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Article on Overpaid and Underpaid Coaches

CFLCane said:
"Society will not be impacted in any way" America - Let's pay them 5 million a year.
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Obviously, you don’t understand how a coach’s salary is paid. But I get the sense you’re one of those types of people that wants to control other people’s lives and tell them how and where they can spend their money.

Why don’t you come over to the house and go over my budget and you can tell me how to spend my money.
 
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NC_Canes_11 said:
Coaches don’t actually make that in all cash and the state only pays a couple hundred grand of that. Read up on how those salaries are paid out. Endorsement deals, boosters pay some of it, deferred cash, life insurance policies etc.
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Nick Saban could pay each player on his 85 man roster 50,000 a year and it still wouldn't be half his salary.
 
OriginalCanesCanesCanes said:
Bro I don’t mean to be insulting, but these are just some super simplistic proposals you have.

First of all whatever coaches get paid is not a societal problem. Society will not be impacted in anyway - positive or negative in terms of college coaching salaries. It has zero impact. There are a lot of other things that are need to be corrected in society, this just isn’t one of them. I don’t know how you propose “correcting“ this, you must be wanting to have a law passed. Crazy shlt.

Also, who are you to say what amount of money is right? $500,000 sounds like a lot to you, but it really isn’t considering how much time these guys put in.

Some people are smalltime thinkers when it comes to money, Half a million isn’t that much for a coach’s salary, especially not a high-level P5 coach. That’s just some grade school thinking right there.
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As previously stated, I hate contributing to the state schools' programs, but I don't have a problem with coaches getting paid a lot of money as a general principle.

They have a comparatively rare skill, with qualifications developed over a very long time. They job also requires a great deal of time and energy.

Most importantly, those who can do it at a high level are in short supply and in great demand- and their work can generate tens of millions additional for the right university/market.

I just hate to think about a dime of my money supporting UiF or F$U in any way- athletically, educationally, institutionally.
 
OriginalCanesCanesCanes said:
Obviously, you don’t understand how a coach’s salary is paid. But I get the sense you’re one of those types of people that wants to control other people’s lives and tell them how and where they can spend their money.

Why don’t you come over to the house and go over my budget and you can tell me how to spend my money.
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It's a cultural problem not a legislative one. Don't get your panties in a twist. People are free to hero worship coaches and ceo's as much as they want. Throw in a reality TV show host while you're at it.
 
JeddTheFisch said:
As previously stated, I hate contributing to the state schools' programs, but I don't have a problem with coaches getting paid a lot of money as a general principle.

They have a comparatively rare skill, with qualifications developed over a very long time. They job also requires a great deal of time and energy.

Most importantly, those who can do it at a high level are in short supply and in great demand- and their work can generate tens of millions additional for the right university/market.

I just hate to think about a dime of my money supporting UiF or F$U in any way- athletically, educationally, institutionally.
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At the risk of contradiction, I believe the largest portion of these coach‘s salaries are paid by private citizens through athletic associations.

There’s very little chance any state bears the burden for these five, 10, 15, million dollar salaries.

it is correct that our tax dollars go to help football programs like the University of Florida or FSU, but it doesn’t go into the HC’s inflated salaries, it goes into the other coach’s salaries which are significantly less, and other operating facility type expenses.

That’s one of the big differences between private and public schools. The public schools CAN eat at the public tax trough, we’re private schools cannot. But not for the head coach’s salary.
 
OriginalCanesCanesCanes said:
At the risk of contradiction, I believe the largest portion of these coach‘s salaries are paid by private citizens through athletic associations.

There’s very little chance any state bears the burden for these five, 10, 15, million dollar salaries.

it is correct that our tax dollars go to help football programs like the University of Florida or FSU, but it doesn’t go into the HC’s inflated salaries, it goes into the other coach’s salaries which are significantly less, and other operating facility type expenses.

That’s one of the big differences between private and public schools. The public schools CAN eat at the public tax trough, we’re private schools cannot. But not for the head coach’s salary.
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Yeah, I know the boosters and other sources actually pay most of it.

My question is, how specific is the source in their contract? I.e., when push comes to shove, who is obligated to pay that money?

I'd like to read the contract.
 
CFLCane said:
It's a cultural problem not a legislative one. Don't get your panties in a twist. People are free to hero worship coaches and ceo's as much as they want.
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That’s all I’m saying, call it whatever kind of problem you want, but it’s not a public policy problem.

I don’t hero worship anyone, I just believe in the free market.

Successful CEOs or head coaches, or any employee, generally make the salaries that market conditions, and their successes, dictate.
 
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kgranger17 said:
Wait, you mean jump to the NFL like a player?

Too bad, we put restrictions our NCAA football players where they must be 3 years out of high school.

Under my proposed plan (lol), If you get a job with university as a head coach, you must stay there (or suffer a transfer penalty), and only after 3 years of being a college coach may you go to the NFL.


Imagine if we went as totalitarian on the coaches as we do the players.
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No the coaches, if there only making 300k as a head coach y not just go to the nfl and make more there as only a position coach.
 
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