As news spread throughout college football last week that the beleaguered Nebraska Cornhuskers and embattled coach Scott Frost were under NCAA investigation, the words of legendary Rollins basketball coach Tom Klusman came to mind.
I interviewed Klusman several years ago about why he never left Rollins to pursue a big-time job at one of our nation’s institutions of higher earning, and he pointed to all of the unscrupulous behavior, the illicit payments and the academic fraud that goes on in big-time college basketball.
“If you make as much money as those guys do,” Klusman said in reference to many of the coaches at big-time programs, “you’re probably going to do something you shouldn’t do to try to keep your job.