Outlaw Agents

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billbattle

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Players are not allowed by the NCAA to have agents. Why coaches then? Much of the nasty crap that happens in the coaching ranks goes on because of agents. The constant game-playing, coaches switching schools, coach shopping, etc. After all, most coaches are paid much more than their university's president and assistant coaches make more money than probably all of the professors at the school. Contracts have become worthless pieces of paper. Schools are having to raise tuition, cut salaries of academic staff, etc., while coaching salaries go out the roof. Yeah, I know the money for athletics is separate, but college football wouldn't be viable if not for the association with the universities.
 
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Players are not allowed by the NCAA to have agents. Why coaches then? Much of the nasty crap that happens in the coaching ranks goes on because of agents. The constant game-playing, coaches switching schools, coach shopping, etc. After all, most coaches are paid much more than their university's president and assistant coaches make more money than probably all of the professors at the school. Contracts have become worthless pieces of paper. Schools are having to raise tuition, cut salaries of academic staff, etc., while coaching salaries go out the roof. Yeah, I know the money for athletics is separate, but college football wouldn't be viable if not for the association with the universities.
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Sounds good in theory but the agents are only doing what the coaches want them to do. It is the coach who signs off on everything.
 
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As far as the comment on assistant pay the highest paid professor in my engineering dept. who had 40 years of experience was at $100k. So yes it's safe to say that all assistants are getting paid mightily over professors.
 
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Interesting thread.

IMO it's all a matter of leverage (All you Johnny Depp fans use the long e)

The coaches are working for the Universities/Athletic Departments. In the past I would assume that the Schools had the advantage. Now with the advent of agents (who started by representing NFL players, I would assume) the coaches have a way of turning things more in their favor.

The real argument is whether things are out of balance. If the agents are smarter than the AD's that they are negotiating with, (Insert Mike Hamilton comment here) then the coaches will start getting the better parts of the deals.

IMO such gaps are short lived, and thus we would start seeing schools doing things to gain leverage in the negotiating process. (Hiring business people for AD's, using search firms, etc.)

In the end, though, it's about winning and not about money. What I mean is, AL & FL will pay whatever it takes in 2010 to their coaches and not bat an eye. If we string together two losing seasons we'll be calling for Dooley's head even if he was making $1.5MM.
 
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There's no way I'd enter into a multi-million dollar contract without legal representation.
 
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