Joel Klatt explains why college football coaches are worth the expensive price tags | CFB ON FOX

Are college football coaches worth the high price tags? Joel Klatt makes the argument that while the salaries might seem outlandish, a select few are certainly worth the money.

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[CFBonFOX]

Who are the best coaches in college football today?

[odehkaradsheh]

Much respect to Joel klatt. Very informative.

[jjgrey]

Joel's arguments very good...most I agree with...I advocate no rules and schools should be able (but not required) to pay players as the marketplace demands (they are doing that now...it' just under the table) and certainly players should be able to profit from their likeness...

[whaddup]

The state of Alabama’s entire culture and economy revolves around the tides successful football program. If Saban asks for a raise... you give it to him.

[okrajoe]

Clemson players - 85 full-ride scholarship x Clemson Estimated Cost of Attendance, Out of State with Laptop $57, 239 = $4.87M ---> so the head coach makes almost twice *ALL* the players.

[colbeyisthomas]

TCU's endowment better be doubled from what it was twenty years ago, the entire U.S. economy has doubled its GDP in that time, too. Plus, endowments usually invest those donations, I'd think some of those gains were passive investment gains. My point: A wet blanket could have doubled the endowment fund. Stick to football, Joel.

[MkShantrul]

Oh and Joel Klatt, Urban Meyer, Brady Quinn, Reggie Bush, and the rest of the Fox analysts you're the best college football crews out by far now you all out shine the Game day crew now all they have is Herbie. big noon kickoff is ten times better.

[completecontroll]

Dabo and Saban can write their own contracts. Two towns who thrive almost solely upon the football programs of the local University, without professional teams in the area. These places thrive when the University football is successful.
Facts. We can say it’s just sports, it’s just this, but it impacts everyone in the area financially. It affects everyone in the area with a sense of pride in something.
There are people who could ask for what we see as a greedy raise, but would actually only be getting a small percentage of what they actually create.
Interesting point, but I only think it works in certain areas. Certain schools.

[MkShantrul]

Thanks for the explanation, while I never really thought they weren't worth the money now I understand why they are. But just as the coaches are worth that much the you gen are worth done percentage of that there is more of them but they should be allowed to capitalize off their image and likeness even if it does change college football for the worse, not that I know that it will, but to me it is the greatest sport or greatest of version of my favorite sport and for selfish reasons I guess I don't want that ruined I hope they can figure it out where everyone can be happy.

[kj]

And Nick Saban is the highest paid coach!

[matthintz]

Obviously there's a market, so people don't complain much about salaries, but I still find it hard to make the argument that a coach at a public university or college (not private, mind you), a public employee, commands that kind of money for what they do. Remember that there were great coaches and teams at a time when coaches were on yearly contracts, and, in some cases, were players themselves. I'm not saying we should go back to that, but this is a little ridiculous. Would paying Dabo, for example, 4 million instead of 6 really be a sacrifice, slap in the face, or a mark against his honor?

I wouldn't care if only a small base of this money came from the state, and the rest was entirely made up of private money, but (as a graduate student, teacher, and lecturer), when dealing with cuts to our benefits, or cuts in just basic courses needed for GEN ED (general education), it's hard to justify all of this in my mind. People will argue that when these people are paid well the programs do better, and when the programs do better the school makes money, or improves in some other way. The data doesn't really back that up, at least the part about schools making money. I think only a handful of these programs really pull that off. Joel's discussion of TCU is interesting, but it doesn't prove a causal relationship anymore than rock music does with bad behavior.

I grew up in Ohio. My dad is a Buckeye. A lot of my friends are Buckeyes. Another friend is a Nittany-Lion, another is a Wolverine, and I'm a Clemson Tiger. Of course we like it when our schools do well and we can get hyped for stuff like this, but even my dad questions at what point do these salaries - not just for head coaches, but coordinators, assistant coaches, staff, construction, outstrips the benefits they offer?

Like I said, I wouldn't care if the money came from a source other than the state or endowment. Maybe a base salary of, say, six figures, and the rest coming from some private source - corporate donors, sponsors, etc. Since the late 1970s we've seen less and less state funding for public universities. We've seen benefits cut. We've seen professors and staff reduced to part-time adjuncts. Ohio State has done this. Louisiana, during a steep budget shortfall a few years ago, even discussed the (remote) possibility of cutting the LSU football. Now we all know that wasn't going to happen, but in order to keep the campus and these programs going the decisions made in Baton Rouge potentially threatened schools like Grambling and Louisiana Southern at the expense of LSU.

I don't blame any of these things on the football programs, or the coaches or anything (not all of them, at least. Construction costs for stadiums are a bit of a sore spot), but at what point is there a limit? If we expect the people who actually make a university a university to take a cut, will someone like Saban take a cut? Would he be asked? Would he be willing? The State of Alabama ain't exactly an economic powerhouse. Where's the line in the sand between acceptable/reasonable and insanely out of line? I just want to add that if this was all, or mostly private money I'd be... irritated, but I would have little to say. But when it comes to public monies or the school's endowment where is that line? There's gotta be a line.

[kgill]

Cop out, ?deliberately.

$900m would have risen to 1.6Bn with any kind of successful investment. What was the colllege doing to generate the bucks, why is that all on the football program? And image rights is nonsense-it will mean nothing to 99.% of college athletes. This guy works for the man so he says what the man tells him to say,

[williammcalpine]

While likeness seems like a quick fix I feel like lineman would be marginalized even though they’re the backbone of college teams. Also let’s be honest if this was seen as investment to career or education we’ve got a lot restructuring to do so students aren’t overworked and can participate in campus opportunities outside of sports