I'll say this about salleries for college football coaches. The proceeds from the ticket sales, sky box rentals, and contracts with food vendors, not to mention apparell sales, far exceeds the collective saleries for the entire coaching staff. One might say that the school would get big reveunues from football programs even without good coaches, but I can tell you, that a great coaching staff fills seats for the school, gets TV money, and has more apparell sales, etc. I'm not sure what a coach is worth, but I know that a good one more than pays for his own sallery plus some. I recall the days when the secondary athletic coaches made substantially less salary than the football coaches. At UGA, the gymnastics team was winning the National Championship several years in a row, yet their coach's salary was about half of the football coach's. Everyone raised stink, and suddenly, the gymnastics coach was making as much as the football coach, even though the football team generated probably more than $40 million dollars more for the school. From that day forward, I stopped caring. Good for the girls. I'm not sexist, and simply look at it differently than the people making the decsions. I am 100% for girls getting scholarships to play sports, and understand some aspects of the decisions for having so many sports teams. However, I know where the money comes from -- football. Now, thanks to Title 9, or whatever that rule is, UGA has more women's varsity sports than men's, yet the ticket sales from football alone, bring in more revenue than all of the other sports combined.
IMHO, $500k too much!!!!
