The Protection of Saint Dogbert
17 December 2009
15 December 2009
Some Texas faculty irked by Brown's $2M raise
Some Texas faculty irked by Brown's $2M raise - from ESPN.com
You know what gets me about articiles like this? It's that you have a group of faculty members that can't see past a headline, consider that has happened to be a tragedy and an attack on academics, and then forget two important facts. First, they not getting past a headline means they never see this line:
Brown's salary is paid with money raised by athletic department revenues.
UT Athletics pays for itself! They're not contributing to the University's budget problems because they pay for themselves. Second, they forget that UT Athletics contributes over $6 million to academic programs. They're taking the money that they made on their own and putting it back into the University. Wouldn't something like that actually help with UT's budget problems? But why point that out? It's easier for a bunch of people with large amounts of eduction but a small amount of common sense to go after the Athletics department and say that it's another example of sports becoming more important than the academic programs in higher education.
This thing probably bugs me so much because we heard it in Tucson non-stop last year. Coach Stoops took UA to a bowl game last year, and was rewarded for it with a raise that put him into the seven-figure range. And, guess what? He had a better season this year, beat USC, tied for second place in the Pac-10, and is taking the team to an even better bowl game this year! He earned the money he's paid. We also hired Sean Miller to be the new Men's Basketball Coach. To lure him away from a very talented program at Xavier, it took some money. Now, just to point out that we didn't just throw money at some scrub of a coach, Xavier went to four NCAA tournaments, in addition to winning three A-10 regular season championships and one conference tournament championship during Miller's tenure of five seasons. The last two years, they made it into the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament, with an Elite Eight appearance in 2008 and Sweet Sixteen appearance in 2009.
My point in bringing up Coach Stoops and Coach Miller...UA Athletics pays for itself! They take NO STATE FUNDS! Their budget is whatever they bring in! So, if an athletics department wants to pay their coaches whatever amount of money they feel they are worth, let them! And, in the mean time, the professors can go back to worrying about academics and let the coaches and AD worry about athletics!
You know what gets me about articiles like this? It's that you have a group of faculty members that can't see past a headline, consider that has happened to be a tragedy and an attack on academics, and then forget two important facts. First, they not getting past a headline means they never see this line:
Brown's salary is paid with money raised by athletic department revenues.
UT Athletics pays for itself! They're not contributing to the University's budget problems because they pay for themselves. Second, they forget that UT Athletics contributes over $6 million to academic programs. They're taking the money that they made on their own and putting it back into the University. Wouldn't something like that actually help with UT's budget problems? But why point that out? It's easier for a bunch of people with large amounts of eduction but a small amount of common sense to go after the Athletics department and say that it's another example of sports becoming more important than the academic programs in higher education.
This thing probably bugs me so much because we heard it in Tucson non-stop last year. Coach Stoops took UA to a bowl game last year, and was rewarded for it with a raise that put him into the seven-figure range. And, guess what? He had a better season this year, beat USC, tied for second place in the Pac-10, and is taking the team to an even better bowl game this year! He earned the money he's paid. We also hired Sean Miller to be the new Men's Basketball Coach. To lure him away from a very talented program at Xavier, it took some money. Now, just to point out that we didn't just throw money at some scrub of a coach, Xavier went to four NCAA tournaments, in addition to winning three A-10 regular season championships and one conference tournament championship during Miller's tenure of five seasons. The last two years, they made it into the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament, with an Elite Eight appearance in 2008 and Sweet Sixteen appearance in 2009.
My point in bringing up Coach Stoops and Coach Miller...UA Athletics pays for itself! They take NO STATE FUNDS! Their budget is whatever they bring in! So, if an athletics department wants to pay their coaches whatever amount of money they feel they are worth, let them! And, in the mean time, the professors can go back to worrying about academics and let the coaches and AD worry about athletics!
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