Quote:robkelk wrote:Bah, Chicken feed! Nick Saban of UAB a measely 5.62 million smackers.!Quote:ECSNorway wrote:Quote: The highest paid employee in the entire state is the football coach at UC Berkeley, who got something like $2,100,000.
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*picks up jaw*
A college football coach making more than, to borrow a situation I am intimately familiar with, the president and CEO of a multi-billion-dollar-a-year insurance brokerage?
Somebody really, Really, REALLY, fracking REALLY likes them their footsballs.
(ETA: Not merely 'more than'. We're talking fifteen times as much.)
And five times as much as the President of the United States, according to the US Senate
If I was a Californian, I'd be demanding salary reviews for every person employed by a state-funded college or university.
To everyone living outside the ole' Confederacy and especially to those outside the U.S. You have to remember this Southern truism:
Football..especially southern college football is religion.
The Sunday games are church services.
Bear Bryant is Saint Peter. If anyone doubts me, go see his shrine in UAB Tuscaloosa!
Nick Saban is Saint Paul here in Alabama.
And I dare anyone to challenge the folks around here!
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