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That's just insane

Don't worry about it....We will be back in the National Title Hunt Next year baby!

No you will not. NO SOUP FOR YOU 'HORNS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hear that parents, you wonder why it cost so much to send your kids to college. Gotta pay the coach, and pay the coach and pay the coach, that's just football, remember they have other sports also.
Don't worry though, they don't pay the teachers squat.

Hey....when teachers start motivating lazy spoiled kids with loads of talent then they can get paid..OHH, What?

Nevermind

Don't some of the rich alumni help foot the bill on Mack's salary? I seem to remember reading about that happening at other schools.

Either way he's helped transform The University of Texas into one of the biggest moneymakers in college sports. He definitely deserves a raise for the product he's put on the field as well as how much he's filled UT's coffers.

Well I know at Cal the alumni pay coach Tedfords salary, all of it. It must be that way in Texas, right?

Dear Hammered_everynight ...
In case you did not know, UT is one of the cheapest (and best) school in the nation.

When you put 80,000 fans in the stands at $60 a ticket, you can warrant a salary like that. Not to mention, when you are ranked first by a mile in merchandising sales...the revenue the football team brings in excedes the tuition of hundreds of students.

http://www.clc.com/clcweb/publishing.nsf/Content/Third+Quarter+Rankings+Ja nuary+1+2007+March+31+2007

As for teacher's salaries, I'd say Texas is doing fine in that department as well, pulling down around 115k a year. -- not bad for 9 months of work, 20 hours a week, plus some office hours.

http://www.purdue.edu/DataDigest/pages/peer_university/peer_faculty_salary .htm

I was taught by TA's most of the time sooo i doubt the prof are putting in 20 hrs worth of class a week...I wish I got 115k for less that 20 hrs of work....

Before you criticize Mack The Knife....look at the geriatrics like Paterno and Bobby Bowden who coach NOT AT ALL..

Student tuition has no bearing on the football coach's salary. Alumni donations. It's why colleges and universities have Presidents to drum up "giving."

When 100,000 people come to watch a Sociology Teacher, teach his/her class then you can talk. When fans of the school start buying gear that the teachers wear, then start talking. I'm so sick of people complaning about teachers salaries. Umm, you knew when you went to college to teach, you didnt get paid anything and people still do it. So, get over it.

His nickname is Mack Daddy Dollars. He probably got a platinum diamond encrusted necklace on under his shirt when he coaches.

Worth every penny! Hook 'em Horns

Most universities do not make money off their football team. Even if football was the only sport, then a few of the top tier programs would actually make a profit at the end of the year, if they went to a BCS bowl.

You have to figure in all the other expenses. Scholarships, room and board for the players, all the asst coaches and support staff, upkeep of the facilities, grounds crew, concessions, security, travel expenses, and on and on. The you have Title IX, that law that says for every mens sport on campus, you have to have equal sports and facilities for the women. I doubt the track, swimming, soccer, and other sports are operating in the black after all the above expenses for each of those.

The big money in football only means that the other sports have less of a negative impact. But, a recent study showed that most every school does not make money at sports.

Here is an older study, but shows a good example of how many programs are losing money.

http://www.ncaa.org/releases/miscellaneous/1996/1996111901ms.htm

Well obviously if the schools would stop spoiling the **** out of the football teams, they might make a buck or 2 when things are done. By the way, college professors bank, its the public school teachers who dont make sqat.