are totally different markets<\/a>,\u201d Saban said in response to the clear double standard, via Awful Announcing. \u201cLike, that\u2019s like asking me, does a student\u2019s scholarship equal the professor\u2019s pay? I mean, how much value does a coach create for a university?\u201d<\/p>\nFirst, let\u2019s get past the \u201cscholarship\u201d bullshit. Student-athletes are no longer students. They\u2019re employees, the same as the coach, the professor, and everyone else who provides services to a university. The actual cost to the school of having another student attend (or not attend) class is no longer relevant to the analysis. For many of the capable players, they\u2019re majoring if anything in football \u2014 just don\u2019t ask for the real stats on the placement rate. And with the schools turning their Advanced Football Studies coursework into many millions of dollars, they\u2019re entitled to be paid now, especially since there\u2019s a small chance of being paid later.<\/p>\n
Second, Saban still avoids the issue. For players, capping their pay is supposedly necessary to \u201csaving\u201d the entire collegiate sports system. For coaches, it continues to be \u201cgrab what you can while you can.\u201d<\/p>\n
Saban then pivoted to the question of coaching buyouts, which also have gotten out of control. With, for some reason, no effort to get Congress to intervene.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know, rather than worry about amount of money people make,\u201d Saban said, \u201cI think the thing that has been difficult is when coaches get fired, and they have these huge buyouts. And everybody says, \u2018Well, how can the university afford to pay him that?\u2019 I think you can figure out, OK, you can\u2019t have any more than a five-year contract or whatever it is. And maybe the buyout can only be so much. But I think that\u2019s maybe a better way to approach it than try to make these two things \u2014 they\u2019re different markets, you know? Players\u2019 market\u2019s different than coaches\u2019 market.\u201d<\/p>\n
Whether Saban realizes it or not, he\u2019s admitting to the existence of a disconnect by conceding that a certain type of limit should be placed on coaching compensation. He\u2019s just suggesting something that doesn\u2019t limit the pay a coach receives. He wants to limit the amount the coach would be owed if\/when the school decides to fire one coach and hire another.<\/p>\n
From player pay to professor pay to coaching pay to coaching buyouts, there are business decisions that every university must make in a way that balances the budget. In the past, the administrators were able to do that with a line item for \u201cplayer compensation\u201d that was $0.00. Now, it\u2019s harder to balance the budget. They still should be expected to do it.<\/p>\n
The issue isn\u2019t chaos created by players being allowed to participate in capitalism. It\u2019s chaos created by mismanagement. Schools make purchases they can\u2019t afford, when it comes to the revenue-generating sports programs \u2014 especially since those programs are required for some reason to subsidize the non-revenue-generating sports.<\/p>\n
This shouldn\u2019t be a political issue. It should be a \u201chire better businesspeople\u201d issue. Businesspeople who know how best to generate maximum revenue and to carve it up responsibly. How to restrain themselves from pulling out all the stops to attract the next shiny object, player or coach, in the hopes of earning even more revenue.<\/p>\n
The entire effort to cap player pay cuts against the supposed American ideal that stands for two simple words: Get paid. Given that one side is very well organized and funded and that the other is disorganized and voiceless, the effort to turn freedom on its head has had success in the Senate. Here\u2019s hoping that the House of Representatives takes the basic concepts of U.S. financial liberty a little more seriously than 77 Senators have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the best arguments against the Protect College Sports Act comes from the obvious hypocrisy between placing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-865421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}