WinterBorn
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The players who actually do the work and draw the fans are told "sorry kid but since it's an amateur sport we can only give you a $20,000 a year scholarship." Then they pay the coaches 8 million a year!!!
Ohio State AD sounds off on ‘ridiculous’ salaries paid to Nick Saban, Jimbo Fisher
feb 6 2018 Ohio State AD sounds off on ‘ridiculous’ salaries paid to Nick Saban, Jimbo Fisher
Suffice to say, Gene Smith is not a fan of the most recent spiraling upwards of coaching salaries in college football.
In prying Jimbo Fisher away from Florida State, Texas A&M is signed their new head coach to a 10-year, $75 million contract. In 2017, Nick Saban was paid $11.2 million, $2 million of which was deferred compensation, on a contract that will pay the future Hall of Famer an average of just over $8.1 annually.
Even for a man in charge of one of the most profitable athletic departments in the country, those numbers are unsettling. Or “ridiculous,” in the words of Smith
In 2016 the OSU athletic dept made $152 million. Does the AD think that would happen without the best talent coaching?
And part of that was $33 million in donations. Does he think that would happen if the football program was losing?
Ohio State made $57.1 million on Licensing/Rights fees. YOu have to win to get that kind of revenue coming in. If he thinks he can recruit and win with a no name coach, let him try it.