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There are reports that Jim Harbaugh has been offered $8 million a year to coach at Michigan. $8 million to coach football at a state school. Am I the only one to see something wrong with that?
it tells me that colleges have to much money to spend >
Exactly. I wonder if the OP has any idea how many millions of dollars a year the average Power 5 conference school spends or makes on football?
Michigan's biggest rival, Ohio State, has the largest athletic budget in the country. Last year, the football program produced $57 million in revenue, which accounts for about half of the athletic department's $109 million budget. Source
Harbaugh definitely IS an NFL-type head coach, but his meddling GM has a huge ego and insists on getting all of the credit for the success of the team, a clash identical to the feud in Dallas between Jerry Jones and Jimmy Johnson several years ago.
There are reports that Jim Harbaugh has been offered $8 million a year to coach at Michigan. $8 million to coach football at a state school. Am I the only one to see something wrong with that?
It's only wrong if the school has to come out of pocket and raises tuition to pay for it. But some of these big time programs that are in a "power five" conference can afford it. Between the Tv cotracts, ticket sales, rich alumni donors, these contracts usually pay for themselves.
It's only wrong if the school has to come out of pocket and raises tuition to pay for it. But some of these big time programs that are in a "power five" conference can afford it. Between the Tv cotracts, ticket sales, rich alumni donors, these contracts usually pay for themselves.
Agreed.
That and they sell collegiate gear too - plus concessions at the games. The whole, holier then thou argument of having a problem with football and the money it brings with it is really tired. Because of the strength of some football programs means they can give out band and archery and bowling scholarships for other students who then have a shot at an education which they might not have. If some rich Michigan peeps are tired of Big Blue getting embarrassed and want to hire a big name coach and have the deep pockets to go after him - I see no problem with that.
That and they sell collegiate gear too - plus concessions at the games. The whole, holier then thou argument of having a problem with football and the money it brings with it is really tired. Because of the strength of some football programs means they can give out band and archery and bowling scholarships for other students who then have a shot at an education which they might not have. If some rich Michigan peeps are tired of Big Blue getting embarrassed and want to hire a big name coach and have the deep pockets to go after him - I see no problem with that.
The main concern I'd have with "rich Michigan peeps" or rich boosters from any university, is if these same people begin lording it over the university, believing they have the "right" to dictate policy one way or another when it comes to the football or basketball programs.
Boosters choose to help out financially voluntarily, and that's fine, but that should be the end of it.
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