Like has been said many times, there's plenty of blame to go around, BUT it's my understanding that the NIL concept originated with a player's lawsuit. In reality, it's probably a lawyer or agent type that got the idea and then used some players to advance it.
What makes this even more difficult to project is the next portal window (April 16–25, 2025), when Power conference schools go all out to poach the G6 talent they need to fill their backup spots.
I wonder how many of those programs losing money are paying 10 million per year or more in athletic department staff (including coaches) salary?
Everyone paid by FBS football is overpaid if they are losing money. That did just start with NIL.
Bear Bryant maxed out with a salary that was around $1.5 million in 2018 buying power ($450k in 1982). And now little old (football wise) North Texas is paying Eric Morris $1.3 million. And that is down from the $1.9 UNT paid Seth in 2020.
https://www.bannersociety.com/2019/8/15/20732192/coach-salaries-history-highest
The greed and mismanagement is absurd.
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