I'm just speculating here, but every team you listed there kind of sucks. Maybe this is the best team he can coach and having a multimillion dollar contract in hand is better than not having one.

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At every school you visited, were you also signing up to join the military by attending? Shouldn't our military academies be holding themselves to a little higher standard than Florida State when it comes to football recruiting? Shouldn't "honor" and all that bullshit prevent this from happening?

Getting high school kids drunk to convince them to join the army doesn't sound bad to you?

Because he wasn't trying to bring a bottle of water through security?

If I were that guy, I'd be pointing everyone to this article and reminding them that I look like Paul Rudd.

That's just because Glen Rice didn't have a camera phone. http://deadspin.com/5841835/all-th…

Is it more out of place for Deadspin to post this or for ESPN's sports business reporter to post that and a copy of the school's policy?

Reread his post and yours, and then let us know if you think what you're saying has any relationship to the post above (spoiler alert: it doesn't).

You're ignoring the rest of the argument. Taking the one year off is intended to allow him to make more in his career. That's the point. You're just a bitter idiot arguing with the side benefit of the year off rather than the actual point of greater compensation in future years.

Ever hear of diminishing marginal returns? 2 million means a lot more to you than to him. I'm pretty sure he won't starve in that year and if waiting gives him a better chance at winning (and therefore greater enjoyment and greater future earnings), it makes sense to be patient. You're focused on the short term, not…

What the fuck does this have to do with anything? You said:

Seems more like he's looking for someone to notice the door isn't all the way closed, knock and ask if they can come in. Which, if you work in an industry where your employees need to take ownership and be perceptive, is actually a test of that. I didn't see anything that indicated he expected people to walk right…

I totally agree. Let's shoot Peyton Manning out of a canon!

Cleaning up messes that others leave behind is also what attorneys and consultants do. And, we actually make a fair bit more than the janitors.

People always lose sight of the other side of this, if you're a normal person you probably take the bottle of water because they are politely offering it. Therefore the assholes that came up with that question are actually only getting the kind of employees that are too passive to take the water — probably not good…

He's the one doing the interviewing. If he wants people that are that assertive, that's sort of his call, right?

Expanding on this a little, music really is cheaper now. They don't have to make CDs, tapes or records for the most part, so each additional listen doesn't cost the label or artist as much. Records labels have always kept a disproportionate amount of the money from those sales anyway, so I don't view it as the…

Yeah, but what about the > 50% of people that don't watch sports but are paying an arm and a leg for those tv bundles because ESPN and the networks have to pay their major sports league contracts?

You should spend some time looking into how recording industry contracts work. The lion's share of artists don't get paid very much out of their album sales. If you're only listening to the very biggest names, your analysis may hold up, but even in that second tier, I think you'd be shocked how much the labels keep.