[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Absolutely out-f***ing-rageous that there are public employees being paid millions of dollars...To do one of the most useless things on earth, coach amateur sports.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Somebody has to entertain the slobs on Saturday

[discostu]

If you want to make money make other people money. Sport is big business. They bring in lots of money, they get paid lots of money.

[wally_bert]

I get weird looks when I bring up these way overpaid parasites.

People wonder why I have contempt for sports.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Opiate of the masses.

[luckystarmom]

Saban and the Alabama football team bring in tons of money to the university, enough to fund wonderful academic scholarships including a full tuition scholarship to my daughter valued at over $100k. I love Nick Saban and the Bama football team! Roll Tide!

[Jolla]

public employees being paid millions of dollars

Pay them the state employee wage and let the alumni pick up the bonus all on the up and up.

[Hot Tabasco]

Absolutely out-f***ing-rageous that there are public employees being paid millions of dollars..

I would agree but now that college sports has become a revenue generating business, the salary justifies the millions of dollars the football team brings in...........

[FirstFlaBn]

Absolutely out-f***ing-rageous that there are public employees being paid millions of dollars...To do one of the most useless things on earth, coach amateur sports.

Maybe some actual facts will help you deal with your hissy fit. At my alma mater, the Athletic Association has made significant cash contributions to the university over the years; many millions of dollars - and that doesn't count financing arenas that are used for non-sports activities like graduation.

Formed soon after WWII, the AA pays all sports expenses out of its own revenues and finances its own capital expenditures. So, coaches are legally state employees (so the univ president has authority) , but get no money from the school.

My guess is just about every state school on that list has a similar arrangement.

I would say one of the most useless things on earth is dumbasses commenting unimpeded by facts.

[TexasGator]

Professional, not amateur ...

[Wm F Buckley Republican]

I don’t have a big problem with this as these public employees earn their keep or they’re gone. A public school teacher will make a fraction of this but they do not have to produce anything.

[Psycho_Runner]

One needs to look beneath the surface. Most of the salaries are actually paid by donors and alumni. Thus the college coach state salary is relatively small compared to the donor and alumni donations.

The other factor is look at how much money the coach brings in. Yes the coach has a direct impact on the income. If the coach is successful, money tends to flow into the college coffers.

College football also supports all the other sports.

[morphing libertarian]

they bring many more millions to the school. They earn their salary,

[Captain Peter Blood]

The States do not pay those salaries, There is a base and the non-profit Athletic Foundations pay the bulk of those monies with funds donated by the Alumni.

[georgiarat]

Coaches salaries such as Saban’s Do not come from state supported funds.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Absolutely out-f***ing-rageous that there are public employees being paid millions of dollars...To do one of the most useless things on earth, coach amateur sports.

There's nothing outrageous about it at all. Those amateur sports that these men coach generate far, far more for their universities than the salaries they are paid. Saban, Calipari, Harbaugh - all of them are actually outstanding investments, unlike most government expenditures.