Idiots of the Week: Universities Paying a Coaches Millions a Year

This week's Idiots are Universities who pay coaches ridiculous salaries and the coaches who accept them with no consideration of the affordability of schools to students. So many people are trying to afford college and there's a big reason why they can't - Sports Coach Salaries. Recently, Bill Belichick was hired by the University North Carolina at a salary of $50 MILLION a year! Isn't $500,000 enough? WTH? Besides, he's 72. Why does he need that ridiculous amount of money at his age? I don't care how "great" he is (yeah, I know he coached Superbowl winners 6 times). $50 million is ridiculous. - If he cared about the University, OR had one tiny ounce of consideration for the affordability of colleges, he would say "That's ridiculous." But he, like many other College coaches, don't care about students. It's GREED. Isn't there any way to convince Universities to stop paying these ridiculous salaries and make school affordable again?

Here are excerpts from the Boston Globe story  

Bill Belichick joining UNC wasn’t a surprising choice. It was his only choice. 

“College kind of came to me. I didn’t necessarily seek it out.” 

By Conor Ryan, Boston . Com Dec. 13, 2024

After spending nearly half a century patrolling NFL sidelines, the 72-year-old Belichick is moving on from the league he once reigned over in search of an exciting new challenge.

“I always wanted to coach in college football,” Belichick told reporters. “It just never really worked out. I had some good years in the NFL, so that was OK. This is really kind of a dream come true.”

(Image; Outrageous college coach salaries 10 YEARS AGO in 2014! Credit: Business Insider)
Sitting just 15 wins away from the NFL’s all-time coaching wins record, immersing himself in an evolving collegiate environment with NIL and the transfer portal was probably far from the priority for Belichick entering 2025.

For a football mind fixated on the results, surpassing Don Shula’s 347 career victories stood as one of the few peaks that Belichick has yet to summit.

But with no NFL team opting to toss him a rope, Belichick relented — traversing the safer path at the collegiate level.