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Capping Coaches' Salaries–Donna Shalala

JeddTheFisch said:
Salary caps are for losers.

At the same time, I ******* hate that my tax dollars go toward paying anything at UiF or F$U.
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Salary caps are good for competitive balance, although not an absolute solution in sports (see NBA) Without them, a very small number of teams dominate the given sport. Great for them, but bad for the health of the overall sport.

If only Alabama, Clemson, Georgia, and Oklahoma make the NC tournament for the next thirty consecutive years do you think this helps or hurts college football as a whole?
 
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GojiraCane said:
Salary caps are good for competitive balance, although not an absolute solution in sports (see NBA) Without them, a very small number of teams dominate the given sport. Great for them, but bad for the health of the overall sport.

If only Alabama, Clemson, Georgia, and Oklahoma make the NC tournament for the next thirty consecutive years do you think this helps or hurts college football as a whole?
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A small number of teams dominate virtually every league that has ever existed, in every sport. All salary caps do is to help individual seasons look more competitive.

If only Alabama, Clemson, Georgia, and Oklahoma make the NC tournament for the next thirty consecutive years do you think this helps or hurts college football as a whole? The fact that the top 4 teams would be the same for 30 years says nothing about attendances, revenues, or what goes on at other programs. Your implication seems to be that "fan interest" would decline if it was the same four teams every year, but that has not been the case in leagues around the world that see expanded interest every year despite being dominated by the same teams over and over again.
 
dukemv said:
NBA has players salary caps. President’s salary is “capped” at $400,000. Government is meant to intervene in market failures. That doesn’t equate to socialism, at least, as how I’m imagining you two thinking of it.

I’m not sure illegal activities can be addressed, as I’m assuming a lot of the actors are part of the Good Ol’ Boys Club
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NBA is a private organization that decided a cap was good for their organization. LOL at POTUS's salary being a cap, did the world get together and cap their leaders salaries at 400k? LOL.

At the end of the day, the government has no business telling the NCAA how to run its organization. FOH with that bs.
 
OriginalCanesCanesCanes said:
Rakadovich statements are self serving. Anything that helps Clemson and keeps us down is good for them.

How about limiting college player salaries also?
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Care to bet Rakadovich is opposed to paying players and opposed to the new rules regarding a player's ability to earn money off their likeness?
 
GojiraCane said:
I don’t buy that. And the reason for that is she had ample opportunity to run the program down in 2006 after the FIU brawl, but stood firm against media pressure to kick out players like Merriweather. I’ll credit her for actually stating she wasn’t going to sacrifice student athletes just to appease national media. And in 2011, she could have easily shut down the program after the Shapiro scandal broke...and the national media would have lauded her for her courageous stand.

Her problem was not that she wanted Miami football to go away, but that she was not willing to spend money to keep pace with competition.
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Please. She’s a politician. If you think she actually wanted the football team to succeed, you should go bridge shopping.

****, even if we don’t argue that point, the results speak for themselves.

Intention is irrelevant, when we can all see the effects of the policy.
 
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CTCANE said:
The great Sam Jankovich said a few years ago that he was worried that Miami as a relatively small private school could not compete with the never ending arms race that was evolving on CFB, Unfortunately, he was most likely correct,
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No it just means you have to be smarter and more efficient with your money.
Unfortunately we don't have an administration with capable of being either.
 
Miami uses private money to rent a privately owned stadium on private land. Something no state university can claim. Yet, who has all highest funded coaches and facilities? Ahhh...you guessed it. State funded schools.
 
TheEye said:
Miami uses private money to rent a privately owned stadium on private land. Something no state university can claim. Yet, who has all highest funded coaches and facilities? Ahhh...you guessed it. State funded schools.
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That's why I think Miami might be better positioned than a lot of other schools as time goes on.

The amount of money that schools are having to put into refurbishing and updating their own stadiums is only going to escalate. And if they have to build a brand new stadium, astronomical.
 
g8rh8rMD said:
Please. She’s a politician. If you think she actually wanted the football team to succeed, you should go bridge shopping.

****, even if we don’t argue that point, the results speak for themselves.

Intention is irrelevant, when we can all see the effects of the policy.
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Understand your point completely. But what I'm saying is that she didn't want to kill the program - and that's proven by her actions in 2006 and 2011 (especially the latter). Shalala would have been celebrated nationwide for shutting down the football program or just expelling all of the players in the FIU fight. She didn't, and she fought fairly hard against the NCAA. So I give her credit there.

She just didn't value the football program enough to sustain its success, and there...the results speak for themselves.
 
jthomps123 said:
NBA is a private organization that decided a cap was good for their organization. LOL at POTUS's salary being a cap, did the world get together and cap their leaders salaries at 400k? LOL.

At the end of the day, the government has no business telling the NCAA how to run its organization. FOH with that bs.
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Federal government has a role in telling every business that does interstate commerce how to run. In addition, NCAA is comprised partly of state public institutions that receive federal aid. I think the argument that athletic departments are separate and generate their own revenue is BS because they couldnt operate separately from the academic institutions. Whether that law should apply to private institutions is a different discussion.
 
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dukemv said:
Federal government has a role in telling every business that does interstate commerce how to run. In addition, NCAA is comprised partly of state public institutions that receive federal aid. I think the argument that athletic departments are separate and generate their own revenue is BS because they couldnt operate separately from the academic institutions. Whether that law should apply to private institutions is a different discussion.
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Let me be more succinct. The federal government has zero business telling state governments or private organizations how much they can pay their employees.
 
GojiraCane said:
That's why I think Miami might be better positioned than a lot of other schools as time goes on.

The amount of money that schools are having to put into refurbishing and updating their own stadiums is only going to escalate. And if they have to build a brand new stadium, astronomical.
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Well...it makes economic sense, however, as astronomical as those costs may be, those state schools are also raking in astronomical amounts of money. Miami, is pulling in less money that those schools. So in the end, it evens out a bit. At the end of the day, if Shalala gets this bill passed, it WOULD benefit Miami and other private schools. Personally, I have issue with LSU's flooded library in the wake of a National Championship team.
 
Shalala is the centerpiece of the downfall of Miami

Mark Emmert is the centerpiece of the downfall of competitive balance.
 
jthomps123 said:
Let me be more succinct. The federal government has zero business telling state governments or private organizations how much they can pay their employees.
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If state governments and private organizations got $0 from the federal gvmnt I might agree w/ you
 
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