Punish the coaches

I wonder why the players and schools are punished when the coaches who violate NCAA rules and regulations are not.

The most recent case that comes to mind concerns Paul Wulff, ex-football coach at Eastern Washington.

He and his staff violated rules and regulations. The kids who play the game were punished, the school was punished and Paul Wulff gets hired by WSU at a high salary and brings his assistants who also get paid high salaries.

EWU gets punished, the players get punished and Wulff is allowed to coach at another NCAA school. He should have been banned from coaching at an NCAA school for three years or maybe forever. Instead, he gets a healthy five-year contract making $600,000 a year plus incentives. Wulff’s nine paid assistants will earn a collective $1.13 million, plus or minus, annually.

The ones who were at fault are rewarded. Wulff’s contract should be voided and so should the assistants and then they would know how the players and students feel.

Lloyd Zimmerman

Spokane