[Husker] Women's Coaches Salaries

[Nick Chevance]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:01 AM,  <gzimmerman at everestkc.net> wrote:
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> $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.
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> Greg Zimmerman, UNL '75
> Overland Park, Kansas

While I agree that's a lot of money, and I'd love to earn that much
myself, I'd agree with that sentiment more if the primary goal of the
program was to make money.  Sure, it would be nice, but I think most
people realize that most women's sports aren't going to make tons of
money.  I think they know that when they hire a women's coach.  Is
there a self-sustaining women's basketball program anywhere in the
country?  Connecticut maybe?

While it would be great that all programs raised enough money to
support themselves, it just doesn't happen that way.  Most of our
men's programs don't support themselves.  So the question is, do we
use salaries and facilities to attract the best student athletes and
coaches just so they can be self supporting?  Or because the students,
parents, alumni, fans and taxpayers get the best bang for their bucks
- an entertaining sport and student athletes who are good students and
will take their experiences on to the next level and benefit the rest
of us.  We're lucky that we have a football program that makes money
and supports the other programs.  If football suddenly stopped making
money, would we still support most of the programs?  I would certainly
hope so.

Now, paying a coach who under performs year after year (why does the
name Collier come to mind????) top salary in the conference seems
silly.  But paying coaches the going rate - equivalent with other
positions elsewhere in the conference and in the country - seems to
make good business sense.  That's the way you compete, the way you
entice the best athletes, and the way you add just a bit to the
revenue stream.

Nick
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