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That’s kind of a fallacy. The coaches get paid $5 million+, but big time football and men’s basketball programs bring in hundreds of millions that pay for all of the other sports and a lot of academic programs.
For Aidan: 100 million is a lot when you consider there were a lot of watch parties. I watched the game with my father. We counted as 1 tv view but it was 2 of us. A lot of families/friends/etc. watched together.
Between watch parties, and the fact that not everyone in that 308 million population has their own home and TV (children most obviously), a viewership number of 123.4 million essentially means the whole country was watching.
One thing to keep in mind, while there are 300+ million people in the US, lets not forget the metrics to count who is watching is based on what channel is tuned to, not the occupancy of the house. I've been to numerous Super Bowl parties where dozens of people are attending and watching together.
@@CrackheadYoda Yes. Gen z seem to gravitate towards Basketball, MMA & Extreme sports more than any other sports tho on average. Studies have shown gen z watch sports on social media and don't tend to watch full games and are less likely to go to sports events live. Each year with the advent of technology/video games, each generation has lost 10% of young people watching sports in general.
They created an exception during the Trump administration, but the Biden admin has since gotten rid of that and the students are now required to go serve first before trying to come back and become professional athletes.
Yes Daz, basketball player David Roberson was recruited from Navy’s military academy to the NBA and there has been others recruited from the military academies of all branches to play in NBA and NFL sports.
The thing about American college sports is they have a built in, loyal for life fanbase. Whoever goes to that school or ever went from generations past still watch and or attend games. Regardless of where they move to, they still stan their school. Then when they have kids, they basically indoctrinate their kids to go to their alma Marter. It's a huge business.
Saban struggled coaching the Dolphins a little over a decade ago and went back to college. It's different. You have to remember that each college team's best player is just 1 of the similarly talented 11 on the field at any time for every team.
There's usually something like 30 or 40,000 students in one of these campuses. The students are part of the fanbase but it's alumni and the geographic area surrounding the college that makes up the largest percentage.
John Harbaugh (coach of the Ravens) and his brother Jim Harbaugh (now coach of the Chargers) both took their teams to the Super Bowl and coached against each other when Jim was coach of the 49ers. Saban was an NFL coach and left to be Alabama's coach and he is one of the greatest of all time in college. College vs NFL are very different things.
11:19 the Harbaugh Brothers are John (older) and Jim (younger). John coaches the BAL Ravens and Jim now coaches the Los Angeles Chargers (after winning this year’s college football championship with Michigan). They actually coached against each other in the Super Bowl in 2012 as Jim was a coach for the SF 49ers then.
Another thing to remember with the Super Bowl viewership is it’s counting the TV’s that are tuned into it. Many people go to parties or bars, where they all watch on one-a few TV’s so that only counts a few “views”
The University of Wisconsin (Madison) has approx 49,000 students. Football began 1889 and has a historic stadium from that time...Camp Randall, which is built over old Union Civil War training grounds and finally fully completed in 1917, is the oldest college stadium and 5th largest in all football at approx 83,000. Football started in 1889 or so though the school was founded the same year Wisconsin became a state in 1848. Also, Wisconsin and University of Minnesota have the longest consecutive games played in their legendary rivalry over 160 years which later included the Paul Bunyan axe to the winner. Super atmosphere. The infamous "Jump Around" before the start of the 4th Quarter and then the party 5th Quarter to celebrate, win or lose. Also is amongst the 20 ranked for football--depending on the years but have made it to many Rose Bowls which is the "Granddaddy of them all" as far as the top 4 bowl games, basketball, hockey (men and women)---Championship teams, and women's volleyball...most are ranked 10 or higher.
Graduates of Military Academies draw a 5-year service obligation after graduation. There have been rare exceptions like David Robinson NBA-Center from the Naval Academy...he served 2yrs active duty and then transferred into the Nsvy Reserves (very specisl arrangement) to play with the Spurs. Roger Starbach did a similar thing to play with the Cowboys. People forget that academy cadets are on active duty, drawing "pay", while at the academy. There is no summer vacation. They attend special training during the Summer like Airbourne and Ranger training....as well as be assigned to active units around the world. I spent 28yrs in the Army and Ive had cadets for a month or two in Germany, Korea and CONUS.
Daz hit it right on the spot, dealing with millionaire pro athletes can be very difficult. Many successful college coaches fail in NFL. Also, college coaches recruit players that fit their program which includes their attitudes/behavior.
Nick Saban did actually coach in the NFL for 2 years as the head coach of the Dolphins from 2005-2006 after winning a college title at LSU. He went 15-17 in those two years and then went back to the college level where he won another 6 titles at Alabama. Just goes to show that college is a much different game than the NFL. At the college level, it’s as much about recruiting as it is about coaching. And you have much more control over how your program operates, whereas in the NFL, you have a front office that is responsible for putting your roster together. Some NFL coaches are given a lot of control over the roster but not everyone is cut out for that and it doesn’t usually work well.
The Harbaugh brothers already were both in the NFL. Jim was the coach at Michigan for the past few years. In the 2013 Super Bowl the brothers coached against each other. Jim was the head coach for the 49ers, and John was the head coach for the Ravens.
Roger Staubbach, (quarterback) went to the Naval Academy, won the Heisman trophy (best College player) served a tour in Vietnam, then played for the Dallas Cowboys and won 2 Superbowls.
Hey guys great review. There are about 53,000 students at Michigan. One thing that a lot of people overseas don't understand is that college football is much older than professional, so they will have more followers. Plus, there are more universities as well. But Michigan has been playing since the 1870s. In fact, they are one of the big teams that led to the sport becoming national, as they introduced the sport to the Midwest or at that the the populated west, so college football has deep roots in American culture and psyche.
Jim harbaugh just signed with the chargers but he's already been a pretty successful NFL coach with the 49ners. Funny enough he faced his brother's team in the Super bowl in 2013 when the lights went out. Nick Saben also coached the Dolphins for 2 seasons but wasn't successful, so it doesn't always translate.
College Football was BIGGER, MORE IMPORTANT, than the NFL for most of the 20th Century. Things began to flip in the 1960s, and NFL was king by the 1980s.
I've written this many times: Successful college football programs are mostly (90%) located in college towns, not cities. A college town will have a population of less than 150,000.
Fun fact. Dabo swinney’s godson Tanner Tessmann currently plays at Venezia FC in Italy. He could've got a scholarship to Clemson to be their kicker but he decided to try soccer and has been in Italy since 2020
4:00 One thing to remember is that measurement of viewers is based off the Neilson score, not actual viewers. A lot of people go to sports bars and such to watch big games so you might have 120 people watching on six or eight scenes and the Neilson score just counts the number of tvs.
In the 40s and 50s navy and army had many great teams, but now very very few military players make it into the draft. David Robinson played basketball fo the Navy academy and became one of the great NBA players. If you do get drafted you need to get an exemption to get out of your military service requirements.
Roger Staubach attended the U.S. Naval Academy, where he won the 1963 Heisman Trophy playing for the Midshipmen. After graduation, he served in the U.S. Navy, including a tour of duty in Vietnam. Staubach joined the Dallas Cowboys in 1969, becoming the team's second major franchise quarterback after the retirement of Don Meredith in 1968. Staubach played with the Cowboys during his entire career. He led the team to the Super Bowl five times, four as the starting quarterback. He led the Cowboys to victories in Super Bowl VI and Super Bowl XII. Staubach was named Most Valuable Player of Super Bowl VI, becoming the first of four players to win both the Heisman Trophy and Super Bowl MVP, along with Jim Plunkett, Marcus Allen, and Desmond Howard. He was named to the Pro Bowl six times during his 11-year NFL career. Staubach is one of ten players to both win the Heisman Trophy and be elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and the only quarterback. He is regarded as one of the best quarterbacks of all time.
The football coach being the highest paid public employee for the military and for each state, it is also true the high school head coach is usually the highest paid public employee for each city and town (or each school district) in the USA. All applicants are required to obtain a nomination to the academies. Nominations may be made by Congressional Representatives, Senators, the Vice President, and the President. The admissions process to the U.S. service academies is an extensive and very competitive process. The Military Academy, the Naval Academy, and the Air Force Academy all require an applicant to submit an online file and proceed through pre-candidate qualification before an application is provided. The average acceptance rate is between 8-17% for each of the schools. Upon graduation and the receipt of a Bachelor of Science degree, the cadets and midshipmen commission as second lieutenants or ensigns and must serve a minimum term of duty, usually five years plus another three years in the reserves. If the student's chosen occupation requires particularly extensive training (such as aviation or special operations), the service commitment may be longer. Roger Starback, USN Academy graduate and Dallas Cowboys quarterback, only serve two years in active duty, but still had to fulfill his eight years of service, six years in the reserves. So exemptions can be awarded.
The military coaches get the money because they're recruiting a tough, block shredding, hard hitting linebacker for 4 years, and an amazing Navy Seal after that.
The most important difference between coaching NFL and college is that in college , recruiting players is the most important part of the job .When I played high school football in Alabama 60 years ago we drew around 5,000 fans per game .
12:17 Nick Saban has actually already coached in the NFL as Head Coach of the Miami Dolphins from 2005-2006. In 2005, they were 9-7 and missed the playoffs. In 2006, he was 6-10. His only losing season as a head coach. That was his only time as a Head Coach in the NFL. Though he had been an assistant coach in the NFL a few other times.
U also have to remember most people are having superbowl partys with multiple people watching the same tv so 120 million tvs watched with a population of 330 million people and many of those tvs had 5,10 maybe even 20 people all watching on the same tv not including people who go to bars to watch the game etc.
When Chip Kelly went from coaching the Oregon Ducks to coaching the Philly Eagles he tried to bring the same level of discipline. He told the players they were not allowed to talk on the bus ride to the game. WR DeSean Jackson stood up and said, "Fuck you Chip, I got 4 kids and make 10x your salary!"
Michigan's student body is usually over 40,000, but nowhere close to filling up the stadium on their own. Ann Arbor is slightly more populous than the stadium, and the whole Detroit metro area is over 6 million people, so even though some fans travel from much further away, it's not like they can't get a big crowd just from the local area.
Coaching in college is often looked at as harder than the NFL because it also comes with a full-time year-round recruiting job. You spend every moment you aren’t coaching flying around the country convincing high school kids to come play for you instead of Nick Saban.
9:38 Most Power 5 schools (the 60+ big universities like Michigan, Georgia, USC, Alabama etc) have around 20-60k students any given year. What the state schools like football like Georgia, Michigan, Florida, Alabama, LSU, Penn State etc do is remarkable. Mostly due to the allegiance of the state school. Some people grew up near the communities and rooted. Others are alumni who want to catch a game, but college sports support is extremely high for football.
There is a lot more than the Alabama Crimson Tide and Auburn Tigers for college athletics in the state of Alabama. The other division one teams in the state include the university of South Alabama, my team UAB or the university of Alabama at Birmingham, Jacksonville State, the university of Troy, university of North Alabama, Alabama A&M University, Samford University, Alabama State University… There are also more at the lower levels. All of these teams are also very well supported. Jacksonville State averaged 15,000 fans per game last season. South Alabama regularly bring in over 20,000 fans per game. Over 27,000 fans attended the Sunbelt conference championship game between Appalachian State and the University of Troy in Troy Alabama last December. As for pro sports… No, we don’t have any MLB/NFL/NBA/NHL/MLS teams… But we do have three fully professional baseball teams that compete in the minor leagues, two fully professional soccer teams, one fully professional basketball team, and two fully professional American football teams.
I went to Southe Alabama before we had football(1978-1983). We had s baseball coach named Eddie Stanky(lol) who said as long as he was coach there, there would not be football at South. He was also one of the most racist players to play with Jackie Robinson. What an ass!!!!
The NFL combine will be coming soon ,this is where the draft eligible college players come to be evaluated by the teams .They are weighed ,measured ,given mental tests and are interviewed by the teams individually . They are also run through various football related drills ,timed in the 40 yard sprint,do high jump and broad jump and lift weights . It is televised . How well the players perform at the combine affects when and where they will go in the draft on April 25 which is also televised . For real NFL fans these two events are the most interesting of the year because you get to see which new potential stars will be coming to your team and its rivals .
17:52 A small minority of military academy cadets/midshipmen are focused on a predetermined service branch well in advance of their appointment and attendance. Generally, they are legacy candidates whose families have a long history and tradition with that branch. However, most candidates apply to all four military branch academies (Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard). Application is by no means a guarantee of appointment, as the academies are amongst the most selective post secondary institutions in the country. In other words, they apply everywhere, and they simply go wherever they're accepted. Only if they receive multiple appointments, do they have the luxury of choosing. Fun little bit of information: although the smallest service branch, the Coast Guard Academy was at one time (perhaps still is) the most selective of the four, accepting the smallest percentage of applicants per available appointment. I am not certain why that is the case. The Cost Guard is unique. Historically, it didn't fall under the umbrella of the Department of Defense. It reported to the Secretary of the Treasury. It is also the only branch unilaterally endowed with legal powers of arrest. The other branches have military police. But their jurisdiction ends outside of military authority.
Point of order: Major League Baseball drew 68 MILLION in total attendance in 2023. In College Football, the 130 FBS teams +/- drew 37 Million in 2022. Its highly doubtful that the rest of CFB (FCS, Div-II, Div-III, etc), would make up an additional 31 Million to match or surpass the 68 Million attendance of MLB.
It’s actually supposed to be a lot easier to coach an nfl team compared to a college team, because in the nfl you’re just a coach, in college you’re worrying about coaching, recruiting, etc. actually just saw a clip of Jason kelce explaining why he would never coach a college team, but would consider nfl
Hey that guy in fire hat has been chanting jets for a long time. Saw an interview with him on the Pat McAfee show he was one of the firefighters the poor people are 9/11. Shout out of that guy man. Love from Arizona
Good info! ..Remember, there are college basketball and college baseball coaches who earn $millions annually. Some women's college basketball coaches earn millions. Many of these campuses have much less than 30,000 students. And all of the billions of dollars goes directly into the bank accounts of a few, and zero to the players. Remember, 99% of all college athletes get ZERO NIL money. Still the biggest exploitation in the world.
I believe Nick Saban was a coach in the NFL for 7 years or so. I know he coached at the Miami Dolphins. Nothing like being at a College football game. It's like the energy could power the city for a week.
The players who attend the Military Academies to play sports still owe 6 years of full time military service post graduation. There have been a few rare exceptions to this rule. One was David Robinson the NBA player for the San Antonio Spurs who was released early from his military commitment to compete in the NBA. Cheers
Nick Saban was the head coach at Miami Dolphins before he was fired for being terrible. Then Alabama hired him. Jim Harbaugh was HC at SF 49ers before he was fired. Then hired by Michigan.
Just tell me you recognize the dichotomy that America finds itself dealing with for English. You don't like the non-french pronunciation of premier but when America uses the French pronunciation of herbs, which Brits used to say originally and left us with, we get it going the other way.
The number of 124 million people watching the Super Bowl is simply TV boxes/satellite dishes. It doesn’t take into account that the game might be on at the house party with 25 people present. It only factors in that one television set not all 25 people. Better number for how many people actually watched the Super Bowl in the United States is probably around 240 million or double what the TV number says.
So some have touched on the point, but not fully explained to the uninitiated. When we say “Army,” “Navy,” and “Air Force,” we mean the individual academies (one for each service). These aren’t generic college units, but dedicated service academies whose mission is to train and educate future commissioned officers of each service. These three in West Point, Virginia; Annapolis, Maryland; and near Colorado Springs, Colorado respectively, are not the only place where officers are trained for these services, but it has been generally understood in modern times that officers in general ought to have a college degree. In 2019, for instance, the Navy & MC commissioned 1065 from their Academy verses 5805 total (took a long time to find the actual statistics on that and those numbers are almost 6 years from the current ones). So the Academy of a service is an important institution but not the only one.
A lot of these teams are in places where there's not much else to do and it's part of the culture. And there's only about 6 or 7 home games. Of course everyone in the region will go. Can you imagine if the NY Yankees only had 6 or 7 home games? It creates an insane level of focus.
For your question about college coaches going to the NFL, it rarely works out because both are different skill sets. College coaches develop young students and recruit prospects to the school. They need to excel at teaching and commanding authority. NFL coaches manage millionaires at the top of their craft. Their focus is strategic game planning and treating their locker room as equals rather than subordinates.
There is absolutely a difference between coaching in college and the NFL. Like you mentioned, you hold more power over your players because of their professional aspirations, but the biggest part is recruiting, which wouldn't be a thing at all in the NFL. The best college coaches are also the best recruiters. Nick Saban actually did coach in the NFL, for 2 years with the Dolphins, but had a pretty tepid term there, and after he failed in the pros he went to Alabama and the rest is history.
The Michigan attendance figures are inflated. 2014 they were giving away 2 tickets with the purchase of two Coke products. So for $3 you could get 2 tickets to their game. Attendance was down because they weren't very good. Michigan had around 50,000 students. Ohio State about 70,000
Keep in mind, that when we say "college" we're talking 18 - 22 year olds for the most part. These guys are as much adults as the youngest NFL players. And now due to a rule change in 2022, college players can get paid from their likeness in advertisements and video games.
You get to factor in that people host watch parties that have groups of people watching on one screen lol. The number only factors in tv screens not digital or multi family households/ groups lol
College players who play the full 4 years play between the ages of 18-22, sometimes a little younger. If they leave early they enter the NFL at age 21, sometimes even age 20. It is not common to have someone enter at age 24 unless they were injured in college and/or transferred.
The football programs bring in so much money that goes back into the whole military school system..it pays for almost everything..that's why they pay the coaches so much... it's big business.
Nick Saban was the head coach of the Dolphins before he went to Alabama and he failed miserably. Jim Harbough (har-bah) took the 49ers to the Super Bowl before taking the job at Michigan. Some coaches can coach at both levels some are just great at college. The big difference is you can run a college program like a dictator where in the pros your coaching grown men who some make 4x more money then you and won’t put up with a coach acting like a ruler of men.
The military academies are officer school. That's where the generals and admirals come through. Part of their scholarship comes with an agreement to serve after. I believe it's 6 years. Navy had an excellent QB a few years back and he was allowed to delay his services while attempting to have a career in the NFL.
Coaching between the nfl and college is very different the most obvious thing being recruiting in college the coaches spend the entire year not just coaching but also recruiting High school players for the next year, going to games, meeting parents, taking students on tours, etc. but not only that the college and nfl game is also different some rules are slightly different but also the types of offenses used can vary alot compared to the nfl …. Many nfl coaches have had a hard time coaching in college and vice versa because the job description while it seems similar on paper are actually very different
A lot of players get paid now but most got full ride scholarships to that college so they actually have a much better start to life compared to most other students with thousands and thousands of dollars in debt. I think that there is more of a problem now with players getting paid than before, only the qbs, rbs, and wrs are getting big money, its pretty unfair to the offensive linemen and such imo.
If your state's highest paid public employee is not a football coach, then it's probably a basketball coach.
Yep like Bill Self in Kansas.
In New Hampshire before he retired, it was Dick Umile who was the head coach for the men’s hockey team at UNH.
That’s kind of a fallacy. The coaches get paid $5 million+, but big time football and men’s basketball programs bring in hundreds of millions that pay for all of the other sports and a lot of academic programs.
Friday night lights is peak American culture. Fall, football, the marching band
High school football, baby!!!
For Aidan: 100 million is a lot when you consider there were a lot of watch parties. I watched the game with my father. We counted as 1 tv view but it was 2 of us. A lot of families/friends/etc. watched together.
Between watch parties, and the fact that not everyone in that 308 million population has their own home and TV (children most obviously), a viewership number of 123.4 million essentially means the whole country was watching.
University of Michigan student enrollment in 2023 was 53k+. You don't have to be a student to attend a game.
Bigger than the population of Ann Arbor
@@SGlitz What ? Population of Ann Arbor, MI is 123K.
I just looked it up as well, and what my search showed was a little over 52K.
Most of the fans at college football games are students and alumni. We've said this a million times to them.
@@areguapiri Exactly. A built in loyal fanbase that will root for their school regardless of where they move to.
One thing to keep in mind, while there are 300+ million people in the US, lets not forget the metrics to count who is watching is based on what channel is tuned to, not the occupancy of the house. I've been to numerous Super Bowl parties where dozens of people are attending and watching together.
Like Daz said tho, not all are sports fans. Half are female. A lot are kids, elderly.
@@JoshuaMartian-go3tmI’m a 26 y/o man and most of the time I could care less about the Super Bowl lol.
@@CrackheadYoda That seems to be the trend. Gen Z cares less about sports in general than generations before.
@@JoshuaMartian-go3tm I’m a huge basketball and baseball fan, just not football.
@@CrackheadYoda Yes. Gen z seem to gravitate towards Basketball, MMA & Extreme sports more than any other sports tho on average. Studies have shown gen z watch sports on social media and don't tend to watch full games and are less likely to go to sports events live. Each year with the advent of technology/video games, each generation has lost 10% of young people watching sports in general.
If you play for Army, Navy or Air Force you must complete your military obligations before going pro. See David Robinson for basketball
They can get a waiver, it's usually approved, but they usually have to hold some sort of IRR committment.
They created an exception during the Trump administration, but the Biden admin has since gotten rid of that and the students are now required to go serve first before trying to come back and become professional athletes.
Will they look it up? :-/
Well that wasn’t true for Elgin Baylor, who had to fulfill military obligations during his career
Roger Staubach as well
Technically, the coaches aren’t in the military, they are civilians working for the military.
Yes Daz, basketball player David Roberson was recruited from Navy’s military academy to the NBA and there has been others recruited from the military academies of all branches to play in NBA and NFL sports.
The thing about American college sports is they have a built in, loyal for life fanbase. Whoever goes to that school or ever went from generations past still watch and or attend games. Regardless of where they move to, they still stan their school. Then when they have kids, they basically indoctrinate their kids to go to their alma Marter. It's a huge business.
Which is also why it’s able to be so corrupt and monopolized over the major sports recruiting process.
college players get paid?
The Harbaugh brothers were both in the NFL before and played in the superbowl in 2013 Ravens vs 49ers
The Harbowl. Only time the lights literally went out and the Ravens still won. Epic day in time. (Biased Bmore fan lol)
Coached.
Saban struggled coaching the Dolphins a little over a decade ago and went back to college. It's different. You have to remember that each college team's best player is just 1 of the similarly talented 11 on the field at any time for every team.
The military academies had NFL draft picks back in the 1940s - 60s . QB Roger Staubach being the most famous
No so much anymore.
There's usually something like 30 or 40,000 students in one of these campuses. The students are part of the fanbase but it's alumni and the geographic area surrounding the college that makes up the largest percentage.
John Harbaugh (coach of the Ravens) and his brother Jim Harbaugh (now coach of the Chargers) both took their teams to the Super Bowl and coached against each other when Jim was coach of the 49ers. Saban was an NFL coach and left to be Alabama's coach and he is one of the greatest of all time in college. College vs NFL are very different things.
11:19 the Harbaugh Brothers are John (older) and Jim (younger).
John coaches the BAL Ravens and Jim now coaches the Los Angeles Chargers (after winning this year’s college football championship with Michigan).
They actually coached against each other in the Super Bowl in 2012 as Jim was a coach for the SF 49ers then.
Another thing to remember with the Super Bowl viewership is it’s counting the TV’s that are tuned into it. Many people go to parties or bars, where they all watch on one-a few TV’s so that only counts a few “views”
The University of Wisconsin (Madison) has approx 49,000 students. Football began 1889 and has a historic stadium from that time...Camp Randall, which is built over old Union Civil War training grounds and finally fully completed in 1917, is the oldest college stadium and 5th largest in all football at approx 83,000. Football started in 1889 or so though the school was founded the same year Wisconsin became a state in 1848. Also, Wisconsin and University of Minnesota have the longest consecutive games played in their legendary rivalry over 160 years which later included the Paul Bunyan axe to the winner.
Super atmosphere. The infamous "Jump Around" before the start of the 4th Quarter and then the party 5th Quarter to celebrate, win or lose.
Also is amongst the 20 ranked for football--depending on the years but have made it to many Rose Bowls which is the "Granddaddy of them all" as far as the top 4 bowl games, basketball, hockey (men and women)---Championship teams, and women's volleyball...most are ranked 10 or higher.
Graduates of Military Academies draw a 5-year service obligation after graduation. There have been rare exceptions like David Robinson NBA-Center from the Naval Academy...he served 2yrs active duty and then transferred into the Nsvy Reserves (very specisl arrangement) to play with the Spurs. Roger Starbach did a similar thing to play with the Cowboys.
People forget that academy cadets are on active duty, drawing "pay", while at the academy. There is no summer vacation. They attend special training during the Summer like Airbourne and Ranger training....as well as be assigned to active units around the world. I spent 28yrs in the Army and Ive had cadets for a month or two in Germany, Korea and CONUS.
Daz hit it right on the spot, dealing with millionaire pro athletes can be very difficult. Many successful college coaches fail in NFL. Also, college coaches recruit players that fit their program which includes their attitudes/behavior.
Nick saben already tried the NFL being a head coach didn’t go too well
The Super Bowl actually had over 200 million viewers this year, not 140
Nick Saban did actually coach in the NFL for 2 years as the head coach of the Dolphins from 2005-2006 after winning a college title at LSU. He went 15-17 in those two years and then went back to the college level where he won another 6 titles at Alabama. Just goes to show that college is a much different game than the NFL. At the college level, it’s as much about recruiting as it is about coaching. And you have much more control over how your program operates, whereas in the NFL, you have a front office that is responsible for putting your roster together. Some NFL coaches are given a lot of control over the roster but not everyone is cut out for that and it doesn’t usually work well.
The Harbaugh brothers already were both in the NFL. Jim was the coach at Michigan for the past few years. In the 2013 Super Bowl the brothers coached against each other. Jim was the head coach for the 49ers, and John was the head coach for the Ravens.
Roger Staubbach, (quarterback) went to the Naval Academy, won the Heisman trophy (best College player) served a tour in Vietnam, then played for the Dallas Cowboys and won 2 Superbowls.
Hey guys great review. There are about 53,000 students at Michigan. One thing that a lot of people overseas don't understand is that college football is much older than professional, so they will have more followers. Plus, there are more universities as well. But Michigan has been playing since the 1870s. In fact, they are one of the big teams that led to the sport becoming national, as they introduced the sport to the Midwest or at that the the populated west, so college football has deep roots in American culture and psyche.
USC Trojans head football coach Lincoln Riley's contract is $110 million dollars for 10 years. He also has free use of a private jet anytime he wants.
Jim harbaugh just signed with the chargers but he's already been a pretty successful NFL coach with the 49ners. Funny enough he faced his brother's team in the Super bowl in 2013 when the lights went out. Nick Saben also coached the Dolphins for 2 seasons but wasn't successful, so it doesn't always translate.
College Football was BIGGER, MORE IMPORTANT, than the NFL for most of the 20th Century. Things began to flip in the 1960s, and NFL was king by the 1980s.
I've written this many times: Successful college football programs are mostly (90%) located in college towns, not cities. A college town will have a population of less than 150,000.
Fun fact. Dabo swinney’s godson Tanner Tessmann currently plays at Venezia FC in Italy. He could've got a scholarship to Clemson to be their kicker but he decided to try soccer and has been in Italy since 2020
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One thing to remember is that measurement of viewers is based off the Neilson score, not actual viewers.
A lot of people go to sports bars and such to watch big games so you might have 120 people watching on six or eight scenes and the Neilson score just counts the number of tvs.
In the 40s and 50s navy and army had many great teams, but now very very few military players make it into the draft. David Robinson played basketball fo the Navy academy and became one of the great NBA players. If you do get drafted you need to get an exemption to get out of your military service requirements.
Nick Saban Coached the Dolphins for 2 years and went 15-17. He straight back to College afterwards
College Football *_PLAYOFFS_* is expanding in 2025, the new TV Broadcast deal is $7.8 Billion/6-years: $1.3 BN annually.
Roger Staubach attended the U.S. Naval Academy, where he won the 1963 Heisman Trophy playing for the Midshipmen. After graduation, he served in the U.S. Navy, including a tour of duty in Vietnam.
Staubach joined the Dallas Cowboys in 1969, becoming the team's second major franchise quarterback after the retirement of Don Meredith in 1968. Staubach played with the Cowboys during his entire career. He led the team to the Super Bowl five times, four as the starting quarterback. He led the Cowboys to victories in Super Bowl VI and Super Bowl XII. Staubach was named Most Valuable Player of Super Bowl VI, becoming the first of four players to win both the Heisman Trophy and Super Bowl MVP, along with Jim Plunkett, Marcus Allen, and Desmond Howard. He was named to the Pro Bowl six times during his 11-year NFL career. Staubach is one of ten players to both win the Heisman Trophy and be elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and the only quarterback. He is regarded as one of the best quarterbacks of all time.
I am so thankful I don't have to watch soccer or rugby on a regular basis..
March Madness coming soon. 🏀
$1.1 Billion tournament
The football coach being the highest paid public employee for the military and for each state, it is also true the high school head coach is usually the highest paid public employee for each city and town (or each school district) in the USA.
All applicants are required to obtain a nomination to the academies. Nominations may be made by Congressional Representatives, Senators, the Vice President, and the President. The admissions process to the U.S. service academies is an extensive and very competitive process. The Military Academy, the Naval Academy, and the Air Force Academy all require an applicant to submit an online file and proceed through pre-candidate qualification before an application is provided. The average acceptance rate is between 8-17% for each of the schools.
Upon graduation and the receipt of a Bachelor of Science degree, the cadets and midshipmen commission as second lieutenants or ensigns and must serve a minimum term of duty, usually five years plus another three years in the reserves. If the student's chosen occupation requires particularly extensive training (such as aviation or special operations), the service commitment may be longer.
Roger Starback, USN Academy graduate and Dallas Cowboys quarterback, only serve two years in active duty, but still had to fulfill his eight years of service, six years in the reserves. So exemptions can be awarded.
The military coaches get the money because they're recruiting a tough, block shredding, hard hitting linebacker for 4 years, and an amazing Navy Seal after that.
The most important difference between coaching NFL and college is that in college , recruiting players is the most important part of the job .When I played high school football in Alabama 60 years ago we drew around 5,000 fans per game .
12:17 Nick Saban has actually already coached in the NFL as Head Coach of the Miami Dolphins from 2005-2006. In 2005, they were 9-7 and missed the playoffs.
In 2006, he was 6-10. His only losing season as a head coach.
That was his only time as a Head Coach in the NFL. Though he had been an assistant coach in the NFL a few other times.
U also have to remember most people are having superbowl partys with multiple people watching the same tv so 120 million tvs watched with a population of 330 million people and many of those tvs had 5,10 maybe even 20 people all watching on the same tv not including people who go to bars to watch the game etc.
The biggest reason that the attendance is so high is that everyone lives on campus or relatively close nearby
When Chip Kelly went from coaching the Oregon Ducks to coaching the Philly Eagles he tried to bring the same level of discipline. He told the players they were not allowed to talk on the bus ride to the game. WR DeSean Jackson stood up and said, "Fuck you Chip, I got 4 kids and make 10x your salary!"
Here is a crazy perspective. The US president makes 400,000 a year. That means the service academy coaches make 4 times our president. Lol
It's 120+ million TVs tuned in. Super Bowl watch parties means probably 80-90% of the US was watching the Super Bowl
Michigan's student body is usually over 40,000, but nowhere close to filling up the stadium on their own. Ann Arbor is slightly more populous than the stadium, and the whole Detroit metro area is over 6 million people, so even though some fans travel from much further away, it's not like they can't get a big crowd just from the local area.
Coaching in college is often looked at as harder than the NFL because it also comes with a full-time year-round recruiting job. You spend every moment you aren’t coaching flying around the country convincing high school kids to come play for you instead of Nick Saban.
13:36 college coaches also have to recruit players to the program.
9:38 Most Power 5 schools (the 60+ big universities like Michigan, Georgia, USC, Alabama etc) have around 20-60k students any given year.
What the state schools like football like Georgia, Michigan, Florida, Alabama, LSU, Penn State etc do is remarkable. Mostly due to the allegiance of the state school. Some people grew up near the communities and rooted. Others are alumni who want to catch a game, but college sports support is extremely high for football.
Most of the fans "are" alumni.
There is a lot more than the Alabama Crimson Tide and Auburn Tigers for college athletics in the state of Alabama. The other division one teams in the state include the university of South Alabama, my team UAB or the university of Alabama at Birmingham, Jacksonville State, the university of Troy, university of North Alabama, Alabama A&M University, Samford University, Alabama State University… There are also more at the lower levels. All of these teams are also very well supported. Jacksonville State averaged 15,000 fans per game last season. South Alabama regularly bring in over 20,000 fans per game. Over 27,000 fans attended the Sunbelt conference championship game between Appalachian State and the University of Troy in Troy Alabama last December. As for pro sports… No, we don’t have any MLB/NFL/NBA/NHL/MLS teams… But we do have three fully professional baseball teams that compete in the minor leagues, two fully professional soccer teams, one fully professional basketball team, and two fully professional American football teams.
I went to Southe Alabama before we had football(1978-1983). We had s baseball coach named Eddie Stanky(lol) who said as long as he was coach there, there would not be football at South. He was also one of the most racist players to play with Jackie Robinson. What an ass!!!!
The states of Michigan and Ohio went to war against each other in 1835. The Rivalry on the field started in 1881. But the war is nearly 200 years.
Ohio lost. They ended up with Toledo.
53k attend U of M in 2023 but you also have to remember a lot of the alumni go to the games.
The NFL combine will be coming soon ,this is where the draft eligible college players come to be evaluated by the teams .They are weighed ,measured ,given mental tests and are interviewed by the teams individually . They are also run through various football related drills ,timed in the 40 yard sprint,do high jump and broad jump and lift weights . It is televised . How well the players perform at the combine affects when and where they will go in the draft on April 25 which is also televised . For real NFL fans these two events are the most interesting of the year because you get to see which new potential stars will be coming to your team and its rivals .
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A small minority of military academy cadets/midshipmen are focused on a predetermined service branch well in advance of their appointment and attendance. Generally, they are legacy candidates whose families have a long history and tradition with that branch.
However, most candidates apply to all four military branch academies (Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard). Application is by no means a guarantee of appointment, as the academies are amongst the most selective post secondary institutions in the country.
In other words, they apply everywhere, and they simply go wherever they're accepted. Only if they receive multiple appointments, do they have the luxury of choosing.
Fun little bit of information: although the smallest service branch, the Coast Guard Academy was at one time (perhaps still is) the most selective of the four, accepting the smallest percentage of applicants per available appointment.
I am not certain why that is the case. The Cost Guard is unique. Historically, it didn't fall under the umbrella of the Department of Defense. It reported to the Secretary of the Treasury. It is also the only branch unilaterally endowed with legal powers of arrest. The other branches have military police. But their jurisdiction ends outside of military authority.
Point of order: Major League Baseball drew 68 MILLION in total attendance in 2023. In College Football, the 130 FBS teams +/- drew 37 Million in 2022. Its highly doubtful that the rest of CFB (FCS, Div-II, Div-III, etc), would make up an additional 31 Million to match or surpass the 68 Million attendance of MLB.
It’s actually supposed to be a lot easier to coach an nfl team compared to a college team, because in the nfl you’re just a coach, in college you’re worrying about coaching, recruiting, etc. actually just saw a clip of Jason kelce explaining why he would never coach a college team, but would consider nfl
Hey that guy in fire hat has been chanting jets for a long time. Saw an interview with him on the Pat McAfee show he was one of the firefighters the poor people are 9/11. Shout out of that guy man.
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Good info! ..Remember, there are college basketball and college baseball coaches who earn $millions annually. Some women's college basketball coaches earn millions. Many of these campuses have much less than 30,000 students. And all of the billions of dollars goes directly into the bank accounts of a few, and zero to the players. Remember, 99% of all college athletes get ZERO NIL money. Still the biggest exploitation in the world.
Roger Staubach -Naval Academy
Heisman winner, super bowl champion
My favorite NFL player of all time.
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I believe Nick Saban was a coach in the NFL for 7 years or so. I know he coached at the Miami Dolphins. Nothing like being at a College football game. It's like the energy could power the city for a week.
The players who attend the Military Academies to play sports still owe 6 years of full time military service post graduation. There have been a few rare exceptions to this rule. One was David Robinson the NBA player for the San Antonio Spurs who was released early from his military commitment to compete in the NBA. Cheers
Nick Saban was the head coach at Miami Dolphins before he was fired for being terrible. Then Alabama hired him. Jim Harbaugh was HC at SF 49ers before he was fired. Then hired by Michigan.
Just tell me you recognize the dichotomy that America finds itself dealing with for English. You don't like the non-french pronunciation of premier but when America uses the French pronunciation of herbs, which Brits used to say originally and left us with, we get it going the other way.
The number of 124 million people watching the Super Bowl is simply TV boxes/satellite dishes. It doesn’t take into account that the game might be on at the house party with 25 people present. It only factors in that one television set not all 25 people. Better number for how many people actually watched the Super Bowl in the United States is probably around 240 million or double what the TV number says.
So some have touched on the point, but not fully explained to the uninitiated. When we say “Army,” “Navy,” and “Air Force,” we mean the individual academies (one for each service). These aren’t generic college units, but dedicated service academies whose mission is to train and educate future commissioned officers of each service. These three in West Point, Virginia; Annapolis, Maryland; and near Colorado Springs, Colorado respectively, are not the only place where officers are trained for these services, but it has been generally understood in modern times that officers in general ought to have a college degree. In 2019, for instance, the Navy & MC commissioned 1065 from their Academy verses 5805 total (took a long time to find the actual statistics on that and those numbers are almost 6 years from the current ones). So the Academy of a service is an important institution but not the only one.
West Point's in New York
Its probally more like 150 million since people host partys lol nobody ever watches it alone
A lot of these teams are in places where there's not much else to do and it's part of the culture. And there's only about 6 or 7 home games. Of course everyone in the region will go. Can you imagine if the NY Yankees only had 6 or 7 home games? It creates an insane level of focus.
For your question about college coaches going to the NFL, it rarely works out because both are different skill sets.
College coaches develop young students and recruit prospects to the school. They need to excel at teaching and commanding authority. NFL coaches manage millionaires at the top of their craft. Their focus is strategic game planning and treating their locker room as equals rather than subordinates.
BASEBALL draws 70,000,000 per year, across the 30 MLB teams.
Since 2000 Only 3 players have been drafted to NFL from a military academy.
There is absolutely a difference between coaching in college and the NFL. Like you mentioned, you hold more power over your players because of their professional aspirations, but the biggest part is recruiting, which wouldn't be a thing at all in the NFL. The best college coaches are also the best recruiters. Nick Saban actually did coach in the NFL, for 2 years with the Dolphins, but had a pretty tepid term there, and after he failed in the pros he went to Alabama and the rest is history.
Roger Staubach and David Robinson graduated from the Naval Academy and had pro careers.
It’s hard in college to coach cause you have the alumni, to contend with that contribute a lot of money to the universities
Military players can be drafted,but they must honor their commitment to the military..it's usually four years,then they can pursue athletic careers.
It’s 5 years, after the 4 years of schooling.
The Michigan attendance figures are inflated. 2014 they were giving away 2 tickets with the purchase of two Coke products. So for $3 you could get 2 tickets to their game. Attendance was down because they weren't very good. Michigan had around 50,000 students. Ohio State about 70,000
Keep in mind, that when we say "college" we're talking 18 - 22 year olds for the most part. These guys are as much adults as the youngest NFL players. And now due to a rule change in 2022, college players can get paid from their likeness in advertisements and video games.
Except 99% of the players get zero NIL money.
You get to factor in that people host watch parties that have groups of people watching on one screen lol. The number only factors in tv screens not digital or multi family households/ groups lol
Roger Staubach - Navy - Dallas Cowboys.
Hey… somebody finally spelled his name correctly!!! Bravo!
Aiden always taking shots at the cowboys yet his team has beat the cowboys for about 5 years now. Playing them 2 times every year💀💀💀
There are several schools like Georgia that barely dont get in the 100k average because they can only get about 93k stuffed inside.
College players who play the full 4 years play between the ages of 18-22, sometimes a little younger. If they leave early they enter the NFL at age 21, sometimes even age 20. It is not common to have someone enter at age 24 unless they were injured in college and/or transferred.
Aidan is correct, any athlete with plans on playing in college for a military school will undoubtedly know which service they want to go for.
The football programs bring in so much money that goes back into the whole military school system..it pays for almost everything..that's why they pay the coaches so much... it's big business.
If you go to a HS football game, do it Texas.
Nick Saban was the head coach of the Dolphins before he went to Alabama and he failed miserably. Jim Harbough (har-bah) took the 49ers to the Super Bowl before taking the job at Michigan. Some coaches can coach at both levels some are just great at college. The big difference is you can run a college program like a dictator where in the pros your coaching grown men who some make 4x more money then you and won’t put up with a coach acting like a ruler of men.
We don’t care what the world thinks of our sports. Just envy and jealousy from the world.
Chip Kelly the now former head coach for UCLA Football was the highest paid state employee here in California
Jim Harbaugh used to be the Coach for the San Francisco 49ers and then went to Coach University of Michigan and now is the Coach of the LA Chargers
Also a lot of people host Super Bowl parties and almost every sports bar and places like Buffalo Wild Wings are packed
My family had end zone tickets at The Big House for 70 years!!!
Most ppl from Alabama professional teams are from Georgia, Braves Hawks Falcons
Buh?
@@SkewtLilbttm name a professional team in Alabama.. I'll wait
What does that have to do with anything?
I was commenting on your writing abilities which are few.
@@SkewtLilbttm cool. Haha
Did you say you’re going to the Alabama vs Georgia game. Wow. That is incredible
The military academies are officer school. That's where the generals and admirals come through. Part of their scholarship comes with an agreement to serve after. I believe it's 6 years. Navy had an excellent QB a few years back and he was allowed to delay his services while attempting to have a career in the NFL.
I think people forget 124 million views doesn’t equal people.
Saban did coach in the nfl for the dolphins. Failed there and went to college. Big difference between coaching in college and nfl.
The salary of college coaches is the highest salary in most states.
Nick saban was an Nfl coach from 1988 to 2006, original cleveland browns....anyone?
Coaching between the nfl and college is very different the most obvious thing being recruiting in college the coaches spend the entire year not just coaching but also recruiting High school players for the next year, going to games, meeting parents, taking students on tours, etc. but not only that the college and nfl game is also different some rules are slightly different but also the types of offenses used can vary alot compared to the nfl …. Many nfl coaches have had a hard time coaching in college and vice versa because the job description while it seems similar on paper are actually very different
A lot of players get paid now but most got full ride scholarships to that college so they actually have a much better start to life compared to most other students with thousands and thousands of dollars in debt. I think that there is more of a problem now with players getting paid than before, only the qbs, rbs, and wrs are getting big money, its pretty unfair to the offensive linemen and such imo.