That will create their own monstrous problems when they fire a Coach and owe him 80M of a 160M deal.alxtw wrote:I worry that in 5-10 years time, the B1G and SEC will be able to offer coaches, position coaches, and analysts and GAs 2-3x that of what the PAC teams can match.
The best at each coaching position would be attracted to those numbers and only use the PAC as a stepping stone to get promoted back into those conferences. (Already kind of feels like that)
Or a team wants to poach a staffer and it will cost them 10M.
Raising the Coaching Salary floor and Support Staff floor is not something AD's are going to go rush to do. It will happen, but it will create its own problems. These aren't people known for equitable distributions of wealth and the sheer money being discussed is likely to create a Collective Bargaining system for the Athletes which would in fact keep the NCAA as an entity relevant.
March Madness has been a hit this year - soon the Federal Courts will demand that schools either pay the students as employees or they will have to put all that TV money into a collective pool to be shared in a manner similar to the Pro Sports Leagues and their revenue sharing. In essence the B1G and SEC are no different than the AFC North or the NFC South when the courts look at it as a whole.
It's going to be a wild time but I don't think we're in some desperate situation, especially as it relates to money.