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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 2086046, member: 199"] I am not sure how 'privacy' works with state employees, but I suspect that UConn does not publish any of their employees' salaries and the only information that comes out about them is as a result of public records requests. I don't know that they have a proactive responsibility to publish this information. On coaches salaries, Bags27, I agree - they are obscene, but they are market based. Most top earners are getting paid obscene salaries across all businesses. Specific to college coaches, a sizeable percentage of their 'salary' is for duties outside of the actual coaching and running of the program - appearances at various university promotional events and fund raisers, doing the TV and radio shows, etc. The money is part of their 'salary' as it is guaranteed in the contract whether the events occur or not and may actually be paid by other entities into the university to be passed through to the coaches. And in terms of the accounting - most universities subsidize the athletic departments, so how the coaching salaries are accounted really doesn't matter - it is still coming out of the athletic department, so whether they say it is gate revenue or subsidy is just an accounting nicety. And the value of successful athletic teams is hard to measure, but it does add to both prestige and general fundraising for the schools - UConn basketball, men's and women's has been a huge boon to the school as a whole, both in driving greater investment by the CT government and greatly expanding the donations both for athletics and the school as a whole. [/QUOTE]

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