Why Education in America is Failing

I saw this on facebook and had to post it.  There is nothing wrong with these coaches demanding these salaries.  The law of supply and demand dictates that they earn it.  I am not suggesting they should be paid less than they are worth.

The problem is the demand.  How can the American public put the economic value of a football coach to be worth about thirteen times as much as a tenured professor?  When entertainment is valued so much more than academics by the general public, what does this say about the future of those people?

Much like the decline of the Roman Empire, as stuff continues to fall apart in America, people seem to just want to sit in the Colosseum and watch the games.  We'll give up our rights and our democracy, as long as we still have March Madness and Monday Night Football.