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Morning Hot Reads: Exit Plan

The DESERET NEWS goes with the header, "Where’s the joy gone? With college football in disarray, coaches are heading for the exit." For decades, all power in college football "resided with management" -- coaches, TV networks, the NCAA, the big schools -- and the players "were at the mercy of the NCAA and its cheap, petty rules and notions of amateurism." Now all the power "lies with the players, and once again it has swung too far to one side." Which is why some coaches are "heading for the exits -- they’ve "seen enough." When has anyone "given up a head coaching job at an FBS school to take an assistant coaching position in the NFL?" That’s "how bad things are in college football."

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