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Has anyone calculated the multiplier for Ole Roy's contract? Is his situation any different than Davis'? I don't recall anyone getting excited when roy came aboard with what is surely a lucrative contract.

There can be no doubt that we are not living in an age of scholar athletes. Those days are long gone. It would seem now that the best we can hope for is that college coaches will follow Bobby Knight's lead and actually require their players to attend class and make a good faith effort to graduate, if they want to be on the field or court.

I think ol' Roy is a little ahead of Butch Davis. But he's the BASKETBALL coach. At Carolina, basketball is part of the Religion Department.

Better say something soon, because State is likely to pay even more for its next big-time football coach.*Doug

Doug! Nothing has really change in College Sports in the last 50 years. Simply the cost of inflation and other large overhead to operate the system.

Early in another life as a scholarship jock. I once fiqure out my rate of pay as a College jock for the University. It came out to 3 cents per hour for the time to be a employee of the College Sports Department. At that point! I realize that I was simply working at pre-civil war slave rates even without consulting with my Econ 101 free market Prof.

I decided to overcome this labor problem in my last year was to borrow money to prove that I didn't need them to aquire my degree. I will never forget the Treasure of the School when he said I couldn't do that when I paid the registation fee for that year. He pick up the phone and call the Head Coach who said I couldn't do that either since I was breaking a contract with the school and it would screw up the bookeeping.

It was my greatest year knowing the Coach couldn't say anything to me nor threaten to run me off the team with no aid. Free at last! Free at last!

Little did I know that after finishing school. The bank and the United States Government would demand repayment for my ROTC service contract for future services in Nam. It was hell filling out those monthly bank coupons notes in the middle of a firefight knowing that I had screw up the accounting system of a major college sports department.

I will care when Friday, starts griping about the fees paid to left wing liberals that speak at the schools.

Now even Harvard is dumbing down its liberal arts curriculum, and they don't even have a decent team in a major sport.

The upshot seems to be that employers demand a piece of sheepskin, but then gripe when the graduates can't write or speak about anything other than sports and pop culture.

Or maybe most CEOs of the future plan to only speak on hose subjects.

Sorry. wrong post. It doesn't tie in. Except that the obscene contracts for coaches send exactly the wrong message to students and alumni: academics at this school are not our first priority.