I don't understand.
The college presidents determine the salary for the coaches, they hire and fire the coaches.
But the college presidents think that they earn too much?
Since the college presidents are the boss - why don't they simply pay the coaches less?
The college presidents only have themselves to blame - if they don't like what they are doing.
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Subject: [gatornews] [SUN]: College presidents: Coaches earn too much
[Crabbe]
From: Shane Ford <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, October 27, 2009 9:17 am
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College presidents: Coaches earn too much
They oppose changing federal law to rein in the salaries.
By Nathan Crabbe
Gainesville SUN Staff writerPublished: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, October 26, 2009 at 10:33 p.m.University presidents believe football and basketball coaches are overpaid, but oppose changing federal law to rein in those salaries, according to a report released Monday by an athletics watchdog group.To pay for college coaches
College football coaches
- 1. Pete Carroll, USC: $4.4 million
- 2. Charlie Weis, Notre Dame: $4.2 million
- 3. Urban Meyer, Florida: $4 million
- 4. Nick Saban, Alabama: $3.9 million
- 5. Bob Stoops, Oklahoma: $3.8 million
College basketball coaches
- 1. John Calipari, Kentucky: $4 million
- 2. Billy Donovan, Florida: $3.5 million
- 3. Bill Self, Kansas: $3 million
- 4. Thad Matta, Ohio State: $2.5 million
- 5. Rick Pitino, Louisville: $2.25 million
The Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics surveyed 95 of the 120 university presidents with teams in the nation's top-tier Football Bowl Subdivision. While more than 85 percent felt that compensation of college coaches is excessive nationally, less than half supported studying changes that would allow limits on coaching salaries.But participants at the commission's 20th anniversary meeting in Miami discussed other ways to control costs, such as reducing regular-season games and stopping in-town hotel stays for football teams. The report comes as studies show that just a handful of college athletic programs are profitable and expenses are rising much faster than revenue."There's an overwhelming consensus that the environment is ready for change," said Amy Perko, the commission's executive director.The University of Florida's athletic program is one of the handful making a profit. It is also an example of an arm's race in coaching salaries cited in the report. Football coach Urban Meyer, who recently signed a $4 million annual contract, and basketball coach Billy Donovan, who makes an average of $3.5 million a season plus incentives, are among the highest paid in their professions.UF Athletic Director Jeremy Foley, in an interview last month, said those salaries were a reflection of the market for top coaches."In college athletics, coaches are the key component to your success," he said.The Knight Commission is a panel of officials from academics and athletics that seeks reform in college sports. The commission conducted surveys of university presidents and follow-up interviews with a portion of the group. UF President Bernie Machen, who participated in the survey, declined comment.The commission will issue a set of recommendations in the spring. At the group's meeting Monday, participants discussed a proposal from the Division 1-A Athletic Directors Association to control costs.Dutch Baughman, the association's executive director, said most athletic directors at Football Bowl Subdivision schools support changes such as reducing the permissible number of regular-season contests. Another proposal would eliminate off-campus housing before home contests, a common practice for football programs such as the Gators that check into hotels before games to minimize distractions."It's what we're responsible for doing, and we're very serious about that," Baughman said.The commission's report found that presidents were pessimistic about their ability to control costs and questioned the National Collegiate Athletic Association's ability to make reforms. Presidents were skeptical about the political possibility of getting an antitrust exemption to allow limits on salaries.The NCAA's last effort to limit coaching salaries was found to violate antitrust laws. The association ended up paying a $54 million settlement.While Perko said that history complicates the issue, he said there's more support for limiting the number of coaches and athletics administrators."That's where the growth has been in the last five years," she said.Two-thirds of responding presidents supported studying cutting the number of coaches for revenue-producing sports and reducing the number of games for non-revenue producing sports. Most opposed cutting scholarships.Nearly two-thirds of presidents supported changing the distribution of Bowl Championship Series revenue. The survey found a divide among presidents from conferences with automatic bids to BCS bowls, only one-third of whom supported changing revenue distribution, and conferences without automatic bids, 95 percent of whom supported such a change.The winner of the Southeastern Conference, which has been UF in two of the past three years, gets an automatic bid to one of the four BCS bowls. Members of minor conferences, such as the University of Central Florida in Conference USA, must compete with schools from larger conferences for two remaining at-large bids.William "Brit" Kirwan, commission co-chairman and chancellor of the University System of Maryland, said reforms are needed to address financial disparities."Additional revenue isn't going to solve this problem," he said.
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