This perfectly illustrates the insanity of today's College Coaching Contracts.

It really has lost a ton of shine.

The only positive is that maybe, just maybe, the era of these ridiculous guaranteed contracts and buyouts is coming to an end. They can't possibly be financially sustainable for the employers.

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What percentage of the budget was that 75k ? What was the profit on OSU football in the 70s and what is it today ?

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This is how you justify coaches getting contracts that pay them 10's of Millions when they get fired for sucking ?
For God's sake, F'ing Billy Napier is getting $21 Million to not coach after compiling a losing record.

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This is how you justify coaches getting contracts that pay them 10's of Millions when they get fired for sucking ?

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Uh...yeah. Why wouldn't you?

College football was a much smaller product when the picture in OP was taken.

It really blew up in the mid-00s and salaries tracked the popularity increase.

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COLLEGE football shoudl be about amateur student athletes competing against other amateur student athletes that are representing their university

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While everyone else gets rich of course

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by Long and Tall

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Great thread TX Tiger and 70 other associated usernames

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I hate to be one of those "back in my day!" kinda guys, but it's impossible not to feel that way. I'll never give up on it since it's been such a critical and deeply embedded part of me my entire life since birth, but yeah it's just a shell of what it was.

COLLEGE football shoudl be about amateur student athletes competing against other amateur student athletes that are representing their university, more often than not by guys that grew up in that state. Now it's simply professional football. If I wanted to watch the pros I'd be an NFL guy

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YOU, the consumer, made it what it is today by your love for the product.

YOU, were willing to pay ever increasing ticket prices to attend the games.

YOU, loved to watch the games on TV.

The current status of college football is simply the "product" meeting the market demand. YOU, the consumer, don't really care much about men's college soccer..,.which is why it's more akin to what you think football "should" be about.

The only reason Woody Hayes wasn't making huge money was because college football, as whole, wasn't a hugely profitable entertainment business then. If it were, Hayes would have been a very wealthy man.

This is all driven by TV money. In 1990, the top programs in the country were bringing in around $1 million a year from TV contracts. Now, depending on the conference, that number is as much as $100 million a year.

Bingo. I detached emotionally from pro football long ago. LSU has been a passion project for me since the late 80s (earliest recollection of throwing an LSU football in the yard at T-giving with an uncle). Like most here, college football was very personal. The changes in the game the past 30 years, basically since recruiting services started really putting the shine on individual achievements on a national level, has made it way too commercial for me to care personally. When LSU lost to Vandy Saturday I simply turned off the tv and went to weed eat. By that evening I had all but forgotten we played.