Life at Big Money U.

They're not being paid this much to attend to the men's wrestling team's needs. (What's a men's college wrestling team? Uh, sorry, showing my age there):

Athletics directors at schools in the NCAA's Football Bowl Subdivision (excluding four that moved up to the FBS in 2012) make an average salary of roughly $515,000, up more than 14% since USA TODAY Sports last looked at AD compensation in October 2011.

The above passage reminds me of a prophetic warning ushered by LSU basketball coach Dale Brown about the future of college coaching almost 30 years ago. Brown was swimming in the polluted waters of major college basketball every bit as much as his peers, but at least he had the decency to be disgusted by it:

I'll tell you what you're going to have left in this [coaching] profession. A bunch of narcissistic, money-hungry sonofabitches that love to see themselves on TV in their three-piece suits and alligator shoes because good people are fed up with the crap you've got to go through.

Now of course he was talking about this...

... and not the ADs who hire, indulge and excuse his ilk. But Brown's point remains: The corporate sports colossus has distorted, disfigured and destroyed all the best qualities of college sports. And it's the money-hungry sonofabitches who are cashing in.