Kansas football assistant coaches will make close to $2.3 million in 2015

[KansDem]

LAWRENCE

After years of shelling out million-dollar contracts to its football coaches for little return, Kansas is taking a limited financial gamble on new head coach David Beaty.

Beaty, who will make a base salary of $800,000 plus incentives, is set to make less than a third of his predecessor, Charlie Weis.

Some of that savings, though, will go toward a staff that will make a combined $2,279,000 in 2015, according to salary information obtained by The Star.

Last season, that number would have ranked sixth among the eight Big 12 schools that are required to disclose the salaries of employees. (TCU and Baylor are private schools and do not have to make salaries public.)

Clint Bowen, the Jayhawks’ assistant head coach and co-defensive coordinator, has signed a three-year contract that will pay him $400,000 annually. Bowen, who served as defensive coordinator under Weis before assuming the role of interim coach, made $325,000 last season.

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The Kansas City Star

Now, what was it about college students graduating with huge debts?

Maybe it's time to cut the salaries of coaches and administrators?

[LittleBlue]

1. Football money doesn't come out of any academic funds

Not only does football pay for itself, it pays for all of the other sports except basketball. If people stop attending, the whole athletic department at a school can fall apart.

These salaries are high because football is so profitable.

[Logical]

2. You are correct! nt

[NaturalHigh]

3. Thanks. You beat me to it.

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. it still seems.like.alot of money

[LittleBlue]

5. It is a lot of money

But the way it works is counter-intuitive. A neglected football team usually means the demise of less popular sports. And during conference realignment periods, it can mean the permanent financial ruin of an athletic department (see UConn)

[woolldog]

6. Not in comparison to how much the football program is probably bringing in. nt

[NaturalHigh]

7. Our assistants at Oklahoma make a lot more than that.

Our head coach pulls in $5 million. They're worth every penny, even in our down years. Our football easily funds the entire athletic department and more. We also get a lot of merchandising revenue that goes directly into the college. It's a good deal for everyone.

[Liberal_in_LA]

9. but the ones doing the real work. the athletes, make.nothing

[Logical]

10. Free college is something! Many other students would love it! Nt

[KingCharlemagne]

13. Why isn't college free for everyone, regardless of whether he or she is a jock? - nt

[KansDem]

28. Good question...

You would think the millions made on college sports could go to make it financially easier for all to attend college, but according to some posters to this thread, money made in the academic programs stays in the academic program.

[KingCharlemagne]

31. Think you meant to write "money made in the athletic programs stays in the athletic

programs." (Perhaps a Freudian slip on your part?

My, there certainly are some vociferous supporters of intercollegiate athletics and the compensation structures that attach in your thread. Of course, not a one of them can answer the question of just WTF intercollegiate athletics are doing at institutions of higher learning (emphasis deliberate).

[KansDem]

33. Yes, you are correct.

Perhaps a Freudian slip on your part?
I sit corrected...

[indie9197]

36. I think the quality of that education may not be the same as for a non-athlete

Fall semesters especially, they can't go to a lot of "normal" classes due to traveling and practice. They are basically doing two full-time jobs at the same time.

[Logical]

37. Many students work 2 jobs. nt

[NaturalHigh]

20. That's a different issue, and certainly one worth discussing.

I think we're finally moving toward that discussion, but I'm not sure there can be meaningful reform with the current bureaucracy in place. The NCAA is useless and, in my personal opinion, corrupt.

[FLPanhandle]

8. Lots of money in the entertainment business

That's basically what football is.

Lots of money in movies and TV shows too.

[pstokely]

26. especially for a basketball school

nt

[KingCharlemagne]

11. Please explain again to me what the fuck football and basketball are doing

at an institution of higher learning in the first place? I mean aside from the obvious explanation of serving as farm clubs to the pros but with workers who don't get paid.

[LittleBlue]

14. Giving scholarships to players who would otherwise be unable to afford college

Giving the students an activity at which to have fun. Giving alumni entertainment. Giving every other student athlete who doesn't play men's basketball or football a chance at a scholarship. It is the bedrock of support for Title IX in collegiate athletics

That is its purpose at a university

[KingCharlemagne]

15. How does intercollegiate athletics mesh with the stated mission of an institution of

higher learning? If intercollegiate athletics were doing all you say it does, then why did Columbia U (in New York) abolish its intercollegiate athletics programs many years ago? Was Columbia U. wrong?

[Algernon Moncrieff]

16. Columbia & UChicago did away with Division 1 competition and athletic scholarships

Were they correct? They did what they felt was right for them. Other schools still believe in the notion of giving scholarships for athletic performance. That may very well change if the kids have to be paid.

[LittleBlue]

19. Virtually the entire Ivy League has intercollegiate sports

Stanford, Cal Berkeley, and Northwestern all have them too. Nothing in these schools' mission statements prohibit athletics. If you really want to play the credentials argument, I've got you beat 10 to 1 on prestigious institutions.


Thousands of underprivileged young people get the chance to study at top universities because of these scholarships, students who wouldn't qualify for academic scholarships because they poured their efforts into athletics. Why do you sounds so eager at the idea of preventing them from accessing their only avenue to higher education? Utterly bizarre arguments you're making. Luckily your arguments are such a radical minority view nobody in power will ever consider them and athletics will be around long after both of us are gone.

[KingCharlemagne]

12. Wouldn't it be interesting to compare the salaries of those jocks\playground supervisors

to the salaries of newly hired assistant profs in, oh, let's say, Physics? You know, to professors with Ph.D.s and probably at least one or more post-doc? Hmm.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

17. If the assistant prof in physics sold millions in tickets and jerseys, s/he'd be paid accordingly

At research universities, professors are paid (directly or indirectly) based on patents they developed in university labs while working at the school -- often with the labor of unpaid/underpaid student researchers. Med school professors are very highly paid.

People aren't paid for what they know; they are paid for the value that they produce.

[KingCharlemagne]

18. It's good to know that the capitalist theory of surplus value has now thoroughly

infiltrated institutions of higher learning.

The myth of the disinterested scholar pursuing knowledge for knowledge's sake alone is finally once and for all demystified upon the pyre of Mammon. Just sorry that it had to happen at a once-venerable institution like the U. of Kansas.

[woolldog]

23. Oh god, shut up you clown.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

34. oh my.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

24. You said it - it's a myth

Perhaps there are a few humanities majors are disinterested scholars pursuing knowledge for knowledge's sake alone. As for the rest - no. Science labs are regularly and frequently sponsored/endowed by companies seeking young minds and fresh research. Engineering firms look to the students as a source of cheap labor to do mundane tasks, as do the legal firms that draw clerks from the pool of law students. For the most part, the students are at the schools to get higher paying work after college -- not simply to learn. The irony: the vast majority of the students who have been drawn to the schools to play a sport will not play that sport professionally after college.

[KingCharlemagne]

32. Don't forget the humble social sciences (history, sociology, anthropology), nor departments

like Mathematics and Philosophy. If only Bill Gates could figure out a way to monetize Sociology . . .

[NaturalHigh]

21. The University of Oklahoma sells out every home game every year.

A sellout is worth approximately $5 million in ticket sales alone. That doesn't even take into account concessions and merchandise. Then there is the money it brings into the local Norman economy.

Coach Bob Stoops makes approximately $5 million per year. If you do some simple arithmetic, he's worth every penny.

[KansDem]

29. But where does the money go?

[NaturalHigh]

30. For starters it funds the entire athletic department.

That amounts to a lot of scholarships.

[KG]

22. slightly off topic - why does charlie weis keep getting hired as a coach?

[ileus]

25. How much will the program make???

Footballs big business. Fielding a good team every year requires a great coaching staff, great seasons generate huge profits for colleges.

[pstokely]

27. but basketball is the bigger business at kU

nt

[JanMichael]

35. It pays to lose in some fields (KU suck in Football). Oh well.

I cannot stand the wasteful practices that have been used to substitute for the lost normal funding. Also the deification of games and those that participate including coaches. I suppose if we just call it entertainment and accept that 98% of the college players will not become NBA players but are a part of the supporting caste just pay them and take that out of the staff pay. Three tiers:

1. Playing to get an education - C

2. Playing to play but probably never goinging pro - B

3. We know you will likely go pro - A

Nah that suck too. I give up.