College sports arms race

From a Paul Daugherty column in the Cincinnati Enquirer:

UC football is 5-0, and suddenly Kelly's $800,000-a-year base salary isn't big enough. Nippert Stadium needs luxury boxes, there is no outdoor practice field and, really, how are we supposed to compete without an indoor place to practice?

Sounds familiar, eh? An undefeated team in the Big East is hitting up its fans and supporters for more and more money as it joins the bigtime athletic arms race. UC is bigger and its alumni and supporters are probably wealthier than those of Marshall, considering the doctors, lawyers and engineers UC puts out every year.

Remember when former Marshall football coach Bobby Pruett complained constantly about not having an indoor practice facility or this, that and whatever? This at a time when students were shut out of some required classes and faculty pay was the lowest in Division I schools?

At some point, this has to stop. Universities are for education, not entertainment, no matter what the marketing department and fans who never set foot on a college campus say.