Originally Posted by
MinnesotaFats
$15mm buyout
While schools are furloughing employees
See this is the counter argument to everyone who says "pay them" are described those who think sports and athletes pay scales are out of tune and should be scaled back as "haters".
The money in sports, and the greed, is destroying our societies view of athletes and it's trickling down into academia now.
Muschamp should have never gotten such a contract, schools shouldn't even be playing sports right now and no way should the highest paid public employee in all 50 states be a sports coach....but it is and we are, only for 1 reason, MONEY.
The next time somebody holds out for more money or a player demands a trade or a kid refuses to sign or a FA leaves his team for a super squad or a beach destination think about the trickle down affect of those owners paying those contracts and giving into those demands, as it permeates colleges and in many cases high schools now. Think of the steroids and the pressure and the regiments and scrutiny that the kids are under to make money for these schools to pay idiors likes Muschamp.
Then think about the janitors, the math teachers, the student assistants and the administrators who just got laid off because the school has no money, while Muschamp collects $15mm
That's the problem with guys like Dak, AB, Lebron, AD, Bryce Harper or Machado ,etc
Those who say "let them get paid" don't understand that society cannot function if we pay uneducated men who throw balls and we don't pay academia.