Wednesday, October 15, 2014

FBS football coach salaries

The average FBS football coach makes $1.75 million dollars before bonuses. While the coaches are very good at their jobs, they do not deserve that much money. Not when they are making it off of their players who aren't compensated at all. The classic rebuttle to this line of thought is "THEY'RE GETTING AN EDUCATION. YOU CAN'T PUT A PRICE ON THAT". However anyone who propagates this notion is oblivious to what really goes on. For major college sports like football and basketball, the term "student athlete" can be a misnomer. Three years ago UNC admitted that they had been giving their basketball players grades for classes they were not attending. That means that NCAA runs a multimillion dollar industry and the students are only compensated with a room and 3 meals a day. There is no easy fix to this problem but if the schools are not going to give the students any money, the students should be allowed to make money off of themselves. Johnny Manziel should not get in trouble for selling autographs. 

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