Back again, I know, not much news though not surprised with the All-Big East awards. Lansanah and Thomas were deserving.
I don't get how having so few guys on the all-big east team, but, going 9-3 and wining the conference doesn't win coach of the year. Looks like Randy Edsall didn't exactly endear himself to his peers after the Louisville game.
I added the NFL Network today. I just have to have it, and I convinced my wife that I bargained down to $4.99 a month because it's a good deal. Little does she know that is the promo rate, not bargaining allowed. But, means to an ends. You know what that means? NBATV. I am pumped. If I haven't been watching enough Celtics already, now I can watch games almost every day. Too much NBA for me, that's sad.
So, what am I doing right now for my sports fix? CSTV has a Hesiman Nation broadcast. I am watching Navy right now. Don't know what year, but Duke beat them for their only loss. Wallace Stadium looked the same.
Right now it's a Army-Navy highlight package on. Georga Blanda is the star. I am addicted, and I have had this for less than 15 minutes.
Jim Grobe is staying at Wake Forest. College coaches know no shame. Doesn't anyone honor their contracts anymore?
That is rhetorical, but if Grobe, or Edsall for that matter, go 5-7 next year, can the ADs renegotiate again and cut his pay?
Contracts are meaningless in college athletics.
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If, say, Sports Illustrated came along with big $$$...what would do? You wouldn't at least interview?
Yes. I would jump in a heartbeat. But, I don't have a multi-year contract I am working under. I am an at will wage and salary employee.
I don't have a formal contract with negotiations and buyouts. I also can leave my place at anytime. I don't get a thing if fired, and I don't have to buyout my contract.
Now, if I signed a contract, then things are different. We get mad when pro athletes sit out or demand trades, and we should. If you sign a contract for x numbers of years at x price, you should honor it.
The college coaching carousel is ridiculous. The coaches have way too much power over the ADs (way too much). Good for them.
But, why should a school have a $2 million buyout if they want to fire a guy, but if he leaves, he has to pay a $500,000 payment?
The compensation packages are skewered. I think college football coaches are paid way too much and have too much power within a university.
They want the job security that a multiyear contract gives them. then they want to be able to get top dollar.
They are playing both sides of the lines. Eventually, that will change as ADs become more adept at negotiating favorable terms for their institution.
A smart AD is going to one day demand his coach have the same commitment to the school that he requests the school to have to him.
It's just a general observation.
The only league I'm not really annoyed at when a pro athlete sits out is the NFL. Those contracts mean less than college coaching contracts. Not to mention for most players your window in the NFL is very small so you have to maximize every dollar. Plus if you get hurt, the team can cut you in an instant.
John, Mayweather or Hatten?
John, compensation packages for college coaches are market price and what the university's are willing to pay. Same argument on why professional atheletes are "overpaid" b/c it is the market price based on a business in which consumers pay high $$ for tickets at a game. How can anyone be overpaid if that is what an employer is willing to spend?
Mayweather-Hatton? Not even close. Pretty Boy Floyd in a rout.
My father is fired up and is going to buy the fight, so I will watch on his dime.
But, for someone who watches too much boxing and has covered it, this isn't going to be close. I don't think Ricky Hatton is skilled enough to get Floyd in trouble. I just don't see how Hatton can win unless he catches Mayweathear with a punch (always a chance in boxing) or Mayweather is out of shape and underestimates Hatton (no way).
Floyd is too skilled to fall into Hatton's roughing tactics. He is going to hit and get out of the way and dancer circles around him. It isn't going to be close. If I was a betting man, I would go heavy on the money line for Mayweather. There is a lot of European money that is coming in that is going to even the odds. The pro gamblers are going to make a killing off a Mayweather win. Easy money.
There are 119 D-I and the NFL. That is 150 jobs. There are an overflow of talent that can coach these jobs, but the salaries remain high. There is something else at work here more so more than basic market principles.
There is a fear premium being paid.
The talent pool is huge, yet there are underlying factors that are driving up these salaries.
It's the replacement cost that drives up salaries, not the actual competition for the position. There are very few of these jobs available, but the cost is soaring because AD's are motivated out of fear to not lose their coach.
Sometimes that fear is irrational.
It's this fear that is driving coaches salaries to ridiculous levels, and not a reflection of their talent or abilities but the lack of a will to find suitable replacement (which there is).
What happens is one AD overpays, then it's a domino effect. Everyone overpays out of fear.
Did Randy Edsall get offered the Ga Tech job? I don't know, but if he didn't, where else would he go? Syracuse? Maybe.
But, there aren't many options for him. If that is the case, why renegotiate?
There are only a handful of places he could go anyway realistically. What are the chances of those jobs being open?
For Randy, he probably leaves for the NFL, or a big job such as Penn St etc. He isn't going to leave for Temple even if they paid him $2 million a year.
The free market principle that is ruling here is fear. How noble.
On the morality of high a paid coach, a $140 million in facilities, media companies spending thousands and thousands of dollars on travel...that ship sailed a long time ago.
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