The most underpaid in America: college football coaches!

Remember this post from some time ago, which included this graphic?

I wonder how academic salaries with compare with the compensation for football coaches at the University of Oregon, given the following report in the newspaper, today, about the assistants:

 The UO football team’s nine assistant coaches each received a $40,000 raise as of July 1, bringing their guaranteed salaries for 2012 to a combined $2,759,500. That’s a 15 percent raise over what the assistants were slated to make this year, before signing amended contracts in June.

Aren't we glad that we have the welfare of football coaches way up in the priorities!

So, how much do they get?  Am so glad you asked:

Yes, please go ahead and sympathize with them for the ridiculously low compensation!  Because, this is nothing compared to how much the head coach earns :)

Meanwhile, apparently there aren't enough fabulous facilities for football at the university.  Which is why it is important that you keep buying Nike shoes--so that its founder, Phil Knight, can continue to "play" ball the way he likes:

Massive concrete pillars to hold together the $68 million operations center that Nike’s Phil Knight is building for the University of Oregon football program are shooting up next to Autzen Stadium.

The new center will feature two skybridge-linked buildings — on the north and east sides of the Casanova Center — that will rise six stories on top of underground parking. ...

Football coaches will have a private hot tub and steam room, each with a waterproofed video center, next to their locker room, so they can watch games while taking a soak.

Yes, it is extremely urgent that the millionaire coaches are able to watch games while soaking in the hot tub.  We wouldn't want it any other way.  No, sir!

What, you disgusted with this?  Come on!

On the top floor will be a 2,285-square-foot players lounge and deck, the blueprints show. On a lower floor will be an industrial-sized kitchen, 150-seat dining hall and a 50-seat private dining room.

“The cafeteria is for all student athletes,” said Craig Pintens, a UO athletics spokesman. “We’re extremely excited about that. It’s going to help our entire Athletic Department.”

The football players will have 124 climate controlled lockers, each equipped with an iPod dock and charging station. The showers will feature custom shampoo holders painted UO green.

So, now do you feel nauseated enough?  Look away from the screen before you barf.

Do you ever wonder what a horrible life awaits the coaches after they retire?  Poor chaps, right?  I mean, think, for instance, about the plight of former UO football coach, Mike Bellotti--the guy is walking the streets begging for money, as I blogged a while ago. 

Only in America can we ever have a situation where a football team is affiliated with a university!

Can anybody do anything at all about this?  Nah!  Nothing ever.  Definitely do not look for the radical lefty faculty to raise any tough questions--they are some of the most ardent fans of college football and basketball :(

No, I am not an ideological lefty.  Radical, yes, much to the displeasure of those left-leaning faculty too :)