Legendary Miami men’s basketball coach Jim Larrañag quits because of NIL

[CF DolFan]

College sports lost another great coach because of NIL when Miami's Jim Larranaga quit during the season.

I just didn't feel like that I could successfully navigate this whole new world that I was dealing with because my conversations were ridiculous with an agent saying to me, well, you can get involved if you're willing to go to $1.1 million. I'm like, what? A million dollars? And that'd be the norm. That was the norm. Like you're talking to people that expect a million dollars from playing college basketball. So for those guys and God bless them, they can handle that, they can work through it at the schools that can figure out a way to either put so much money to it or figure out a way that you can can live with less. But I talked to a lot of my friends and they're having all the same problems I'm having. How long they will last is anybody's guess."

[Sibster]

NIL and the transfer portal have ruined college sports.   Not that college football and basketball players aren't deserving of SOME money with all the money the schools make off them, but the way it's set up now is totally changing the mindset of these athletes.  There needs to be some rules and regulations and they need to come in fast.

[Fau Teixeira]

I have no compassion for sob stories from one of the highest paid people at the school. If he can't cut the new reality, let some other coaches better suited to college basketball take over. Maybe he can get a job coaching in Greece or Turkey.

[Spider-Dan]

It looks like Jim Larranaga was making $2.85M per year.  Apparently $1M to play college basketball was crazy and confusing to him, but almost $3M/year to tell someone how to play college basketball was completely rational and comprehensible!

Don't let the door hit you on the way out, buddy.

[Dave Gray]

I don't mind college players getting paid, but I don't really like how the NIL works.  I think that there should be a set amount that every team can pay and that you shouldn't be buying players.

[Phishfan]

Cop out. None of that is going on right now. Those are off-season discussions. I'm sure a 4-8 record has nothing to do with it.

[Sunstroke]

Apparently I haven't heard any of the legends that made him a "Legendary Miami men's basketball coach."

[Sibster]

I don't mind college players getting paid, but I don't really like how the NIL works.  I think that there should be a set amount that every team can pay and that you shouldn't be buying players.

I agree.  They need to make it like Arena Football where every player makes the same base salary and there are bonuses for making plays.   That way, the star players can earn the bigger bucks.

[Dave Gray]

I wouldn't mind if each player had a base salary that was small, but then teams could sign just a few guys up for greater contracts for not changing schools -- I think it also might help spread out talent to smaller schools a little bit.

[Spider-Dan]

There is no possibility of a system in college football that levels the playing field for player acquisition.  The big schools have too much power and no incentive to give it up.
Hell, at the FBS level the NCAA doesn't even run the postseason tournament (like they do for FCS or in college basketball).

The current system that allows the smaller schools an opportunity to play the big boys for the national championship (instead of simply being frozen out like UCF) is a miracle that took our entire lifetimes to achieve.  Similarly, NIL at least gives smaller schools the chance to buy big-time players.  It's hard to see how things can improve much from here.

[Phishfan]

I laugh out loud every time anyone brings up UCF and national championship in the same sentence. This round of playoffs should have put that to bed. College football never has 12 teams wh realistically have a chance of winning the championship. UCF would have been beaten worse than anything you sawin the first round this year.

[Spider-Dan]

Notre Dame never has a chance in hell of winning the championship and yet they have been gifted shot after shot.

The point is not whether a Cinderella team will actually win the whole thing; it's more about Cinderella teams knocking out big-time programs.

[Downunder Dolphan]

Oh, the irony! Pass me a miniature violin to play and a teacup to cry in. 

Old farts like this are so totally devoid of reality, we're all better off with them in retirement to enjoy their millions that they've scabbed off the efforts of others.

[Downunder Dolphan]

Apparently I haven't heard any of the legends that made him a "Legendary Miami men's basketball coach."

Along a similar line of thought, my first reaction was... who?

[Downunder Dolphan]

There is no possibility of a system in college football that levels the playing field for player acquisition.  The big schools have too much power and no incentive to give it up.
Hell, at the FBS level the NCAA doesn't even run the postseason tournament (like they do for FCS or in college basketball).

The current system that allows the smaller schools an opportunity to play the big boys for the national championship (instead of simply being frozen out like UCF) is a miracle that took our entire lifetimes to achieve.  Similarly, NIL at least gives smaller schools the chance to buy big-time players.  It's hard to see how things can improve much from here.

Ok. I am from another country casually observing this (for tow decades or three) very casually as my primary focus is NFL, but I am kind of confused.

So with one game to go in the new expended playoff system, of the three semi-final games played all of the underdogs (lesser ranked teams) have won. If Notre Dame beats Georgia, then the whole thing has flipped on its head going in.

Isn't this supposed to be a good thing? Where the arbitrary rankings of sports media is overridden by... the best teams actually winning in a head to head contest? Am I missing something here?