“He who brings in most of the money gets to keep most of it”. Remember that the coach is not paid out of public funds like all of the others on the graph.
It’s a myth that sports programs bring in lots of money. It’s true for a very few universities, but sports porgrams are *expensive*! At my university, when money got tight, the athletics was the first thing to get cut.
Also, as a mathematician, it really isn’t fair to use median salaries for one group and mean salaries for the other–it really distorts the differences…
So what is it? Average, median or mean? Apparently, none of these were statistics professors.
Richard – Not all professors are paid from public funds, but I also find it hard to believe that coaches don’t get *any* public money in their salaries.
Old Geezer – average and mean are the same thing. 🙂
I was speaking primarily of coachs in the Southeastern Conference. They are paid the bulk of their salaries by the atheletic association and the successful ones have nice product endorsement deals and TV shows. And yeah, football brings in a lot of money, the minimum is about six million for Vandy and upwards of sixteen million for Florida, Alabama, LSU and Georgia.
This is a travesty! Why aren’t football coaches paid more, dammit? No seriously.
They are in the entertainment industry. And as such, you need to compare them to other entertainers. When you compare them to movie stars, they are a bargain.
I’m tired of hearing people complain about sports figures making their millions but never hearing about how actors make even more than them for less work. A prime NFL QB will make 10 million dollars for the year. A prime hollywood actor will make 20 million dollars for 3 months of “work” plus residuals. An athlete at least has to maintain a hardcore regimen throughout the year. And actor shows up, acts the same way they do in all the films they’ve ever been in (a la Jim Carrey & Nicolas Cage) and still make a killing.
So yeah, I will agree that they are all overpaid, but until people start bitching about how much movie stars make, I don’t want to hear about how much sports figures make.
Im seeing a correlation between actors and their unwavering devotion to the Democrat party.
Entertainment rules!!! . . . whether sports or otherwise (movies/concerts etc.. . ) and the masses have to pay for it dearly for it . . . one way or another. . . like through services. Remember in gladiator times only the ‘elite’ or ‘nobleman’ had the chance to see them –and- with the way prices are going in support of these events it would take the ‘elite’ to afford it, oh well . . . history repeats itself.
When was the last time 50,000 people paid big money to watch a university academic at work? Therein lies the difference.
Private High Schools are developing some of the same wage scale non conformity.
It is not unusual for Coaches to make 3 times the salary of the most experienced teachers.
you mean to say that “research” thing is crap 😛
Its sad, but the cretin masses in this country esteem entertainment over education and knowledge. That’s not exactly a surprise given who was president most of the last 8 years, but its still sad.
“He who brings in most of the money gets to keep most of it”. Remember that the coach is not paid out of public funds like all of the others on the graph.
It’s a myth that sports programs bring in lots of money. It’s true for a very few universities, but sports porgrams are *expensive*! At my university, when money got tight, the athletics was the first thing to get cut.
Also, as a mathematician, it really isn’t fair to use median salaries for one group and mean salaries for the other–it really distorts the differences…
So what is it? Average, median or mean? Apparently, none of these were statistics professors.
Richard – Not all professors are paid from public funds, but I also find it hard to believe that coaches don’t get *any* public money in their salaries.
Old Geezer – average and mean are the same thing. 🙂
I was speaking primarily of coachs in the Southeastern Conference. They are paid the bulk of their salaries by the atheletic association and the successful ones have nice product endorsement deals and TV shows. And yeah, football brings in a lot of money, the minimum is about six million for Vandy and upwards of sixteen million for Florida, Alabama, LSU and Georgia.
This is a travesty! Why aren’t football coaches paid more, dammit? No seriously.
They are in the entertainment industry. And as such, you need to compare them to other entertainers. When you compare them to movie stars, they are a bargain.
I’m tired of hearing people complain about sports figures making their millions but never hearing about how actors make even more than them for less work. A prime NFL QB will make 10 million dollars for the year. A prime hollywood actor will make 20 million dollars for 3 months of “work” plus residuals. An athlete at least has to maintain a hardcore regimen throughout the year. And actor shows up, acts the same way they do in all the films they’ve ever been in (a la Jim Carrey & Nicolas Cage) and still make a killing.
So yeah, I will agree that they are all overpaid, but until people start bitching about how much movie stars make, I don’t want to hear about how much sports figures make.
Im seeing a correlation between actors and their unwavering devotion to the Democrat party.
Entertainment rules!!! . . . whether sports or otherwise (movies/concerts etc.. . ) and the masses have to pay for it dearly for it . . . one way or another. . . like through services. Remember in gladiator times only the ‘elite’ or ‘nobleman’ had the chance to see them –and- with the way prices are going in support of these events it would take the ‘elite’ to afford it, oh well . . . history repeats itself.
When was the last time 50,000 people paid big money to watch a university academic at work? Therein lies the difference.
Private High Schools are developing some of the same wage scale non conformity.
It is not unusual for Coaches to make 3 times the salary of the most experienced teachers.
you mean to say that “research” thing is crap 😛
Its sad, but the cretin masses in this country esteem entertainment over education and knowledge. That’s not exactly a surprise given who was president most of the last 8 years, but its still sad.