Question for college football experts.

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9. New early signing date

The NCAA approved an early signing date this year, Dec. 20, whereas before high school players had to wait until February (there is still a signing date then). That is a recent factor but the overall trend is just more and more money being poured into these programs, with salaries for top coaches going through the roof. Coaches still pay lip service to "team" and integrity and loving their players but when it comes down to it, a coach who makes a big leap from a mid-major or even a less successful Power 5 school to one of the big time programs can go from making hundreds of thousands or a million a year to $3M to $5M a year. Even if they fail and get fired some still walk away with $10M left on their contracts the school owes them.

So to answer your question big-time college football has become extremely lucrative for the top coaches, so loyalty to their previous school is a low priority compared to getting a running start at their new school that is paying them a lot more money.