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[QUOTE="KnightBridgeAZ, post: 4318367, member: 591"]
My whipping point has long been college coaching salaries, which are exorbitant - at least in the abstract - in football, men's basketball, major women's basketball and a few isolated "star" coaches in other sports.

I constantly get criticism for this, as though I am saying they don't somehow deserve it or shouldn't get paid.  Not at all.  I am objecting to the fact they have risen to this point, not that we should then go backwards.  It is what it is, at this point.

What I am also saying is that as coaching salaries escalated, as well as the facilities wars, it has become clear that schools are making - or at least spending - a lot of money on their sports.   None of it particularly shared with the athletes.  Like [USER=6485]@MSSportsGuy[/USER] I long thought the education was enough for the athletes, but it has become clear that a lot of them - while thankfully getting education, I suppose - are not there for that reason, really and the schools only care about on-field / court performances.

Disaster that the NIL is working at being - it is the way in the new, really pro-style college sports.
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