College athletics has changed in many ways during the last ten years. Colleges fire coaching staffs with expensive Buy Out clauses, then offer a new coaching staff even more financially laden contracts. One coach recently described himself as a HIRED GUN to win football games. Players who perform well on the field in college can, after three years go on to the NFL. Non-athletic students graduate with student loans that take years to pay off. Gifted young men and women from lower income families don't have a chance to go to college. I suggest colleges with athletic budgets over a certain amount, including coaches salaries and incentives, be required to transfer a percentage of that budget to academic programs to lower tuition or offer scholarships to those who are otherwise priced out.



