“Two things only the people anxiously desire — bread and circuses.”
As Rome declined the government kept the populace happy by distributing free food and staging huge spectacles. Sadly, I’m afraid in America today we have updated that strategy and substituted beer and football.
From Axios Sports this morning…
Five universities that have fired their coaches this season and owe them a total of $56.7 million in buyout money.
- Nebraska ($15 million buyout)
- Colorado ($11.4 million buyout)
- Georgia Tech ($11.3 million buyout)
- Wisconsin ($11 million buyout)
- Arizona State ($8 million buyout)
Over the past decade, public universities have spent $530 million to fire college football coaches, per the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics.
Amazing amounts of money to pay coaches to go away, but schools have the cash from lucrative TV deals and rich boosters willing to write checks to be able to afford it and even act without hesitation or contrition.
Nebraska could have saved itself $8 million on their coach’s buyout if they waited 20 days to fire him. They decided it wasn’t worth it.
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What can I say? I’ve never laughed myself to bed but it may just be the time to start doing so.
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