I had Reserve duty in Newport, RI, one time. One of the officers with me was on the police force in Anchorage, Alaska. It was pretty obvious he was originally from Boston. He said he felt colder in Boston during the winter than he did in Anchorage. He said, "Make no mistake about it, it's cold in Anchorage; it's 10 below zero outside. But I felt it much more in Boston."
What does "proponent of global warming" mean?
I would hope that a booster who has the resources to finance a trip for the football team would also contribute handsomely to academic programs at Ann Arbor. If not, shame on him or her.
This was mentioned on air too, and longtimefan covered the response. His bigger picture argument was more pointed at coaches' salaries. Donors and boosters don't make these guys the highest paid state employees. That is still a measure of state expenditures. Saban gets $9 million a year from the Alabama taxpayers. Harbaugh gets what, $8 million? The governor of most states only make in the $150,000 range. I think they said the highest paid state employee in 38 of the 50 states is a football or men's basketball coach. Actually NY isn't one of them.
You're right, TV money does. Here is an item on Les Miles' salary while he was at LSU. He got $300,000 from the state of Louisiana. The rest of his salary came from the athletic department's SEC TV money. Here is an item on Saban. It says his salary is $245, 000, I'm willing to bet the only part of his price tag paid by the taxpayers of Alabama, and a "talent fee" of $6.48 MM, that's paid by the athletic department. IIRC, Bronco Mendenhall (and Daisy Fuente at VPI) is paid $100,000 from state money and the rest of the salary is from the athletic department funds. The coaches are paid a lot. They are not necessarily the highest paid state employees as much as they are the highest compensated state employees when all the non-state sources are added in to their state salary.
This really isn't my fight, but even $250,000-$300,000 is the highest paid. As for the rest being made up by athletic department, well that budget is created to cover these salaries and that too is supplemented by taxpayer money. Yes I understand there are plenty of other funding streams, but anything takes their salary on the state bill higher, and is money that at a minimum could instead have been used for a non-revenue sport scholarship. Just thoughts.
Understood and agreed. Could Saban or others not survive with $100,000 less from the state? Let the state put that to a full or two partials in a women's sport. Wouldn't that even help with Title IX? That's not even considering an academic or financial need scholarship, or the state appropriating that money to a study to say, clean drinking water in Flint, or address flooding in Alabama.
That's our standard derogatory nickname for him.I see what you did there. And I like it.
We've been using it here for eons as well. At a local high school graduation the program listed destinations for graduating seniors. The list included both VA Tech & VPI.That's our standard derogatory nickname for him.
We all have the right to do what is legal. Doesn't defend us from being criticized for doing what is morally questionable.
I would argue that what I learned through sports and being part of a team was every bit as valuable as what I learned in a classroom.
Certainly a debatable point.
At the least, the opportunity is there to get a real education.
