Belichick to coach UNC

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Didn’t see this coming. One of the greatest ( if not THE greatest) NFL coaches of all time signs a 5 year $50 million deal at a public university. The Tarheel football team needs some help but……🏈:eek:
 
Didn’t see this coming. One of the greatest ( if not THE greatest) NFL coaches of all time signs a 5 year $50 million deal at a public university. The Tarheel football team needs some help but……🏈:eek:
Belichick to Nick Saban "Hold my beer." I don't see him doing well because he's not going to get the time to develop players with so many players looking to jump through the portal every year.
 
I do worry, I work at a public university, and I was a coach at a big SEC university.
All kidding aside, I miss the amateur aspect of things. I witnessed as a frosh in college having our hockey team win the NCAA Div I. They were all amateurs, the fans were students and locals, and I don't even think anyone knew the school won outside of those who followed college hockey. It was not a spectacle etc. I get it, the 1930's were different :giggle:
 
Me thinks the Train wreck will be EPIC.
Precedents to examine: Arizona State v. Herm Edwards, Jacksonville Jaguars v. Urban Meyer, just to name two of the most recent.
Given that Belichick is about 40 Grit, he may not make it through next season.
 
All kidding aside, I miss the amateur aspect of things. I witnessed as a frosh in college having our hockey team win the NCAA Div I. They were all amateurs, the fans were students and locals, and I don't even think anyone knew the school won outside of those who followed college hockey. It was not a spectacle etc. I get it, the 1930's were different :giggle:
I am absolutely not kidding.
The amount of money it is spent on these vultures is insane. Everyone wants to be Alabama, but that is one-off. The cost to students in Alabama went through the roof, not because they did not have money to pay Nick, but because they reached a point where out-of-state students outnumbered instate, and costs went up to limit their numbers. Private university? Fine! Public? That is not the mission of a public university.
UNC students will, in the end, pay higher tuition, and he won't do anything for them. He is 72, he is spent.
However, I bet UNC will have a protracted fight with faculty and staff if they ask for, let's say, better healthcare or family leave.
 
Okay but the state wasn't paying your salary. It was boosters, ticket sales, advertising, etc.
Oh the state does pay your salary! Base salary is one thing. Problem is, it comes with numerous other stipulations, coaches, staff, and drives tuition through the roof for students that come there to learn and become productive members of society, you know, core mission of university, especially public one.
Private? Give him $500 million, I don't care.
The trickle-down effect of this is insane.
 
I am absolutely not kidding.
The amount of money it is spent on these vultures is insane. Everyone wants to be Alabama, but that is one-off. The cost to students in Alabama went through the roof, not because they did not have money to pay Nick, but because they reached a point where out-of-state students outnumbered instate, and costs went up to limit their numbers. Private university? Fine! Public? That is not the mission of a public university.
UNC students will, in the end, pay higher tuition, and he won't do anything for them. He is 72, he is spent.
However, I bet UNC will have a protracted fight with faculty and staff if they ask for, let's say, better healthcare or family leave.
Now imagine the flip side, the most prestigious university where I live, doesn't have a division 1 ice hockey team whereas almost all the other ones in it's league does, and, I was told they can't afford the Zamboni they want as it's $200k. My comment was there are a lot of pretty well off alumni, one would think they would simply make a donation. Who knows....it makes me wonder what the motivation is behind all of it. Not academics of course, but once people say NIL I'm lost.

What has caught my attention is U of FL, who seems to be top notch academics today
 
I am absolutely not kidding.
The amount of money it is spent on these vultures is insane. Everyone wants to be Alabama, but that is one-off. The cost to students in Alabama went through the roof, not because they did not have money to pay Nick, but because they reached a point where out-of-state students outnumbered instate, and costs went up to limit their numbers. Private university? Fine! Public? That is not the mission of a public university.
UNC students will, in the end, pay higher tuition, and he won't do anything for them. He is 72, he is spent.
However, I bet UNC will have a protracted fight with faculty and staff if they ask for, let's say, better healthcare or family leave.
Welcome to simple supply/demand economics. I promise you the University of Alabama did not raise out of state tuition to limit the number of OOS students, but to capitalize on it. Success in football can be a huge driver for an entire university, more students want to go there, more corporations want to be associated with a winner, more "boosters" too. And yes it even trickles down to academics and research. Clemson is a more recent example, that campus is busting at the seams with growth in all areas 100% from football. $10M/year is a bargain for a football coach if on field success drives $50/$75/$100M a year in increased giving.
 
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