Nick Saban, who makes $9.5 million a year to coach quasi-amateur football, isn’t thrilled that quasi-amateur football players are free to earn as much money as they can. Mississippi coach Lane Kiffin will earn a mere $7.25 mil this season. He complained that Ole Miss can’t match the “funding resources’’ of other schools. Mr. Kiffin did not suggest he’d reach into his own wallet to help make up the difference.
You get where we’re going with this?
Well, you might be wrong.
Name, Image and Likeness has turned big-money college sports on its head.