have you?
it's possible you're not that familiar with him before your opening foray, but maybe you are. what i can tell you: he didn't and doesn't talk in code. when he has concern for athletes at top of mind, it's because it matters to him what happens to the bulk of the 1,700 basketball players that were in the portal in the last year. it matters to him about the guys that get lost in the wash as much as any guy that can help him win.
he doesn't say one thing and mean another. unfortunately, that's rare. and me, i've never heard a coach retire and say 6 to 10 times it's because i'm not good enough to do this.
however, if you'd rather have your take be he hasn't and didn't repent for his sins, because that's the one thing you need to hear, have at it.
I wouldn't have said word one if he simply retired, and sailed off.....
But that's not what he did. He threw stones at the mess he helped make, without acknowledging his role is weak sauce, imho. That's why I reacted the way I did.
Like many here, i am LIVID at what they've done to College Sports. I'm sure he's a good man, but if you ask him? I'd be SHOCKED if he didn't tell you he was part of the problem.
The could have capped Coaches and Admin. just like they capped the players ability to earn...and made it much easier to argue that College Sports is about a higher goal than just money.
Instead, they let Middlemen and Coaches enjoy the free market....while the kids didn't. And the race for more and more money was on.
What's crazy to me is that MOST of these schools are taxpayer-funded State Universities. Why didn't they take all these absurd salaries and use it to keep the cost of tuition down for the taxpayers? Greed, is why.