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Universities will state that they need to pay such huge salaries to bring in talent. Personally, I don’t care what the private colleges pay their presidents and coaches, but I do when it is a government operated school.
College presidents’ salaries go up and enrollment gets cut. I thought the mission was supposed to educate?
The top pay of any government bureaucrat (or in this case, coach or president) should not to be more than the top pay of that government’s CEO (in California’s case, the Governor).
If a university wants to pay a salary above what the governor makes, then let the university find outside money. If a coach is that good, base incentives on the amount that boosters, tickets and TV bring in.
Make the schools become fiscally responsible in hiring their coaches and presidents and base their base salary on a set level, but reward based upon incentives.
If you don’t like this method of controlling government salaries for university presidents and coaches, I’d like to read your plan.