THE BROO VIEW with Ken Broo

I'm trying to figure out why the world of collegiate athletics is so different from the real world. The University of Cincinnati is looking for a new football coach today. Monday, Mark Dantonio skated. He was under contract to the University of Cincinnati for the next three years. But he's at Michgan State today, on the payroll there as the new head football coach.

I don't know what you do for a living, but if you have a contract, chances are if another business comes calling, your boss would tell you, 'sorry, you work for me until your contract is up'. It doesn't work that way in the world of big time college athletics. Routinely, coaches walk on contracts in pursuit of a better deal. But, they leave behind players tbey recruited who are tied to the university that holds their letters of intent. Does that seem a little unfar?

Shouldn't the player be granted his or her free agency, when the coach they agreed to play for decides his contract isn't as binding as theirs? The NCAA doesn't think so.

I have a theory: if one athletic director or university president has the guts to tell another school with more money who comes after their coach 'no', sorry, you can't talk to our guy he's under contract....if only one school will do that....scores of other schools would follow.

Which school will have the guts to say it? Whichever school it is will change the face of collegiate athletics forever....and for good.