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Originally Posted by fullor30
"Top college coaches make millions of dollars each year. Top college officials make, well, let's just say somewhat less than that. Apparently, a fair number of people must think that coaching is at least a little challenging."
Not really. As evidenced by the recent Mack Brown 5,000,000 dollar contract, the mantra is follow the money. Texas football brings in over 80, 000,000 a year to the University. It's about the bucks.
That said, I understand your response to fiasco.
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...and if coaching were easy, you would think that Texas could find a coach (or Ohio State could find a coach) for far less than $5M.....If it were easy, I could do it. I would be happy to save my alma mater money by taking the OSU job for no more than $1.0M.
I am just guessing that these coaches (football and basketball -- Coach K makes some pretty good money as does Thad Matta) MUST be able to do something pretty special to get the money they are paid.
Otherwise, Texas, Ohio State and Duke would not pay the big salaries.