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Great article! I wholeheartedly agree, although reckless greed and mistreatment of labor seems to be celebrated as the American way. Those in power will never embrace change or go quietly. They have too much to lose. #plantationcapitalism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/08/07/college-sports-embraced-reckless-greed-with-coronavirus-crisis-bill-has-come-due/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/08/07/college-sports-embraced-reckless-greed-with-coronavirus-crisis-bill-has-come-due/
"It means clawing back the salaries of grossly overpaid failed-upwards administrators, such as Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott’s $5 million a year compensation for pure incompetence, and redeploying money to sports under threat."
"It means Alabama carrying just one “football analyst” instead of 13. It means cutting Dabo Swinney’s $9 million salary to $2 million and doing the same to all the other coaches in the Power Five conferences, whose collective pay amounts to a staggering $1.2 billion."
"It means hiring college administrators who won’t honcho around but who will do their actual assigned job, which is to run educational nonprofits with low overhead that spread merit-based scholarships to as many deserving kids as possible, in as many sports as possible."
