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http://deadspin.com/infographic-is-your-states-highest-paid-employee-a-co-489635228
Tags: Basketball Coaches, College Athletics, Football Coaches, Higher Education, State Public Employee Salaries
Is your state’s highest-paid employee a coach?
April 16, 2014 at 6:09 am |
Oh my goodness. I just finished writing a post about “Understanding America” and you have to go and make me even crazier. 🙂
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April 16, 2014 at 5:52 pm |
What’s going on is that most state universities are operated as business enterprises.
Their football and basketball teams are their biggest money-makers. So very often are medical schools and research laboratories, which attract federal grants and corporate contracts and license valuable patents. And college presidents are chosen for their fund-raising prowess.
Long gone are the days, which were before my time, when college athletics were a recreation and character-building exercises for the students themselves.
This isn’t 100 percent true, but it is tru often enough to explain the chart.
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April 16, 2014 at 12:48 pm |
The football coach was also the highest paid person at my high school, and our team royally sucked!
To add insult to injury, our principal had a PHD. The football coach taught weight training. He still out earned her.
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