Want to know what the problem is with college athletics? This picture says it all: my undergraduate university pays its head basketball coach $1.95 million a year while glorifying him as if he was our savior.
As the state morns his passing, I wonder what former UNC system president Bill Friday, himself an NC State graduate and Technician sports editor, would have to say about this picture?
I think I know. As he told WRAL in March, “This tells you something about exaggeration and the influence of money and other things in college sports. It’s when the large sums of money came on the scene that distortion started, and money began to dominate… a manifestation of how far we have strayed.”