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Message: [QUOTE="Hoo's That, post: 4957463, member: 3609"] That "highest paid state employee" stuff is horribly, horribly deceptive. I imagine you're talking about the coach at Buffalo IRT NYS. Nick Saban was "the highest paid state employee in Alabama" because he was paid ~$7MM per year. But when you look at the breakdown, he received only $100K from state funds as a line item in the school's budget (they make him a state employee so the president can fire him if necessary), the remaining $6+MM came from booster money. It's like that at just about every state school, the coach has a state budget line item job so the president can fire him/her and anything over say ~$100K is from booster money. The state budgets are not paying millions for coaches. What's interesting, at some schools it's Med School professors who are the highest compensated, based on their endowed chairs and money they make from research patents, etc. [/QUOTE]