[GeronL]

skewed priorities

[Hugin]

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.

[dforest]

The teachers need to coach college level football.

See how easy that is?

Indoctrination centers only pay so much for the average stuff.

[thefactor]

Your pay (worth) is based on how easy you are to replace. So there you go.

[goodwithagun]

So he's getting a bonus for his players doing what they're supposed to do? What's his bonus if they flush and wash their hands after making pee pee?

[Blood of Tyrants]

The average school teacher makes $75/yr? I don’t want to hear about the “poor school teachers” anymore.

[cdcdawg]

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.

[Bratch]

Let’s see one of those teachers fill a 100,000+ football stadium.

[discostu]

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.

[txrefugee]

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.

[Redbob]

Harbaugh’s outsized salary is paid for by the proceeds of, and is a reward for, a successful football program.

Ann Arbor public school teachers’ pay is very likely an accurate reflection of their success in giving their students the ability to think critically and without a leftist bias...

[Dr. Thorne]

He's worth it. None of the teachers could do what he does. It's called "what the market will bear".

Those who don't like this should crawl to Obama and lick his Marxist hand.