Posted on 05/27/2017 4:56:27 AM PDT by blam
I don’t recall that football coaches were hired to ‘like’ people. Fox is starting to screw up their football too. Buh bye.
WAR EAGLE !
Thomas Henderson was right about Bradshaw. He couldn’t spell “cat” if you spotted him the C and the A.
“The entire manner in which professionalized college sports is conducted is shameful.”
Agreed. The amount of money spent on college sports is ridiculous. Wonder how much of current tuitions is due to spending on athletic programs?
Yep! Just the appropriate difference in the value of teaching "football" vs. teaching "communism"...
You're not very bright are you?
If Nick Saban becomes known as the best college football coach ever, it will be because he earned the title away from Alabama football coach Paul 'Bear' Bryant who was coach at Alabama when there were no Black football players on the Alabama football team what-so-ever.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL; Crimson Tide Pioneer Is Often Overlooked
Alabama does football well, regardless of race.
Stick your condensing attitude up your butt, you little prick!
agreed, what POS
This is from 2016 before Saban's raise to $11+ million.
Nick Saban is the highest-paid public employee in America: Here are numbers 2-10
The old adage "you get what you pay for" certainly is true when it comes to University of Alabama football coach Nick Saban.
Alabama football generated a record-breaking $95 million in revenue in the 2015 national championship season with a profit of almost $47 million. That's a pretty good return even if you factor in the almost $7 million per year Saban is paid to coach the Crimson Tide.
What people often forget, however, is that Saban is a public employee, just like someone who works at the Department of Motor Vehicles or the Alabama Forestry Department. Those DMV workers aren't paid like a coach, of course. In fact, according to a ranking by 24/7 Wall Street, Saban isn't just the highest-paid public employee in Alabama, he's the highest-paid public employee in America.
The ranking lists the highest-paid public employee in each state and coaches dominate the list.
Here's a look at the 10 highest-paid public employees in the country, ranked by total earnings. And below is a list of the highest-paid public employees with coaches left out. For the record, only 11 of the 50 people making the list of highest-paid employees in each state wasn't a coach.
Highest paid public employee in each state:
1.Nick Saban, University of Alabama football coach, Alabama - $7.09 million
2.Jim Harbaugh, University of Michigan football coach, Michigan - $7 million
3.John Calipari, University of Kentucky basketball coach, Kentucky - $6.88 million
4.Urban Meyer, Ohio State University football coach, Ohio - $5.86 million
5.Bob Stoops, University of Oklahoma football coach, Oklahoma - $5.86 million
6.Charlie Strong, University of Texas football coach, Texas - $5.16 million
7.Jimbo Fisher, Florida State University football coach, Florida - $5.15 million
8.Sean Miller, University of Arizona basketball coach, Arizona - $4.95 million
9.Bill Self, Kansas University basketball coach, Kansas - $4.94 million
10.James Franklin, Penn State University football coach, Pennsylvania - $4.4 million
(snip)
Saban is no doubt one of the greatest college football coaches of all time. Alabama football is probably the biggest money generator in the state, so I guess he earns it. He does come across as an arrogant jerk on TV though, although I’ve heard he is very friendly, persuasive and honest in his recruiting visits.
Have you ever listened to the inane questions that reporters ask him? I don’t think it is arrogance, but annoyance.
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