Posted on 02/03/2015 1:17:09 PM PST by MichCapCon
Newly hired University of Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh will make three times as much money if his football players hit their academic goals than if Harbaugh is named the Big Ten Coach of the Year. MLive did a story on Harbaugh’s contract that states the coach will earn $150,000 if the players hit certain academic bench marks. Harbaugh will get $50,000 if he’s picked as the league’s top coach. The academic bonus is 3 percent of Harbaugh’s $5 million annual salary.
ForTheRecord says: Ann Arbor Public Schools teachers who are evaluated and given the highest rating of “highly effective” receive a $150 bonus, according to district spokeswoman Liz Margolis. The average salary of the Ann Arbor Public Schools teacher was $74,153 in 2012-13, the latest year the state makes data available. That means the bonus for being a highly effective teacher in Ann Arbor public schools is 0.2 percent of the average salary. In Ann Arbor, academic incentives are more valued for a college football coach than the public school teachers.
skewed priorities
College football is big business. If they can pay 5 million a year for a coach, there’s no justification for not paying the players salaries.
I don’t mind the guy making big bucks but I don’t understand why he gets an academic incentive at all. Academic achievement is up to the professors.
The teachers need to coach college level football.
See how easy that is?
Indoctrination centers only pay so much for the average stuff.
Sounds like an incentive for the coach to pressure the players to take a light schedule and pad their schedule with classes like Basic Basket Weaving and not Deferential Calculus.
...the coach will earn $150,000 if the players hit certain academic bench marks. Harbaugh will get $50,000 if he's picked as the league's top coach.So, he'll get the $50K. ;') Far be it for me to defend Quota College, or Jim Harbaugh, but the football program doesn't soak the taxpayer for any of that. OTOH, just doing their jobs, for which they're already paid, could yield public "school" "teachers" an extra $150? Yeah, skewed priorities.
Your pay (worth) is based on how easy you are to replace. So there you go.
The NCAA has incentives for those teams with good academic rates. Namely more SCOLARSHIPS, which equates to better players, which equates to winning more games, which equates to more TV revenues. It’s all about the money folks.
They allow him to populate his team with “students” who would not otherwise have a snowball’s chance in hell of getting into Michigan. This is a way to act like it all isn’t a complete joke, which it is (not to pick on Michigan).
The average school teacher makes $75/yr? I don’t want to hear about the “poor school teachers” anymore.
This article is a great display of flawed, leftwing, “reasoning”. If the teachers can get 100k+ to pay to get into the stadium 7 times a year, and buy lots of food, beverages, and memorabilia, and get the television networks to buy into their venture, then they can make more money. The athletic department at Michigan is not taking money away from academic pursuits. They are taking away spots on campus for legitimate college students, but that’s a trade off for the money generated by the athletic program. This is just a standard hit piece by a liberal who thinks he can better allocate resources than the market.
While the university still considers it important to maintain the farce that these athletes are students as well, make no mistake that they are there for the sole purpose of winning football games. If the coach can get players who can both win and pass remedial English that is just icing on the cake, which is why it is a bonus but not a requirement.
Let’s see one of those teachers fill a 100,000+ football stadium.
If the players had IEPs in high school, they get to take mostly online classes with a “tutor.” Nifty, don’t you think?
Scandalous headline but once we get into the guts there’s really nothing wrong with it. It’s a bonus that’s percentage of salary earned for academic achievement. And he hasn’t gotten any of it yet since it’s a future achievement situation.
College coaches are considered to be big drivers of the academic achievement of their players. And probably rightly so when you start looking at the numbers, there are very clearly coaches that want their players to do well in classes and coaches want their players to stay eligible and nothing more.
Boo-hoo. When people pay $100 to watch professors teach English or Science, then they can get a contract like Harbaugh’s. Until then, they should be thankful they have a job, particularly after taxpayers see the absolute dunces from top tier colleges that Waters interviews on O’Reilly’s show. At least athletes have obviously put forth some effort and are good at what they do, while many students are woefully deficient.
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