Absolutely no employee of any public college or university should be paid more than the president of the university. A college coach’s success is almost totally dependent on how good he/she is at kissing eighteen year old high school athletes asses—period. The X and O’s are easy.
If universities were restricted to head coach salary caps equal to or less than the president’s salary Saban and his ilk would still take numbers for the jobs because they couldn’ earn as much anywhere else. Coaching football isn’t that difficult. Operating on the very fringes of NCAA regs without getting caught when you cross the line—now that is the difficult part.
Contrary to what the NCAA says college sports is not about education. How many reports have you seen revealing the fate of the kids that didn’t turn pro and left the college with no degree or a degree in unemployment? I don’t recall any. There are uncounted thousands of them that received little or no additional earning power for their time spent on the university athletic rosters. But the Sabans are paid annually more than the professors can earn in an entire career yet it is all about education.$
What are you doing on this forum? Every word you type has “jealous liberal” written all over it in your reply to this threads subject.
The employee is worth every dime he can get the school to pay him, that is simply the free market at work.
If the X and O’s are so easy, why is Alabama the best College football program in the nation? Not only are they the best, it is by a fairly large amount. That is indicative of the coach.
You have a complete list of how much or max pay on everyone? I’m interested to read it. How about teachers, firemen, cops, ... they are overpaid in my opinion but the deserve as much as they can get someone to pay them.
Yep! Just the appropriate difference in the value of teaching "football" vs. teaching "communism"...