(12-31-2018 12:50 PM)JRsec Wrote:  High stress, 60+ hour weeks, boosters who think they own them, and a recruiting season that never ends as they try to entice young kids (most who don't have their priorities in order) to play for their schools, and virtually no family life are the reasons.

In a sense the boosters do own them. The head coaching compensation is so high now that boosters are paying for most or all of the salaries and the buyouts. When the boosters writing the checks say that they didn't want Diaz to leave and it's time for Richt to retire, or that Alford has to be pushed out today instead of at the end of the season, the ADs and school presidents don't push back because the boosters, not the schools, are supplying the money to finance these multi-million dollar transactions.