puband09
Masters Student
Posts: 782
Reg: 12-19-09
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03-14-11 04:30 PM - Post#101012
In response to sparman
I think some of you are placing a bit too much emphasis on the money alone. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think in a field like athletics (or film, or music where I happen to work), professionals are equally if not more preoccupied with "glory" and "fame" as they are dolla dolla bills.
If you are Johnson and you see the opportunity to coach for 30 years, get one or two upsets and a boat-load of media attention, and be inducted into the Hall of Fame the year you retire, that's much more intriguing than 5 years of near-guaranteed failure at a non-powerhouse BCS school.
Would a coach with Pete Carill's resume after 30 years at UVA even get inducted or be a flagship name in the NCAA? It doesn't seem like 1 first-round upset and an NIT championship would do it.
Assuming he is compensated enough so as to be comfortable with his family, I easily see the Johnson I think I know sticking with Princeton over a plethora of BCS offers.
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