and Jeff Bezos doesnt single handedly generate all of the income for Amazon, but he damn sure is the one steering the ship and making the strategic decisions that lead to it...same as a head coach.PlayMikeMotenMore wrote:Freakin' Barry Switzer. Yeah, I'm going to go to that jag-bag for a comment. Stoops doesn't single-handedly generate $100 million in revenue for the university. Let's put it this way...Bigsnoop wrote:The Oklahoma newspaper years ago wrote an article about how football coach Bob Stoops was that state's highest paid employee at $4 million, and a Sociology professor made $40,000.
The paper asked former coach Barry Switzer about it, and he replied, "when that Sociology professor generates $100 million in revenue for the school, you can pay him $4 million a year, too."
Take away all the professors and there's no university and thus no football program.
Take away the football program, and the university still exists, there's still teaching, still learning.
The schools need the athletics programs more than the other way around. Remove the schools and the NCAA simply becomes AAA baseball or the AHL