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Time for coaching carrousel again
As of right now some of the more prominent schools who have a spot on this years' carrousel include Arkansas, Georgia Tech, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, Southern Mississippi, Texas A & M, and Washington State just to name a few. The coaches who have departed from these programs either through retirement, resignation or out and out dismissal will most likely leave with a severance package that will tide them over for a while, but the sting of being forced out however it is portrayed will not go away quickly. It is possible that some of them will land other coaching jobs or join the ever increasing number of former coaches who have become television analyst or sports commentators. Some will probably resurface as assistant coaches at another school where they may some day help develop a game plan that will allow their new school to defeat a team coached by their successor. Then of course there are some who will simply take the money they have made and invested wisely over the years and go home. With so many high profile programs in the market for a new coach some of the up and coming young coaches who have paid their dues as assistants for several years could possibly be on several wish lists. There is also the probability that some highly respected and well established head coaches at other programs may become a target for these search committees as well. In that case, the school where the sought after coach currently holds the reigns will more than likely find themselves checking their existing contracts for buy out clauses or renegotiating a contract depending on how badly they want to keep the current coach in place. Of course if an active head coach does elect to leave one program to go to another then the carrousel will pick up yet another rider and the ride continues. Eventually when all the positions are filled the carrousel will stop for another season but it will not be put away. For somewhere out in the world of college football there are already other tempests of disenchantment and discontentment beginning to brew for next year. It is an inevitable occurrence in this world of 'what have you done for me lately'. Although there can be and often are other reasons why a head coach is removed from his position, the primary one seems to be simply wins and losses. More often than not the cry that rings out the loudest is "he certainly needs to be doing a better job considering what we pay him." And on the surface I would tend to agree with them when you see the seeming inordinate amount of money most college head coaches make these days. But on the other hand if you consider the amount of money the programs they direct actually generate for the schools they work for, it makes the high priced salary seem a little less out of reason. That is especially true if you compare their salary against that of some of their counterparts in businesses and major corporations that generate similar income. Don't get me wrong, for the most part I firmly believe they are all overpaid. But to be fair, if we are going to look for people in jobs that are getting paid more than they are worth college head coaches really aren't at the top of the list. Movie stars, television personalities, and professional athletes would have to top the list and then if we had all the necessary information we could probably name many others who would be ahead of the poor old college coaches. Shoot, if we consider the productivity of the American work force today as compared to years gone by we probably would have to agree that most all of us are overpaid. I bet if we looked hard enough we might even find a few people who are on minimum wage that would be considered overpaid based on what they accomplish in a work day. Hum? Maybe taking all things into consideration being overpaid isn't that big an issue after all. But that winning and losing is another matter!
Until next time…….be safe!
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