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Message: [QUOTE="DefenseBB, post: 3532285, member: 7492"] One of the items that has absolutely left me scratching my head is the "overpay" that many schools, particularly the SEC, are doing. Just 3 years ago in 2016-17, MSU was paying Vic $465K per year. Now, they are paying Nikki McCray $750K per year and she has done what exactly? She was making $240K at ODU. Kellie Jolly Harper was making $240-260K at Mizzou State 2 years ago and now they are paying her $750K. Holly was making $665K. Heck, Georgia decided to pay 1st time coach Joni Taylor $750k. Kentucky pays Matthew Mitchell $1.2 Million. This type of overpay is simply insane. It makes not sense as to rhyme or reason. We know the mid-majors cap out at $200-250K for long established and successful coaches in a sport that loses money. We also know that Adia Barnes at Arizona just made $240K this past year and is now scheduled for $400k in 2020-21. While we noted (and lamented) the PAC-12 only pays an average of $487K, this is double the pay of these mid-major programs. Why is the SEC, ACC, Big12 and BigTen overpaying average coaches? Just because you [B][I]think[/I][/B] have money, doesn't mean you need to spend money. The Covid19 situation is now forcing big time schools to furlough their top salaried employees simply because their "savings account" can't keep paying them. This tells me the system is broken if you haven't accrued enough money "for a rainy day" of 3 months, let alone 2 years. This could be a day of reckoning. UConn is not immune to this and even Geno knows it. How much is he worth to the University as the greatest coach of all time? It matters to the revenue he brings in is the simple hard answer. Same goes for Dawn, Vic, Kim and all the others. Can the school really justify the salaries with hard numbers that don't show a budget in the RED. Louisville obviously can't. Neither can Colorado. Frankly, neither can UConn. The economic model appears to me to be broken. What the heck am I missing that allows these AD's to without logic or reason to overpay for unproven skill sets? Even mighty Texas, overpaid for Vic. Don't give me "ignore his Stephen F Austin results" either, this guy was making $465K three years ago and is now making $2+ million. No logic can explain that to me. At least with Geno, I see attendance, media, regional television programming and National attention. Kim Mulkey doen't have the attendance, no regional tv, some national attention but she's at $1.885 million. Yikes. Walz is a bargain at his $1.475 million and we know he's overpaid. Like I said, if this sport was raking in the dough, making money hand over fist, I would understand it. But it isn't and is still a long way away from making money yet the AD's are like drunken sailors on shore leave. Head bang Rant over... [/QUOTE]

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