Professors from across the country have long been lured to Florida’s public colleges and universities, with the educators attracted to the research opportunities, student bodies, and the warm weather.
But for a swath of liberal-leaning professors, many of them holding highly coveted tenured positions, they’ve felt increasingly out of place in the Sunshine State. And some of them are pointing to the conservative administration of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis as the reason for their departures, according to The New York Times.
DeSantis, who was elected to the governorship in 2018 and was easily reelected last fall, has over the course of his tenure worked to put a conservative imprint on a state where moderation was once a driving force in state politics. In recent years, DeSantis has railed against the current process by which tenure is awarded, and with a largely compliant GOP-controlled legislature, he’s imposed conservative education reforms across the state.
Florida > Highest paid public employee: Dan Mullen; University of Florida football coach > Annual salary: $6,070,000 > 2nd highest paid public employee: Willie Taggart; Florida Atlantic University football coach > Annual salary: $5,000,000 > 3rd highest paid public employee: Josh Heupel; University of Central Florida football coach
It’s depressing how common that is.
https://247wallst.com/special-report/2020/09/20/these-are-the-highest-paid-public-employees-in-every-state/
Holy fuck. Almost every state. Red state or blue state, doesn’t matter. Almost always the football coaches. Meanwhile, the person running the booth at the DMV takes home what, $20 an hour maybe?
Haha, about twenty years ago, I was working at a Honda dealership as a lot rat, bringing a used car in for an emissions check; there was a sign at the facility saying they were hiring, for competitive wages. I asked what they were paying, and the tech took a long drag on her cigarette and mumbled, “Minimum.”
So the DMV clerk is probably not even making $20.
college football at that level is revenue-generating; so it’s not really ‘taxpayer money’ that pays those salaries, but rather the income generated from the football program itself (tickets, advertising, licensing, broadcast fees, boosters, etc.). that income also usually subsidizes the school’s sports programs that don’t generate a profit–which is, like all of them, other than mens basketball, and in parts of the country, mens ice hockey.
Not so much.
https://www.bestcolleges.com/news/analysis/2020/11/20/do-college-sports-make-money/
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/analysis-who-is-winning-in-the-high-revenue-world-of-college-sports
Sounds like they should be private employees if it’s so profitable. It’s odd how we polluted our places of learning with sports programs in the states, by all indications, many sports programs deny their athletes a proper education and a proper salary for their money making activities while the coaches make bank.
Probably couldn’t hack it in the NFL.
After all, the NFL players are proffessionals at wearing tights and chasing other guys who wear tights. They know when the Coach is just torturing them with more laps and cult-like sayings.
If it makes you feel better… college football is big business. Schools make shit loads off the broadcast and advertising rights.
(And then shaft the players that attract that dough under some argument if ‘sportsmanship’ or something.)
Shit. For five million, I’d shout random bullshit that sounds inspirational and doodle squiggles on a chalk board!
What could go wrong… it’s just guys in tights chasing other guys in tights…. Right?
Old joke.
PE teacher tells his class that he’s the smartest teacher in the school. Everyone else has to wear nice clothes every day and deal with tough questions. All the coach has to do is show up in sneakers and tell kids to run laps.