In a $32 million dollar deal the University of Alabama has enticed Nick Saban away from the NFL’s Miami Dolphins to be its new head football coach.

This has caused UA Trustee Emeritus Garry Neil Drummond to ponder, “What are we about as a university?”

When it comes to sports, as Peter Roby, director of Northeastern University’s Center for the Study of Sport in Society, says, “the trend suggests there is no limit to what universities are willing to do.”