A painfully stupid chart. If you want to make money, make somebody else money. Yes coaches tend to be the highest paid state “employee” (mostly paid by boosters), because they bring money in. It’s simple math, the Michigamn football program hauled in $82 million last year, and now Jim is going to get $5 million of that. If you brought $82 million into your state you’d probably be highest paid “employee” too.
Your source acknowledges that coaches are not paid with public funds and goes on to argue that their salaries are “inflated” and “not fair”. The football program at major universities not only pays for football, but also supports many other sports mandated by Title IX. Of course, these aren’t men’s sports, supporting them would be “unfair”.
Major college football generates millions for the coaches, the schools, the TV industry, concessions, sports gear, etc., etc. Only one group of people are getting screwed by all of this and it isn’t the taxpayer, it’s the players.