College football 2020 offseason thread

Aunt Bee is livid.

 

They'll play without a hitch once they run out of rescheduling/reshuffling dates. Absolutely nothing will get in their way once they have started. It's one thing to delay a start and to cancel what would have been a season-opener. As soon as any major conference gets going with real league play, it will find a way to ignore pesky guidelines like campus positivity rate or community spread. Big time football is not taking orders from local health departments.

 

Coaches' salaries and downpayment on facilities construction.

 

It was a rhetorical question, obviously.
I think by now we know that coaches don't need to be paid $9 million per year and football teams don't need facilities with lazy rivers and game rooms. And anyone worrying about losing an arms race with Clemson and Alabama should probably just to back to thinking the football national championship was "mythical" and do what's best for the entire student-athlete population. Why did we ever get to the point where "football paid the bills?"

 

It is really interesting to see just how much football has grown in recent years, however. As late as 2002 or so, the ACC's football and basketball TV contracts were of equal value.
Even with the huge football increases, however, there are still relatively few athletics departments that really turn a profit. The proof: the number of schools -- even in the Power 5 -- that magically report the same exact dollar amounts in revenues and expenses. When you see that beautiful synchronicity, you know the department isn't really profitable. It's only showing a zero in the bottom line because it has received cash from across campus to cover its debts.
They have to be saved from themselves. They have to get an antitrust exemption from Congress that would permit a salary cap for coaches or an annual spending cap for a department that would compel action on salaries. About the only good thing in the Trumpandemic is that it has paused pending construction projects at a lot of places. Maybe when the world returns to normalcy, some of them will at least be scaled back..

 

How much longer does Kevin Warren have?

 

This would appear to undercut his authority. If he wants to keep the job, he'll have to apologize and pray the Buckeyes win the whole thing. If Nebraska wants out, the Big Ten should be happy to let their whiny red faces leave. Then go poach Texas.

 

Agree totally. And the coaches salaries have to be scaled back. If they don't like it they can go to the NFL. Good luck. There's only 32 of those jobs available. After Saban retires, Dabo gets wooed away by Daniel Snyder, Jimbo goes to the Houston Texans and Dan Mullen replaces Belichik, the best of the rest of college coaches going forward need to figure out how to get by on $3 million per year

 

I could see all of those moves happening.

 

Wait, wait. The west coast is about to cave to public pressure.

 

Taking Nebraska over Missouri, who was begging to be in the B1G, was a big mistake