Is your state’s highest-paid employee a coach?

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Tags: Basketball Coaches, College Athletics, Football Coaches, Higher Education, State Public Employee Salaries

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3 Responses to “Is your state’s highest-paid employee a coach?”

Notes To Ponder Says:
April 16, 2014 at 6:09 am | Reply
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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- philebersole Says:
  April 16, 2014 at 5:52 pm | Reply
  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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Holden Says:
April 16, 2014 at 12:48 pm | Reply
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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