Miami HC Jim Larranaga Stepping Down
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It's gotta be super difficult to be an HC nowadays. Like you said, you miss in the portal or have good players just leave for greener pastures and your season is toast.
At 75 there is no reason for him to deal with this NCAA chit show.
Coaches sign contracts. So when a kid or kids transfer out and you miss on getting some in,….coach still gets paid. Fire him and he get paid. (Ask UofL)
So it’s a lose lose prop for schools. Lose money on the player and lose money on the coach.
One day these pointy headed “academics” who are running these schools will figure out that they need to just say NO, and get a grip on the portal and NIL.
To somebody.
Coaches sign contracts. So when a kid or kids transfer out and you miss on getting some in,….coach still gets paid. Fire him and he get paid. (Ask UofL)
So it’s a lose lose prop for schools. Lose money on the player and lose money on the coach.
One day these pointy headed “academics” who are running these schools will figure out that they need to just say NO, and get a grip on the portal and NIL.
To somebody.
Coaching is definitely a young man's game these days. I doubt any coaches are going to last over 10 years under the current structure with NIL and the Portal.
For a young person it’s like legal stealing.
Sign for 2-3 million, invest wisely, and be set for life, win or lose.
No downside IMO
i agree. have never been sad when a coach is fired because they still get paid their contract or buyout. jimbo fisher living off $76,000,000 not a bad way to get fired
After making a Final 4 and having successfully at George Mason he chose to come to
Miami to do the same thing he’s mad at his players for doing after their Final 4 run. The hypocrisy is crazy 😂
Miami to do the same thing he’s mad at his players for doing after their Final 4 run. The hypocrisy is crazy 😂
I don't get why Universities don't just say "we're amateur athletics, we're not paying you to play, if you don't want to come here and play for a free education then go do something else"
Because Universities were/are raking in millions to billions using a business model they created with other corporations like NIKE, Addidas, TV, Apple, McDonald's, etc and there's no way Universities are walking away from all that $.
It hasn't been amateur athletics for nearly 100 years not sure why fans think a business model churning out millions to billions is in any way amateur. They called it amateur in a con so they wouldn't have to share the $. Great deal, mgt takes 100% of the profits.
SCOTUS ruled Universities were constraining capitalism. The players are going to keep winning these lawsuits.
I'm no expert, but my understanding is Universities are non profit, so they aren't just bankrolling all the $$$$ Just about all P4 Universities have an athletic operating budget in excess of 100 million dollars, a lot of Universities operate in the red and require state funding or have to take out loans to stay afloat. Hell, according to the local finance expert (Zipp) UofL has had to take out loans recently..
This current model is not sustainable. Universities do not exist for their athletic department. They are learning institutions period.. More college students have benefitted from an education as a result of playing sports than have benefitted from playing sports and going pro, and that's not even close.. There used to be a commercial during the NCAA tournament that said less than 2 percent of all athletes go pro in sports, that means 98% should benefit from an education and I'd be willing to bet a large sum of money that at least 50% of the kids that benefit from an education would never had gotten a college education if not for sports..
I just get tired of people sht'n on a college education in exchange for playing sports. If people think being a university is a great way to make money on athletics, go out and start one.
As much as I hate to even think about getting Govt involved, it is high time these universities, especially public ones, lose their “non profit” status.
That would raise some eyebrows.
But then again, even the Govt can’t screw up NCAA athletics any worse.
That would raise some eyebrows.
But then again, even the Govt can’t screw up NCAA athletics any worse.
Because they (or more importantly their donors) want to win. I’m with you- I think the scandal in college athletics was the academic one, with kids taking minimum classes in cake majors just stay eligible, then leaving school with nothing. Colleges used these kids, then discarded them. Coaches used the kids and got rich. It’s just that they get paid, but there should be academic strings tied to the dollars, there should be a salary cap, and there should be contracts that prevent students from moving more freely than coaches.
Except he’s making career decisions and players are suppose to be getting an education. I think one day they will start holding student athletes to the fire with grades and entry requirements and all this crap will end. Or fans will have enough and the house of cards collapses and the student athletes (Use that term loosely) have no where to go. The current system isn’t sustainable. Do I blame athletes? No, but it will collapse
