The market would agree. Fact: Athletes are some of the most fairly paid people in the workforce because their salary is based almost exclusively on demand. Thus, WNBA make far less than NBA. It isn't personal. It's what the market demands.
That might be so. And I would say that building loyalty and a sense of team is an important part of coaching. Some coaches are better at it than others.
While I think this is just smoke, and probably a way to get a nice contract extension/pay raise, I could see a world where alot of bright minds/coaches jump from CFB to the NFL to get rid of the NIL/recruiting/portal headaches that are happening. I dont see how these guys do it.... literally a 365 day a year job now to be a big time CFB coach
Princely and ETN are the only legit players that left that really hurt. The others you can’t blame as they are just trying to get them some playing time somewhere. So I guess in that respect Napier is doing fairly well with the guys he recruited
Princely and ETN both hurt. We agree there. The fact that they’re going over to our enemies is insult to injury.
I know we all want Kirby to jump. But consider that a Bama thought to be beyond its prime beat him with a slapped together QB.
Not really. It's a profession now. Do you get mad every time someone you know changes employers to a company that is a competitor?
Maybe like everyone else he’s sick of recruiting, divas, the portal, and NIL. Seems like most great college coaches try the NFL when they think they are above it or have nothing else to aspire to at the college level. Ala Saban. Ala Spurrier.
Every time? No. But if I had personally recruited and took a chance on someone, trained them up, made them a valued member of my time only to see them jump to my competitor and use what I had taught them against me without so much as a go [stuff] yourself, then, yeah, I might feel just a touch of professional antipathy.
I guess. . . but nobody's got it better than him right now. Just flirting would land him a new contract that's worth more than the top NFL deal. He loves to recruit and I'm sure they have all the NIL money in the world.
I feel like Saban used the NFL as a stepping stone. He left LSU for the NFL, but that was more of a natural progression of his career whereas they had been knocking on Spurrier's door for years and he finally bit when Snyder threw the bank at him (and we were fussing about a Top-10 season).
I feel like the bigger issue was the Administration failing to back him up with his allegations against Darnell Dockett deliberately injuring Ernest Graham in 2001. Spurrier had earned the right to be heard on that, and the video evidence was pretty compelling.
Kirby has proven he is an elite coach - given the current NIL situation, if your going to coach pros, do it in the NFL. Yes, the odds are against him being successful in the nfl, not because he is a college coach, but because very few keep their jobs. I could see Muschamp being a D coordinator at the nfl level as well. If it wasn't for bama, they probably win 3 in a row.
