[NU Sports] USA Today articles

[Mike Nolan]

> You might be right --I raised the issue about the highest paid California 
> state employee and figured it was Dorrell , but  I kept hearing about a separate 
> budget ,blah blah blah--I wonder if the Feds can do the same--hard to think of 
> a booster program in the same vein for the service academies, but maybe it 
> exists--and also wonder if these guys get federal pensions -As taxpayers , would 
>  we want  Knight  to be getting a federal pension ???

The usual way state schools get around that is by paying a salary in the
$250K-$300K range, which will still put them towards the top of the 
published salary list for the school, with the rest of the compensation 
coming from 3rd parties, including boosters (usually through a foundation), 
shoe contracts, media contracts, summer clinics, etc.  

However, I think Mack Brown at Texas has a a guaranteed number (around 
$2 million), and there was some talk at the time that Texas was trying to 
get a share of the money from Nike, etc. by having those payments come to 
the University and then the coach gets most of it.  

I don't know if the service academy coaches get lucrative 3rd party deals,
though.  

I think the maximum salaries being tied to the President's salary may only
apply to executive branch employees, and then not always.  (I know a few 
civilian doctors working at VA hospitals, I'm pretty sure a couple of
them make more than the President does, but still less than they'd make in 
private practice.)
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Mike Nolan