[Husker] Pelini's Contract

[Steve Reichenbach]

This is still the tail wagging the dog.  In which other departments
at UNL are employees getting $125K/year salary incentives for the
academic success of their students?  An outstanding math or chem
teacher?  If academics is the dog and football is the tail, which
is the real priority?  In this, it's football.

(Care to compare the budgets for athletics and engineering or the
salary costs for football and physics?  I think I don't really want
to know.)


>   Thursday's World Herald had an article stating Pelini could get $250,000 in bonuses if certain academic criteria were met.
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>   $125,000 if graduation rate is same or above general student population. Also some of the money is based on the Academic Performance rating that the NCAA uses to determine progress to graduation.
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>   I absolutely agree with Perlman's statement. "You want a contract that fairly compensates the coach and signal what's important to the university," Chancellor Harvey Perlman said Thursday. "If you're going to put incentives in for winning, then you should balance those with incentives for academic performance." 
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>   Maybe this is a start to the end of the tail wagging the dog.