[Husker] Women's Coaches Salaries

[gzimmerman at everestkc.net]

My point is that college athletics is out of whack wheher it's $300K for John Cook or $3MM for Bill Self.

Greg Zimmerman, UNL '75
Overland Park, Kansas

----- Original Message -----
From: Nick Chevance <nickchevance at gmail.com>
Date: Monday, September 29, 2008 10:25 am
Subject: Re: [Husker] Women's Coaches Salaries

> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:01 AM,  <gzimmerman at everestkc.net> wrote:
> >
> > $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
> 
> 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
> -- 
> "Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough to
> cover losses due to mismanagement."
> D. Quayle
>