Editor-In-Chief
AUSTIN, Texas - Mack Brown, the head football coach for the Texas Longhorns, is paid $2.5 million per year. Rick Barnes, the University of Texas basketball coach, is paid $1.9 million. The women's basketball coach, Gail Goestenkors (shown in photo at bottom), is paid $930,000. Horns baseball coach Augie Garrido gets $760,000 annually. In there, at $1.5 million, is Texas Tech head football coach Tommy Tuberville and his $1.5 million paycheck.
Compare that with the salary of the state's highest paid public school superintendent, Carrol "Butch" Thomas of Beaumont, who gets $347,834.
Is it me, or are these salaries at weird play with the state's whopping $27 billion deficit? That deficit has state legislators cutting budgets for everything from public education to public safety. And not a word has surfaced about the salaries of any of these people. But that's Big Time college, and Big Time sports often generate big incomes in bowl games and post season play. Some say the U.T. athletic program pays for itself in game revenues. It does, when the teams win a national championship.
But it's not just college.
Does it take Big Money to make Big Splashes? No.
Consider two of the teams that made to the NCAA's Final Four games: Butler University of Indiana and Virginia Commonwealth U. Neither is said to be Big Time. Last year, Butler spent $10 million on its overall athletics program, with $1.7 million on basketball. VCU's budget was a bit more than $8 million, with $1.3 million going to basketball.
Big Timers Kentucky and UConn spent a whole lot more.
UK's athletics budget, you ask? Try $52.5 million, $6.3 million on basketball.
UConn (University of Connecticut)? $47.4 million, $5.5 million for basketball.
Kansas, a perennial powerhouse in men's basketball, budgeted $40.7 million for athletics, with $4.3 for basketball.
That's a lot of money for seasons that often end in defeat, except for the winner of tonight's championship game between Butler and UConn. Everybody else has gone home after being ousted from the season-ending tournament.
So, you ask yourself: Is the addiction to athletics such that taxpayers must pay huge salaries? Like U.T.'s Mack Brown in Texas, UConn's head coach, Jim Calhoun, is his state's highest-paid employee. He'll get that even if his team loses to upstart Butler.
It's something to think about when one hears Texas wants to cut drastically into the state's public schools fund. These coaches all get paid whether their teams win or lose. Teachers are at risk of losing their jobs when their students do not perform.
For the most part, these coaches do not face that risk. The Texas Longhorn football team had a won-loss record of 5-7 last season. For them, there's always next year...
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43 comments:
another winner. the Trib is on top of everything. Dude, thanks! Beats the hell out of our other blogs. didn't know Chavez in Brownsville was paid that much. You're right, our sports teams suck. LOL!!
Chapaneco is back trashing The Tribune editor. what an idiot. He thinks we care or what? we DON'T, dwarfy!!!
It appears chapaneco has no readers or comments so he again attacks the editor of The Tribune. Pinche chaparro pendejo! No other way to say it. his skull is too freakin' thick. get over it, menso, you lost!
Some blogger under the name kingi canute is asking the rag line blog operator if he is trying to start controversy. I guess that is the only way he gets 4 to 6 comments.
Bloggers, Chapete, doesn't know that Journalist, consider facebook, beneath jouranlism dignity.
Oh, I forgot, Chapete is not a journalist.
He needs, facebook, twitter, his blog, y una cholona pansona to hide under. Porque es correlon.
The former San Benito coach was making around $104.000 dollars. The pressure to win, is horrible.
ALL:...Chapa is just being childish, which is his specialty. He full-well knows I did not create that Facebook site attacking him. But you're right, he must need comments. He's begged for them before. King Canute is correct in challenging him. Chapa is his own worst enemy. He'll never get it. Everytime he attacks, he loses another brain cell. They used to call him a dwarf. Perhaps now he's become a retard... - Editor.
$2.5 million for the Longhorns coach? Wow!!! isn't that what they pay in the pros? Tooooo much, bro
chapaneco is lost. I say we leave him alone. all he can do now is attack the number 1 blog, the Tribune! el numero uno, chaparro! believe it. you're eating dust, dude!
Hey, Paz, if the imbecile isn't a retard he sure acts like one. LOL!!!
If he was looking for sympathy, he sure isn't getting any, some other guy is on his case.
Mr. Editor, he forgets, when he called several people scumbags, pinche viejo, ora si no te gusta p%$%to.
Six comments, in two days, a lost cause. Chapanecno, knows it, remember retarded people don't know better. In his feeble mind, he thinks he is doing great service. Pobre viejo entabacao.
Tom Chavez, does pretty good salary wise, for a local AD. It has to be hard to work in Brownsville, with all the politics.
You're right, chapaneco's blog is on life support. only no one will breathe a damned thing into that nothing blog. No news! Bible verses and press releases, that's all he's got. as they say in his home country, Vale madre el vato! LOL!!!
He is posting, crap again, something about daily hits and stories, Jackal tell him, those are stories they are someone else press releases, vijillo cabesa de tornillo, cara de plantilla. Sigue sonando.
Remember, you have to get dumb when ou go to Chapaneco's blog. three bad lines is a story there. a press release is a story. a Bible verse is a story. everything but a story is a story. Retard!!!
Obama in 2012! No question about it. Republicans don't have anyone to compete. sarah palin? pleeeeeeese.
He thinks he is number one, what a joke, even some of his bloggers mock him, but he is to stupid to realize it.
Es un Chinche, (a tick) y se cre mucho.
Tribune first with photos of the murdered teacher. wow!!! the imbecile Chapaneco is going to go nuts. LOL!!!
But remember what the editor of The Tribe site said. Chapaneco is not a journalist and his blog is not a news blog. the shrimp ius just playing at it. on another Blog chapete was torched for ripping off stories from other news organizations. he's just a copycat kind of guy. Loser!!!
Mr. Editor, the word around the Bingo place in San Beni, last night.
Sonia Perez and the husband were divorced over a year ago.
That guy must of have been crazy, hiring a 18 year old to kill the wife. Interesting, how some lady remarked why her wedding bands were in the purse.
This case is full of intrigue.
As for la chinche mamona, Chapaneco is just trying to get comments, and we agree, it was most likely the Jackal that is doing all of this. Pinches batos locos, ninguno de los dos valen pura Chin#**^da.
Can you believe Champanenco is saying he work for some channel station many years ago. 'De barrendero cabron", because you can't write, you CAN't read,the stuff you write esta de dar risa.
What a failure, y la cholona, pansona, la que el Jakelyn quiere in the back seat, both of you clowns ought to be in comedy.
Champaneco, wrote on a blog, "I work real close with, Grand Central station, channel 4 news."
He meant Valley Central station, Grand central station is in New York. PENDEJO, ajajjajajajajajaja, now he is calling Jerry Deal names. hhahahahahahah!!!!
Help him out Canute, now that Jakelyn has deserted him.
He is a clown. why he stays with that boring blog is the mystery. Where's his wife? Oh, she's at work. Or with Jake in his Ford. LOL!!!
Jakelyn must be crazy, one cop was saying she is one big fat cholona.
They say they look like the number 10, chapete being one 1 and cholona being 0.
"Help him out canutie", Anon, I think sometime back, he banned canutie from his blog. Well, he bans anyone who doesn't agree with him bull shit comments.
I am surprise Canutie is still blogging there.
I know someone there was calling canutie names sometime back.
Chapaneco is an old school Pachuco. he's short and chubby, but he wears starched khakis and sleeveless Vato undershirts. Es el payaso del barrio in his 'hood. LOL!!!!
It's sad enough when you have these idiots that kill their wives in a fit of anger but there is something really low about a guy who has to hire TWO other guys to take out his wife. The only justice is that this kind of coward is going to be looking over his shoulder the rest of his worthless life, no matter where he spends it and someday when his children are old enough to spit in his face, then maybe he will recognize the truth about himself.
Hey, let's come up with a nickname for Chapaneco. How about "El Moco?" asi es el cabron, como on mocoso. LOL!!!
All:...The nickname idea would be fun and a lot of laughs, but it's best if we let Chapa sink in his own crap. He knows he's Number 3 now, and it kills him. No one goes to his dead blog and no one comments; that's his sentence from the jury. "No comments" are the two words he hates the most, even more than "Jake's Ford." Plus that description someone gave here of his wife tells me Chaparro needs to tone down the threats, to us and to Jerry Deal. She has to be a special woman to live with that dumbass, so we won't trash her here. But we think she'd be livid if she knew her husband let another man talk about her being naked in his vehicle. As they say in Chapa's native Mexico, "No tiene verguenza ese maleducado."... - Editor
(Our best guess is that his once-fawning blogger Jake is behind the mess,)
If you don't want me to be posting negative crap about you, you had better lay off me. Final warning.
Jake.
JAKESTER:...All you have to say is that you didn't do it, either. We stand accused and, well, we're innocent. As for you coming after me...do it, just don't get yourself in legal trouble. Bone up on the laws of libel. Here's a clue: make sure you don't defame anyone, cause some people have reputations they do not wish tainted. Better yet, go see a lawyer and get him/her to explain it all to you. I'm not interested in educating you. Well, did you do it? Did you create Chapa's alternative Facebook page. You didn't deny it, not that I really give a damn about Chapa, or about Facebook, or about you... - Editor
Jake has no business here! He's chapaneco material. I say keep him out. Don't need him.
and I thought only Edinburg was nuts. the other side of the valley is just as bad. We had a 39 year old woman prostitute herself to a teenager and she was busted. But a pastor hiring a hitman to kill his wife? that's cold.
There has to be a reason for the murder of taht teacher. The pastor will talk. People always talk and there's always way more to the story. who knows what she did. maybe she had an affair. We don't know enough.
How do I find the alternative Facebook page for Chapa? I found the one that he made, but I would love to see the other one
I think someone already told Chapanenco, that he believes someone else is stoking the fire. Chapnenco knows, nomas que le gusta, otherwise he wouldn't have any comments.
Y quien es el viejo que se llama Juanon joselon Ortegon, is that the loser, that ran for county commissioner and got 50 votes all from his family?? Anda defendiendo al viejo cuerpo de chinche cara de plantilla.
anonymous, you mean someone is having an affair with Chapaneco's Chola wife? hard to make out what you're trying to say with 'stokin' the fires.' Wow! No wonder he's always mad. But if that's not what you mean, well, ignore my comment.
Chino, a woman having an affair is not deserving of the death penalty. If all the men in the RGV who've had extra-marital affairs were executed, there would be nothing but women and children and the occasional priest. The real problem is men who can't let go even after they have moved on to other women. They can't believe that a woman too can move on after having once been theirs. Men need to learn that they don't OWN women.
As for this business about charging people to watch animals being slaughtered, that is really sick. Just when you think civilization has advanced, things like these two instances happen. Well I guess you could also count the presence of Jake as another proof that Neanderthal man still exists. Chapa only counts as half a Neanderthal. Since he has been diagnosed with terminal stupidity, he can't last that much longer and therefore is probably not too much danger to the world going to hell in a handbasket.
Blogger M, Jake is more cro-magnon than neanderthal. He probably chews his food like a dog and has a problem with authority. But i don;'t know the guy. Chapa is definitley prehistoric in his thinking. he cannot write, which was common in the caveman. and He probably was potty trained by some retard tribe. He just shits everywhere. LOL!!!
okay. What's your point?Looking for someone's salary? whose?
Anon, [stoking the fire] between the two blogs. I don't know much about la cholona, I heard she is hefty, or at least that is what a cop was saying at the breakfast rest. the other morning, big old lard ass woman.
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