Originally Posted by
HereBeforeCoachK
You don't give up do you? The Bennett analogy is very flawed. Just as Dabo wasn't paid like Saban until a few years after he got Clemson on the same plane, the same situation is at UVa vis a vis Duke. The man who brings the most revenue to the ACC now is Dabo, followed by K, FWIW.
As for K constraining what the university can do...I'm quite sure that men's basketball is the only sport generating a profit at Duke. The FB program isn't, unless you allocate the ACC's rev share almost exclusively to football (thank you Dabo again). The 1.3 paid to a mediocre to the long time coach of a poor WBB program is constraining, not K's salary. Money may be fungible going out, but it comes in through very specific individual avenues.
And then there's the fact that some or all of the coach pay does not come from the general athletic operating fund.