Oh, I know it is a football coach. It's that way in almost all of the states with even remotely serious college football.

And yeah, it speaks very poorly to our value system. Hell, the fact that we've let athletics and education continue so entwined in this country is a problem in my book. One we have about zero chance of solving, but a problem nonetheless. And I say that as someone who devotes all of his fall Saturdays to college football (well, now that the kids don't have their own sports on Saturdays much).