Kirby Smart New Contract

Definitely some of this as well.

 

Now would probably be a perfect time to pilfer UGa assistant coaches. Teams should really throw money at the UGa assistants and see just how much salary they want to pay to keep status quo in Athens. Im betting someone could pry out Muschamp right now to be a DC or a head coach if they sweetened the pot more than Georgia.

 

Chump stepped down to an analyst position. He’s not making much of anything and doesn’t want to.

 

I don't think you understand how this works these days. It's not about adding more seats to sell more tickets anymore. Attendance at all college football stadiums have declined over the past few decades, largely due to most of the games being on TV and HDTV making the TV watching experience better. I don't think that trend will change.

So the new business model is to make the game experience better by having bigger seats with seatbacks, armrests and more leg room. They can charge a lot more for those tickets and make a whole lot more money than they could be adding another 10,000 bench seats. And there's even more money to be made by limiting capacity where demand is higher than supply and they can charge more in alumni contributions just for the right to buy the tickets.

They're not deleting seats because they need to. They're doing it to make more money. It's totally a business move. Almost every major college program is either in the process of doing this or have already done it.

 

Yes, but not at the same and equal level, IMO. Do people talk about coach buyouts as if this is the end of the game as we know it? Do they talk badly about the coach's character because he wanted to get paid? Do they say they lost interest in the game because of the coach buyouts? I don't think they do, but perhaps I missed it.

 

I don't really agree with this, but then again I don't really disagree with it.

 

I have seen people here flat out admit that they are mad that young players are getting all of this money that they can't hope to earn.

 

I'm just guessing that it's been a gradual change with coaches whereas this is a sudden wholesale change that is affecting every school with NIL AND the portal. Coaching salaries have been on the rise starting in the 90s with a handful of elite coaches cracking the 2 million, 3 million 4 million etc barrier. Not exactly apples to apples. Again, just a guess.

 

We sell out too much to even consider that move at this point in time. Maybe that's why they're pushing back the date of the "upgrades" to The Swamp.

 

I don't agree. Coaches have been getting big money contracts for a long time and nobody cared that much. It's gotten worse with the big buyouts lately, but everyone knew and accepted that coaches got paid huge multi-million dollar salaries. If athlete's NIL packages were $10 each, nobody would care. It's the amount, not the practice, IMO.

 

I understand just fine... old fat people want NFL seating in college stadiums... enough said.

 

Well I guess we gotta agree to disagree. Also, in my experience I've never heard anyone outright complain that kids are making money outside of the fact that they haven't earned it yet. Ymmv

 

I was listening to that show on Sirius XM with Rick Neuheisel and he said when he was coach in the early 80's he was making 35K a year and got offered another job making 80 or 90K. The UCLA AD said wait and let me see if I can get you more money. The guy came back with 36,500.
So they haven't been making large sums of money historically but coincidentally their salaries did start going up once the court ruled that the schools could negotiate their own TV deals in the early mid 80's. Funny how that works.

 

You could say this about any new job that someone starts, at any place. Arguably, they earned it from the body of work they put together in high school.

 

Ok...

 

Did you just say the 80's? I'm not trying to be a jerk but you do realize that was 40 years ago, right?

 

Ouch Murph. That hurts. At least I wasn't in college yet.

 

If your username means you were at UF in 1996, we were fellow students and close to the same age!

 

Good points...sitting on their hands caused lots of problems including a large part of the imbalance in the competition. The money just got too big and the schools (NCAA) got too greedy in trying to keep it all to themselves.

 

He wasn't a head coach until 1995. I would have enjoyed making $36,500 in the early eighties, but its still chump change compared to what coaches are paid today.