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Message: [QUOTE="bags27, post: 2085857, member: 6761"] I guess I'm confused. I had thought that Geno's new contract was already a matter of public record and that we had discussed this more than a month ago. I usually like Jacobs a lot and I really, really don't like the high salaries that college coaches get paid. But I don't like the tone of this article even more. It doesn't do the work of finding out exactly how these salaries really are funded. Just says[I]: Taxpayers don't directly pay coaches' salaries. There is a web of program revenue, donors, student fees, etc. Yet the larger truth is the university itself doesn't exist without taxpayers and the coaches are state employees.[/I] I'd like to know for sure if student fees pay coaches' salaries. And what is "etc"? I'd like to know how much beyond the revenue generated by the actual programs pay for coaches salaries. And I think that the taxpayer-state employee connection is somewhat disingenuous, because a whole lot of state employees connected with universities get additional revenue that doesn't get aired: speaker honoraria, book royalties, consulting fees, some patent work (though that tends to be at least split with the university), and especially revenue from medical services. Of course, coaches salaries significantly exceed most of these, but it's still the principle and coaches fall under that principle, and Jacobs is a bit sly with his intimations here. He may have a honest story here, but it seems like sloppy reporting. C+/B- depending on the rewrite. [/QUOTE]

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