[Husker] Women's Coaches Salaries

[gzimmerman at everestkc.net]

This reminds me of the "Mom, everybody else is doing it" excuse.

$400K for the coach of a sport that loses a fair amount of money is, IMO,  wrong. The ridiculous amounts of money spent on college athletics is out of control.

Greg Zimmerman, UNL '75
Overland Park, Kansas

----- Original Message -----
From: Merlin Green <mgreen at nebraska.edu>
Date: Monday, September 29, 2008 7:33 am
Subject: [Husker] Women's Coaches Salaries

> 
> I have been gone all week-end so did not read the list until this 
> morning.
> For the person who stated that Connie Yori is grossly overpaid.
> 
> How about this point.  John Cook is probably the highest paid women's
> volleyball coach in the country, while Connie Yori is not even in 
> the top
> half of the Big 12 in women's basketball salary.
> 
> The Kansas women's basketball coach makes quite a bit more than 
> Coach Yori
> and Connie beats her like a drum.  The Texas coach makes a million 
> a year,
> Coach Yori beat her  last year.
> 
> I would say that Coach Yori is paid about the right amount based 
> on her
> market value.
> 
> Merlin Green
> 327 Nebraska Hall
> University of Nebraska
> Lincoln, NE 68588-0521
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