09-03-2022, 11:04 AM
Dennis S wrote:
Football coaches are almost always the highest-paid state employee in every state.
While that is true (in 2015 is 39 sets the highest paid employee was either the football or basketball coach), the majority of their salary is not from tax money. Coaches are often the same salary scale as any university employee, but then get a huge additional stipend paid by the school's athletic foundation - that money comes from corporate sponsorships, television revenue, and boosters. It is not from tuition or taxes.