San Jose Mercury News:
… [At the University of Texas], the faculty is furious that football coach Mack Brown recently got a raise from $3 million to $5 million.
Ted Leland, a Stanford athletic director for 14 years, said coaching contracts are symptomatic of college sports’ move away from the high-minded values of amateurism. He described athletic conferences as entertainment cartels whose primary job has become negotiating lucrative TV contracts.
Leland, now an administrator at the University of the Pacific, said college presidents understand the liabilities of exorbitant coaching salaries, “but few believe the NCAA has any answers. Personally and professionally they feel impotent to change the trend.”
Bowlsby doesn’t see the paradigm shifting any time soon.
“It is hard to ‘unring the bell,”‘ he said. “What we have is what we are likely to have to live with.”…
December 28th, 2009 at 8:30AM
Poor, poor college presidents. So rather than devising some solutions, they will continue the impudence of impotence defense.