Almost half of Division I athletic departments have higher spending rates on salaries than scholarships... http://www.nola.com/lsu/index.ssf/2013/05/almost_half_of_division_i_athl.html
He was making $550K, but you're right his salary dropped to $450K... Chavis and Krags are at $500K, and Alleva makes $525K.
Chief or Cam might have a higher base that actually comes from the public fund, but Les' is way higher with the privately-funded portions.
Okay, when you break it down like that, you're right...however, if you did that for all the states in the graphic, you'd have to completely redraw it.
Looks like Minnesota struggles with their utter ineptitude in both Basketball and Football. Hockey can't be too far behind.
According to records released this week Coach K is pulling in a bit over 9.25MM per. I believe the number was 9.3. Up until Bielema was hired by Arkansas it was the football coach making the most in Wisconsin. Bielema was at 2.5, their basketball coach is at 2.1MM.
Oh, i see the link now. "they" is "REUBEN FISCHER-BAUM," a young lad from Maine who was on the Yale Comedy Club about 5 years ago it appears: http://www.yale.edu/5humour/reuben.html
Anyway, i do believe NCAA football/basketball coaches are the highest paid public employees in the states that actually care about NCAA football/basketball Per wiki's list of stadiums by capacity Of the biggest stadiums in the world, Michigan is #3, Penn St #4, Tennessee #6, Ohio State #7, Bama #8, Texas #9, LSU is #18, Florida is #21, Auburn is #23, aTm is #28, then the first NFL stadium comes in at #29 So it shows you what a big business NCAA football is, even compared to the NFL But, like ESPN pointed out today, Saban is highly under paid comparing how his $6 million/year is nothing compared to say Drew Brees, who is making $20 million/year or Sean Payton who is making $9 million/year, etc etc etc
