This isn't just a Wyoming problem....
IOWA
I simply cannot understand with the economy so messed up how the state of Iowa can pay Kirk Ferentz, football coach at the University of Iowa, $3.8 million a year.
High unemployment, cost of food, gas for cars, utility bills, doctor visits for sick kids — how can that ridiculous salary be paid to anyone for coaching a football team?
Our governor, Terry Branstad, gets paid $130,000. I really think someone running a state should be worth more than a state school football coach. Branstad’s salary is in line, and Ferentz’s salary should be even less than Branstad’s.
http://globegazette.com/news/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/coach-s-salary-is-ridiculous-editor-s-inbox/article_bdc5d0f2-10ed-11e1-847e-001cc4c03286.html
NEVADA
It may be that I am alone in my outrage over the handling of the UNR coaching flap. It seems the previous coach couldn’t motivate the team to perform beyond their inherent skill level, so he was fired with two years left on his contract, worth 600K. This amount was paid as a condition of his leaving.
Now UNR has hired a highly qualified coach for half a million a year to whip the squad into shape.
With all the hand-wringing these last years about the sad state of Nevada education and lack of monies to improve same, how can this wanton spending be justified? To call this spending like a drunken sailor is to give drunken sailors a bad name. Meanwhile the yearly costs for mere academic students continue to rise.
http://www.rgj.com/story/opinion/readers/2015/04/05/can-high-coach-salaries-justified-letter/70846498/
SOUTH CAROLINA
The newspaper recently listed the multi-million-dollar annual salaries for college coaches in the United States.
When compared with the annual incomes of police officers, firefighters, EMTs and so many other occupations, the coaches’ incomes seem obscene. This points to the skewed values of our society.
http://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/opinion/readers/2015/10/15/letter-coaches-salaries-reflect-skewed-values/74005840/
TOLEDO
In regard to the Sept. 20 letter, “University leaders not paid enough,” I believe a university president should be paid more than its football coach.
The definition of a university is an “institution of higher education.”
Nowhere is it mentioned in dictionaries that its objective is to promote quasi-professional sports.
The president of UT merits a substantial salary as the leader of this prestigious school. I seriously question the need for the football coach to have such an inflated salary.
http://www.toledoblade.com/Letters-to-the-Editor/2016/09/26/University-leaders-underpaid.html
SYRACUSE
I was sickened when I read the salaries awarded to Jim Boeheim and several other of Syracuse University's coaches and athletic director.
Has the university, and the coaches, themselves, forgotten that the purposes of a university are to provide students with opportunities to learn in preparation for future careers, and for the faculty to do world-class research?
http://www.syracuse.com/opinion/index.ssf/2015/06/syracuse_university_coach_jim_boeheim_salary_sickening_your_letters.html
Those were all from just Page 1 of a simple Google search for "coaches salaries letter to editor." I'm sure there are more, but there are better things to focus my attention on than this drivel.
