I hope you are kidding right? I mean you are talking about NCAA sports. A completely tax free, government run institution covering hundreds of teams across multiple sports. No, the University of Florida isn't packing up and moving to Georgia. The only reason is that's impossible, otherwise you bet your ass if they could make a few million more they'd be on their way. College pimps... I mean coaches are the worst. Seriously, USC loses a national title because their coaching staff allowed players to get paid off and cheated. What happens to the assistant coach on that team? He gets a nice promotion since winning in the now is all that matters, not doing the best for the student.
Yes you get kicked out for spying (Actually I don't think Barry Switzer even got fined or anything when he admitted it, but lets pretend something happened). You can however get kicked out for eating a portion of pasta that's $3 too large. You can get benched for an entire year because the head coach who recruited you as a kid got himself kicked out of the school for hiring hookers for players and you don't want to play for them anymore. Seriously, you want to talk about the athletes with the fewest rights? Imagine if the NFL said "Sure you can be a free agent, but we will suspend you for a year before you change teams".
You know how hard it is to get kicked out of college football? You can pretend you have no idea your students were getting passing grades for classes they never even went to, or your assistant coaches are paying out millions to kids to send them to this agency or that one. Quick. Tell me with all the rules violations, with all the corruption, tell me how many coaches the NCAA, the governing body has banned from being in charge of college students?
The NFL is about profits. They are a business. It's why they make moves that benefit the business. College football hides under this guise that they are there to help students grow with something fun for them to do. Yeah. Coaches ruin students college athletic career by cheating and forfeiting seasons, then, because they can make a school money, another Athletic Director will hire them and put them in charge of student athletes lives again.
It’s not as if Div. I presidents had any desire to ask, let alone discover, how and why their schools land top recruits — so many with poor grades and so many from so far away. College presidents are fundraisers. If big donors demand winning basketball teams, the presidents allow their institutions of higher learning to serve as fronts.
If winning games isn’t the top priority, why are coaches by far the schools’ best-paid employees, with millions more paid to buy out the unsuccessful?
And it’s not as if the local district attorneys want to poke around in the Dumpster next to the athletic department to investigate that stench. They’ve got to worry about elections. Many are season-ticket holders, too. If local yahoos, especially wealthy yahoos with political clout, want their college team to win at any and all costs, why ruin their fun and risk their favor?
Either the NCAA is the most corrupt organization in sports, or the most ignorant (at least right there with FIFA and Olympics).
It's why Michigan pays gov't employee Jim Harbaugh more than all 50 Governors make in a year. What is it? something like the top 180 gov't employees work for the NCAA?