Insight into what F King Alexander things about college athletics.....

F King Alexander on College Athletics

Salaries for head football coaches are astronomical. Is there a dollar figure you refuse to surpass?

I can’t say that. I’d like to put a cap on all of them, before we’re paying a million a year to a punting coach. Or I’m going to be that punting coach.

The board did ask me when I got here, ‘How long would you stay here?’ I said, ‘As long as it takes, to become an assistant football coach.’

This environment is so fluid … I remember in 1999, I was at a Big Ten meeting. I was with the president of Wisconsin. The Big Ten agreed to put the breaks on all of this spending. Everybody got into a huddle and agreed to do it together collectively. It took about eight months until somebody hired a big-name coach and just blew open the treasure chest again. I think this is one of the biggest issues we face in intercollegiate athletics, and there is a degree of interest in effectively slowing down the spending. I think if we did, we’d see those other conferences put the brakes on it.


I do not think "Sir" gets it but coaches, especially those in three major coaches football, basketball and baseball are perhaps the only accountable people on campus.

They live and die by their "win-loss" records while professors do not give flying frick which student graduates or does not. In fact some of them would love to see more students fail.

Coaches have to not only act as coaches and mentors 24/7 to their student athletes. They are literally responsible for their players conducts, on and off the field. Try being responsible for 85 slightly slow witted, physically aggressive kids.

I earned 2 masters degrees in engineering from LSU and I do not think I have ever found a professor who even makes the slightest effort to mentor even the smartest grad students. They just sit on their high horses and pass judgement.

Coaches get fired all the time, even ones that have won national championships. Tenured faculty can not be legally fired for anything other than cause.

I could go on and on......

Piyush "Bobby" Jindal, wanted to frick Louisiana higher education, just out of spiteful ideology, so bad that we stayed fricked. That is why F King was hired without even a selection process.