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42. My Understanding is

Reply to Liberal1975 (Reply #35)

Fri May 10, 2013, 11:50 AM

May 2013

that a lot of these colleges athletic departments are entirely self funded. So the odds are, even though the coach is technically a "public employee", tax dollars do not pay their salary. If your school has a successful football or basketball program, it probably funds all of the other sports at the college. Donations usually help pay for facilities, but I don't know what percentage of tax dollars supplement those costs.

I work at a State University where the football coach is probably the one on the chart. I'm not saying that it's right, but that's pretty much the way it is and it won't change. But I know that when our team was ranked very high several years ago, the applications for admission went through the roof and the business owners in this town love football weekends. It brings a huge amount of money into town.

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Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. [View all] DonRedwood May 2013 OP

That is really sad. nt babylonsister May 2013 #1

I want a new law.... DonRedwood May 2013 #4

We need that for corps too bl968 May 2013 #64

Interesting that the governor is not the highest-paid public employee Art_from_Ark May 2013 #2

Obama Runs A Business a Million Times More Important Than Disney. . . ProfessorGAC May 2013 #9

Except for the part where the United States of America is not a business, but a nation Bluenorthwest May 2013 #10

Thank you! GoCubsGo May 2013 #58

Bush was paid too much. Anyway, ex-prez makes mega bucks in speeches, board directorships, etc. Bernardo de La Paz May 2013 #50

Presidents--good ones and lousy ones--get it on the back end. MADem May 2013 #51

Well yes, but Bush can teach them cui bono May 2013 #63

... and paint. As long as the painting doesn't have to be good. eom Blanks May 2013 #74

His talent and his IQ seem to both be at about the same level.... DonRedwood May 2013 #87

Yes he has the worlds first negative IQ. eom Blanks May 2013 #93

Is our children learning? He doesn't care! nt MADem May 2013 #76

I wonder what Jimmy Carter's net worth is.......... lastlib May 2013 #85

Carter has made a fortune, but I'll wager he hasn't made it for himself. MADem May 2013 #101

A business exists solely to make money. A government exists to govern a populace. LanternWaste May 2013 #59

Now a days, business exist to make money and government exists to make sure they do. RC May 2013 #66

The government is not a business Doctor_J May 2013 #80

Crazy Marrah_G May 2013 #3

I have always thought our Texan obsession with High School football out of proportion and still do arely staircase May 2013 #5

Well, it is not just texas from the looks of it! DonRedwood May 2013 #8

*groan* krispos42 May 2013 #6

+1000 n/t lumberjack_jeff May 2013 #7

Oregon pays the university football coach more than anyone when there is not even Bluenorthwest May 2013 #11

It's Nike owner Phil Knight's play thing. ErikJ May 2013 #14

One thing left off the map: It's coaches for MALE teams. nt Honeycombe8 May 2013 #12

Except for Connecticut. Brickbat May 2013 #21

But he's also a man -n/t ArtiChoke May 2013 #38

It's Geno Auriemma? Jennicut May 2013 #110

A rather relevant omission... LanternWaste May 2013 #60

So? Travis_0004 May 2013 #103

Of course you have no problem with it, TRAVIS. You LIKE the patriarchal society. Honeycombe8 May 2013 #111

Whats your solution? Travis_0004 May 2013 #112

The trouble is DFW May 2013 #13

Sad that a basketball coach makes more than a NASA scientist. Spitfire of ATJ May 2013 #15

we should be paying the people who make a better mankind more than a person DonRedwood May 2013 #28

Priorities of the elite,....use The Games to keep the people distracted.... Spitfire of ATJ May 2013 #44

+1 pam4water May 2013 #89

which state runs NASA? tomtharp May 2013 #83

One would think Florida would be producing some real rocket scientists. Spitfire of ATJ May 2013 #84

I Love Sports Liberal_Dog May 2013 #16

Certainly that characterizes the "circenses" part BadgerKid May 2013 #17

Holy. Fucking. Shit. Gidney N Cloyd May 2013 #18

Football = legal battery. Training our future wife beaters. L0oniX May 2013 #19

That's...well... not the most logical of arguments. DonRedwood May 2013 #32

I don't like your generalizaton. CRK7376 May 2013 #39

What does it train women to do? snooper2 May 2013 #43

About as valid as and truthful as "marching bands-- training kids how to be single for the rest of t LanternWaste May 2013 #61

I'm sure OJ would agree with you. n/t L0oniX May 2013 #69

Wow. you come up with one ex-football player who was also an ex-actor cali May 2013 #71

Yea ...I tend to piss off assholes. L0oniX May 2013 #72

No its not Travis_0004 May 2013 #104

Pathetic attempt to reframe. L0oniX May 2013 #113

Somehow I doubt you have much insight as to the problems young nonathletic boys face . . . radicalliberal May 2013 #82

I really wish that had been around when I was in high school. Occulus May 2013 #88

I've got tears in my eyes as I write this. radicalliberal May 2013 #94

I was one of those kids. NYC_SKP May 2013 #96

Needless to say, so was I. radicalliberal May 2013 #107

USA USA USA progressoid May 2013 #20

Rick Perry likes! Iris May 2013 #22

I get foamed up about this regularly upi402 May 2013 #23

That's beautiful. malthaussen May 2013 #24

78,000 plus benefits for a football coach in a small town near where i live madrchsod May 2013 #25

Wow... I wonder what a regular teacher makes there DonRedwood May 2013 #27

Add to this taxpayers money that goes to stadiums question everything May 2013 #26

We are Marching band parents CRK7376 May 2013 #40

Those are professional teams. WCGreen May 2013 #79

I don't believe CA and NY. tridim May 2013 #29

PUBLIC empolyees. DonRedwood May 2013 #30

Got it. nt tridim May 2013 #31

Wow and its not even cops or fireman. Thats huge...here in NY. Historic NY May 2013 #97

Panem et Circenses! Turborama May 2013 #33

The athletic directors at several of my area high schools... bobclark86 May 2013 #34

Our eldest son CRK7376 May 2013 #41

I love that image... kimmylavin May 2013 #48

I have to say Liberal1975 May 2013 #35

My Understanding is ccjlld May 2013 #42

An article in USA today,2 days ago Purplehazed May 2013 #49

Thanks! ccjlld May 2013 #54

Shows an egregious bias against hockey. hack89 May 2013 #36

at least it is represented... Blue_Tires May 2013 #46

I knew I should have paid more attention in PE liberal N proud May 2013 #37

Living in Oklahoma I am not surprised in the least. nt avebury May 2013 #45

Ditto. GoCubsGo May 2013 #55

But sports institutionalize "otherness" and without "otherness" indoctrination, rich ppl can't valerief May 2013 #47

Time to outlaw football. RoccoR5955 May 2013 #52

I almost didn't open this thread. I'm glad I did, in a train-wreckish kind of way... nt MADem May 2013 #53

Awesome line in there: Robb May 2013 #56

My state is college president. ZombieHorde May 2013 #57

As a Texan, I'm outraged... about the hockey thing Bucky May 2013 #62

when you have an anti-female jock society where men call the shots and intellect isn't valued librechik May 2013 #65

+10 RC May 2013 #68

OH, that is just disgusting. Zoeisright May 2013 #67

YEP. Rex May 2013 #70

You do realize college sports are usually profitable, right? Travis_0004 May 2013 #105

PROFITABLE? DonB May 2013 #109

It is a sad commentary about our education system. Rex May 2013 #116

Slight of Hand? Martak Sarno May 2013 #73

You say "respite", I say "distraction" Tom Ripley May 2013 #114

Only ONE hockey coach? The shame!!! Myrina May 2013 #75

Wonderful Bullwinkle episode about this back in the 1960s mucifer May 2013 #77

The football and basketball programs bring in millions of dollars of income from WCGreen May 2013 #78

Hockey coach?! Dammit Canada! Lookitwhatyadid! n/t Inkfreak May 2013 #81

Our priorities are so out of whack. smirkymonkey May 2013 #86

So lays out our sad priorities. n/t pam4water May 2013 #90

I'll probably get flamed but... Jasana May 2013 #91

I don't see anything wrong with this though (I'm not a sport fan). The free market ... JackN415 May 2013 #92

Massachusetts is 'blue' again! FailureToCommunicate May 2013 #95

I have no hope. I see no future. n/t Hotler May 2013 #98

You realize these sports are profitable, right? Travis_0004 May 2013 #106

Those pesky rape victims keep getting in the way of the program! radicalliberal May 2013 #108

The coaches are overpaid and the players are underpaid. jakefrep May 2013 #99

+1000 Tom Ripley May 2013 #115

it might just come down to the notion that winning Football or Basketball teams are thought to bring Douglas Carpenter May 2013 #100

In Oregon I'm sure the big college coaches are paid well davidpdx May 2013 #102