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Message: [QUOTE="hjoerring, post: 2014885, member: 3630"] Salaries are always, in the final analysis, arbitrary- until someone put forth an accepted offer. Thus making the latter a rough guideline. In pre-capitalist/merchant formations Mr. or Mrs. A exchange one commodity for another- milk for butter (C - C)- value is based on need. At the juncture where Mr. A demands butter and a pot of rice for his bottle of milk we have entered into some primitive form of valoriation/capitalism, where things take on additional values other than need. And therefore the possibility for accumulation. Having said this, I'm at a loss to see why capitalism has anything to do with the coach's salary. Nor do I accept the view mentioned in passing that a neurosurgeon (and other so equally situated) should make more. The logic of that might lead us to demand that unemployed Duke/harvard/ND students should be offered higher unemployment benefits because ........ While I have some issues with salaries, I think we must see them in broader light of valoriation. What have been the value for Uconn after the WBB and MBB programs got established. I'm sure some business students on this Board can calculate it. The rhetoric has always been there, but no one in the Conn legisl has been willing to provide the resources and monies that it would require to create the same value that would make Uconn equal to Yale. Geno and his group have given Uconn a visibility both nationally and internationally that no other entity within the University has matched. If we do not like this them our critique should be about the role of sports in fighting for students and even relevancy. For Europe, this assoc between sports and the Univ, as it exists in the States, is unfathomable. [/QUOTE]

Verification: First name of men's bb coach

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