Sure they do. There is no one and nothing stopping anyone from starting up a football d-league. Just because a school and the institutions to which it belongs has a set of rules doesn’t mean it isn’t a free market.

Builds the program culture, hires and retains talented coaches, recruits elite players, creates the strategic plan for the program and team, holds people accountable — you know...basic leadership stuff.

He was the strategic leader of the football program.

Is it necessary to call people names? It isn’t a wage...it is, however, compensation.

I think there should be a d-league for football — sponsored by the NFL. Let college football be for serious student-athletes and let the d-league be for those who want to get paid cash money and who aren’t interested in attending college.

Why? Because you think it is? The free market disagrees with you. And he doesn’t get $5M per year to coach a game...I coach my kid’s flag football team. Dabo gets paid $5M per year to coach a D-1, Power 5 conference team to championships that contribute to tens of millions of dollars in TV revenue, ticket sales,…

He’s not entitled to it. He’s earned it, according to the free market. Clemson could’ve chosen to NOT pay him that much money and some other school likely would have. You may not agree that he’s earned it or worth it or entitled to it...but that isn’t for only you to say. If one party, one person, one organization…

Tuition, books, room, board — all paid for. Also, given cash stipends — they are being paid for their work and they are not living in poverty.

Your final statement seems to be imply that making money in a non-professionalized endeavor is somehow wrong. Am I misunderstanding?