re: Because people are stupid, our Governor feels coaching salaries should be capped

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Cadello

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Bear Bryant, Alabama, 1958 (Bryant had just become Alabama’s athletic director as well as its football coach): $142,998. Bryant remained Alabama’s coach until 1982. He is reputed to have insisted throughout his career that his salary should always be at least one dollar less than that of the university’s president.

Interesting how salaries have gotten out of control, Bear Bryant won could argue the best of all time was compensated very well in the day. Salaries for coaches now is a arms race and we as fans are paying for the entertainment.

College athletics remain an amateur sport where all the athletes and non professional [non paid].

Mixing the huge sums of money college football brings in and amateur athletes [non paid] is walking a tight rope. The high salaries are only a reflection to the high salaries professional athletes are making.

At some point in time salaries for coaches and professional athletes started to rise out of control and we as fans are paying for the entertainment just as we have paid huge dollar amount to actors and performers for decades.

Politicians and professors are not in the entertainment business and comparing these wonderful people to college coaches who bring in millions of dollars a year is just not correct logic