Editorial: On, Wisconsin! On to the bank! College football cashes in while players get peanuts

On the surface, the only thing more absurd than a public university paying its football coach millions of dollars a year is a public university paying its football coach $11 million to go away.

University of Wisconsin officials are preparing to write that eight-figure check to ousted coach Paul Chryst. In announcing the deal, the Badgers took pains to point out that $11 million is much less than the $20 million remaining on Chryst’s contract, and the money will come not from