The cost of football in the commonwealth
First, Virginia gives Al Groh a contract extension worth $1.7 million a year. Not to be outdone, Virginia Tech awarded Frank Beamer $2 mil in an extension today. That's better than what two-time national champion Pete Carroll makes at USC. But, hey, gotta keep up with the competition, eh? We haven't seen this kind of deficit spending since Ronald Reagan helped drive communism out of business in the USSR in the '80s.
Actually, this tit-for-tat salary escalation reminds me even more of the petty battle my college paper had with our rival. The day after we lifted our daily circulation to 14,000, they came in at 14,001. For what it's worth, my paper is still going strong; the other is dead.