re: Found on the OT: Highest paid public employees by state

quote:

---

You really do have to spend money on coaching, facilities, etc. to maintain a big time football program, and it's profitability.

---

No doubt. And I like cheering for my team as much as anyone. However it is a curious system we have where institutions of higher learning, mostly funded by taxes, are in effect managing a minor league football farm system for the NFL.