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Ever seen Football coach, and college president salaries?

For state colleges, they're often some of the highest paid employees in the state. [1]

1. https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/28261213/dabo-s...

Then you look at the revenue college football brings in to the rest of the university, the coach salaries looks like a bargain.

Not only that, for most universities college football (some men's basketball) cover all the other men's and women's sports that hemorrhage money.

Coach salaries -would- look like a bargain if revenue correlated with win-loss rate or quite frankly any measurable activity the coaches do. But, they don't.

IMO the guy in big-10 football who deserves a multi million dollar salary is the guy in the mascot fursuit.

> Then you look at the revenue college football brings in to the rest of the university, the coach salaries looks like a bargain.

Now do this analysis while paying student-athletes salaries and tell me if the coaches are bargain.

I, too, can run a sports team profitably if I don't have to pay my players.

The vast majority of coaches don't make this kind of money. I refuse to believe tuition is insanely high because of coaching salaries. I was actually under the (possibly incorrect) assumption that coaches salaries come largely from boosters and things like ticket sales, jersey sales, etc.

Here's some real data for you, in a NY college no less.

President of my undergrad college made $884K last year [1], but a medical school professor made nearly $2M.

1. https://nonprofitlight.com/ny/rochester/university-of-roches...

They're a professor for Orthopedics. Orthopedics is the highest paid specialty and at a university, Professor == Physician.

Point is he's making that money for the hospital for patient services, not because of his teaching.

Medical schools usually have separated funding sources too. Many professors are in fact practicing medicine in their field.

Athletics is normally (always?) a separate self-funding enterprise attached to th e university. Tutition dollars don't pay the coaches; alumni donations/gifts, sponsors, and ticket sales do.

No. Football coaches don’t get salary from tuitions. Athletic department has separated funding sources.

This may be true for some colleges and universities, but certainly isn't universally so.

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