Story on how majors are paying more for assistants than mid-majors can pay for head coaches

[tornado]

making it pretty tough on the mid-majors in the future...

http://www.justinmvoccola.com/2012/04/21/why-mid-majors-could-struggle-in-the-future/

[Gwright]

There is another dimension to this as well. I know Tulane (solidly in the mid-major category), was willing to pay a football coach major BCS money, and had the ability to, however, we could not get a top candidate to come coach for us, even for monopoly money, therefore we ended up paying the final choice less than a "BCS" coach would go for. I think this also goes a long way to keeping that gap between BCS coaches and mid-majors alive.

While you might be able to pay millions for a coach that isn't at the BCS level, there is no reason if you can get him for cheaper. BUT, when he leaves and is worth more than you pay him, in some cases it LOOKS like the BCS school has loads more money, when in fact he wasn't worth that money when he started.

Now, I know Tulane is not the average mid-major, and we have some major resources, but it's a problem that we run into with a low quality football team.

[amettrick]

That guy might be right, but that was one poorly written blog piece.