University of Michigan is selling itself outfor what?

I think it is finally time for Everyone to admit that the time has come where there is no doubt that the mindset of most Colleges isn't on the students or molding them for the future but it is to appease the Alumni, Regents, Sponsors, Sports fans, University Contributors and all those who care far more for Wins in the Sports Departments than anything else!  Case in point  is that it has been reported that the University of Michigan has offered the NFL's San Francisco 49'ers head coach , Jim Harbaugh a deal of $49 million for 6 years! Mind you that this is the same coach that U of M passed over when choosing a coach in the past but now has decided He is the right man for the job! This same University fired their previous Coach (Rich Rodriguez) before hiring Brady Hoke for not winning more games and had decided that they needed to bring a U of M man back to coach them at that time and you know where that got them the past few years. Everyone knows what Rich-Rod has done since taking over at the University of Arizona. But it seems U of M succumbed to the same peer pressure from all these outside influences and decided they needed to offer Jim Harbaugh more money than any other college coach to come in and try to right their floundering football program, even after they announced they had hired a prestigious head hunter group to go after the top talent in coaches. Only one Coach was on that list? When did our Colleges lose touch with reality and decide they would now pay Coaches the same amounts that they pay Coaches of Pro Sports teams?  Our Colleges now feel that these Coaches should make all this money for overseeing one sport then the President of these Universities who oversee everything make far less. We now put these Coaches on pedestals and worship them when they win and run them out of town when they lose.  I can see this happening in Pro Sports where the Owner puts up their money to run a team, but with all the emphasis on winning at the Collegiate level now, what happens to the students and the student athletes? The Coaches know coming in they are judged and rewarded for wins , how many really care if the athletes graduate or get a good education?  By paying these Coaches the same huge wages as Pro Sports teams leads allot of credence to the Group of former Northwestern players who filed a lawsuit against the NCAA to pay the student athletes to play sports. If the University of Michigan can afford to pay a Head Coach over 8 million a year to coach, then they surely can afford to pay student athletes more than just a small stipend (as it is being proposed by the NCAA) and a free education. maybe they ought to stop offering free rides of a scholarship and charge student athletes full tuition or a discounted tuition but pay them a fair wage slightly less than what the pros make (maybe a salary cap for a whole team) seeing these student athletes are the ones who make the Colleges all this money for their Sports teams.  Our Colleges are so caught up in everything being about sports that they go after Coaches like a vulture after its prey. Maybe the NCAA needs to implement a rule where You can't go after Coaches who are in Bowl games until the final game is over and then let them fight it out over who wants who?  In this case where the University of Michigan has offered all this money to Jim Harbaugh, they seem to be putting all their eggs in one basket.  Unless they are 100% sure they can hire him to coach their once elite team , if they do not hire him and I am not sure why He would even want to go back and coach a College team that passed him over before especially with  all the success he has had in the NFL and the opportunities other NFL teams will offer him again. Why would any other top notch proven coach want to be second fiddle to a University who only wanted one person to satisfy their peers and the pressure they caved into? Sad to say, but nowadays Collegiate Sports are what runs most of our Universities decision making processes.