Collegiate athletics on a good day is a macrocosm of hypocrisy and lack of personal ethics.
We’ve all heard college and university presidents say that education should come first, but in a competitive environment of trying to find student athletes, the culture has shifted to being one all about the money. Is this the type of personal ethics we strive to be an practice?
When did we start paying college coaches millions of dollars annually to be football and basketball coaches representing the lion’s share of revenue to athletic departments?
Even Associate Head Coaches and assistants at larger universities and colleges are now making $300,000 or more annually. That is a lot of money, and for that amount of scratch is it too much to find honest and ethical individuals who actually put the lives of their players first and the greater needs of their employer ahead of their own?
Evidently, this was quite difficult for some coaches like Chip Kelly, Jim Tressel, George O’Leary, Butch Davis, and Bruce Pearl who were not honest, accountable, ethical, or responsible. Where was their moral compass and personal ethics?
Most of these individuals were eventually fired from their jobs but received wonderfully large severance payments. How is this possible when 99% + of all Americans working today in the business world would never receive these entitlements for unethical, dishonest, or illegal behavior?
For college presidents, athletic directors, and legal officers at our colleges and universities to turn either a blind eye or simply not believe any allegations against them and the coaches they hired is something outside of the Milky Way Galaxy.
While most of these individuals have good intentions and present themselves as people who care, their morals, principles, and values flipped upside down putting their own interests first. Why is this?
I’m not a trained psychologist, but simply someone who studies the intent of the soul. It is my experience and observations of 32+ years of business that highly paid individuals enjoy their compensation, power, and the benefits of their positions.
This can breed ignorance, ambition, greed, and arrogance void of personal ethics. Any thing or anyone that poses a threat to their position of power is at risk.
Little do they know in the long run and bigger picture that they are in fact at risk. Always think about what your personal ethics are and how you deploy them daily in your lives.
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