Roy Takes The Calhoun Questions, Sans Yelling

Last week, UCONN coach Jim Calhoun made national headlines with his outburst to a question about his salary. A reporter in Chapel Hill posed the same question to Roy Williams. Rob Gunst has the story.

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[slick222]

These socialist morons have no idea how wealth is created. Roy Williams is probably underpaid. Poeple should never apologize for how much they make unless they've made it by gaming the system with lobbyists and legislation.

[CaponeVS]

To ask Roy Williams this question is utterly ridiculous. I'm a KU fan and i KNOW he was underpaid at KU...he is underpaid at UNC. Say what you will about Roy, financially-wise he is not a greedy person at all.

[mikenjennifer2410]

Roy is a outstanding coach!!!



[Cr8dleofFilth]

The free market is not about capping salaries. Its about making what you can based upon what someone is willing to pay you for your efforts. How many people would like a limit on what they are allowed to earn?

On top of that, MUCH of the athletic department budget (salaries, equipment, building renovations/constructions, scholarships, etc) come from PRIVATE booster donations. Anyone that thinks tax dollars are used to fund college athletics has not done their homework.

[Mentacow82]

For 125,000.00 you can hire me as the head basketball coach and I bet you the gross monies will be about negative 12 million dollars a year. the extra amount of money brought in because the program calhoun built is much much greater than the salaries of his and his staff combined. It's about one of the only profitable aspects of a college. All the other departments is what the taxpayer is on the hook for

[coffeeandciagar]

You couldn't possibly be any more wrong. Do us all a favor and look at an athletic department budget. Until then, this conversation is over, because I'm not going to argue with someone who clearly has no clue what they're talking about.

[alltvisanimated]

The gross monies that are generated (12 Million a year) is the return on the investment made by the tax payers with tax payer money in care of the UCONN Athletic Department. A head coaches paycheck is nothing more than another bill, basic overhead no different than paying the heat and the light bill, its all overhead. These bloated saleries are squandered tax dollars funneled to greedy scumbags ripping the taxpayers off. The head coach salery should be capped at $125,000.

[coffeeandciagar]

Congratulations, you can use Google and quote salaries. Bet your mommy's proud. Unfortunately, you didn't address the part that, again, these coaches do not get paid out of taxpayers' funds, but rather out of the money they make for their athletics departments. This is true everywhere.

[alltvisanimated]

Coach Jim Calhoun is the states highest paid employee with a salary of $1.62 million in 2008.

According to the state Comptrollers office, UConn coaches round out the top three list followed only by their colleagues at the University of Connecticut Health Center and UConns President Michael Hogan.

UConn football coach Randy Edsall was the second highest paid at $1.38 million and Womens Basketball Coach Geno Auriemma followed at $1.31 million.

[coffeeandciagar]

Coaches AREN'T taxpayer paid. To state so is to be every bit as ignorant as Krayeske. And it probably also indicates that you've never been to college.

Coaches are paid by their athletic departments, for whom they make TONS of money if it's a successful program. FAR more than what they get paid themselves.

If you want to direct your ire at rich private citizens, direct it at those who clearly aren't worth their market value. Those are easy enough to point out. Look at Wall Street for starters.