21 Teachers, Unincentivized
From The Red and the Black, the University of Georgia student newspaper:
[Coach Mark] Richt’s [2.4 million dollar] contract is now worth about 21 teachers a year, without incentives.
…[W]ith all the talk of academic rigor and the possibility of a tuition raise, what message does this send about academic priority on campus?
As a sports fan, I’m used to coaches getting paid millions. As a University student, I can’t swallow the new request for academic rigor with the disparity in salaries. This University must recruit faculty like the Athletic Association recruits coaches.
I know the University and the Athletic Association are two different entities which operate with two different budgets. However, it doesn’t seem to me, with a $16 million salary being distributed to a football coach over the next eight years, that we’re drumming up a lot of donations for academic rigor.
Glenn Orman, Sports Writer, University of Georgia
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