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.
So we use tax dollars to play the lottery? If the teams does well we win! If not oh well, the tax payers are good for it!