Quote Originally Posted by Gunny View Post
Coincidentally, I caught in a little blurb yesterday Coaches are the highest paid state employees in 39 states. I don't get it either. Pro football players when I was a kid had day jobs. The NFL paid so poorly quite a few transitioned into pro wrestling. It paid 5x as much.

One of the new laws here (in TX) this year is students can now make money on their "likenesses". When a football player can make more money than the President of the United States, the result is glaringly obvious.
Sports is big(ger) business these days.