Tramel: Paying Kruger 2.2 million is cents-less

[OUHoops]

http://newsok.com/tramel-ou-paying-...article/3555201?custom_click=lead_story_title

 

[thebigabd]

Dumb article..

The premise of the story is that it is senseless to pay a big time coach 2.2 million.

Then, in the next paragraph talks about how everyone in the league and around the country makes around that much money, and that its well within OU's budget.

Uhhh, what?

 

[ouscotty]

And in many of our opinions whatever Tramel is paid is too much. So what is his point?

 

[htownSOONER]

Hard to argue with that. Considering the revenue basketball does bring in, in most companies coaches are overpaid.

 

[Shooterms]

By Tramel's logic, professors are overpaid, also.

 

[Romulus]

with OU's new network, they had to make an expensive investment to ensure they have a quality basketball program to sell

 

[bocabull]

Berry should have wrote subsidized instead of artificial. Somebody send him a link to dictionary.com.

 

[seniorsooner]

Berry being Berry

 

[trueou]

Most writers just want to start an argument. So they ignore the total story just to tweak someone's nose. As another poster pointed out, basketball is subsidized by football at a lot of schools.

What he ignores is the school pride involved in college athletics. Duke, NC, Kansas and other basketball schools have to rely on basketball to provide them with notoriety in college athletics. And those programs are profitable. Their football programs, not so much.

But there is no way that OU, Texas, Florida, and Ohio State are just going to surrender the basketball competition war to the basketball schools. They believe, rightfully so, that they can compete with the basketball schools. And they can compete and therefore must pay the same salaries.

College athletics is just not about making a profit. If it were, probably 60% of Division I schools would close down their athletic programs.

 

[HeismanWatch]

http://newsok.com/tramel-ou-paying-...article/3555201?custom_click=lead_story_title

Berry Tramel didn't add the $400k retirement bonus that OSU's coach gets annually, so that's $2.2M in itself. OSU and OU are tied in BB coaching salaries.

 

[thegreyghost]

or you can not pay and get frank haith

 

[colston15]

So what's the alternative, Berry?

 

[scrybe]

I have completely lost what little respect I had for Tramel as a sports columnist. Some of his more recent offerings have provided sufficient evidence that he's clueless/ignorant.

 

[Jason]

Anyone paying Twamel to write this crap is just as "cents-less."

 

[boksooner]

His overall premise is an accurate one: basketball revenue, alone, does not justify the salaries for quality coaches. Ignoring the intangible and indirect reasons for paying for quality coach hurts the articles credibility, though.

 

[oSuJeff97]

Dumb article..

The premise of the story is that it is senseless to pay a big time coach 2.2 million.

Then, in the next paragraph talks about how everyone in the league and around the country makes around that much money, and that its well within OU's budget.

Uhhh, what?

I disagree with your analysis about the point of the article.

The point was that it doesn't make much sense to pay any basketball coaches these amounts. He says that "the market" for "big time" basketball coaches is screwed up, given basketball's place in the "big money" business of college athletics.

We saw last summer how important basketball was in the scheme of things when Kansas, with all of their tradition and elite status in b-ball, was about to be left out in the cold during conference realignment.

Another good example is the Big East taking TCU, based purely on their football program.

 

[sooner8]

I have come to realise that buying the D.Ok. & reading their columns is cents-less!!!!