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I don\u2019t often cover the immense fraud of college sportsball, there are so many frauds in higher education that I focus more on things which impact the real students on campus. On the other hand, I do often talk about the immense pay our administrators on campus make, and their luxurious lifestyles, and this guy really is par for the course<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026there\u2019s one particularly impressive home, with a 600-bottle wine cellar, a wraparound shower with massage jets, and a sizeable pool with a waterfall and Jacuzzi overlooking a lake\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

–what is<\/strong> it with these guys and their lakefront property? Perhaps H.P. Lovecraft was on to something…<\/em><\/p>\n

So many admin on campus, they have so little to do individually. What\u2019s this guy\u2019s job?<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026run the Outback Bowl, a second-tier college football postseason game featuring third-place teams\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Aaaand\u2026that\u2019s the entirety of his job. Now, I concede I don\u2019t know exactly what this entails but just how hard can it be? Most of it seems pretty self-correcting, as you have the teams and vendors coming right to you to sign up to show up at the stadium. What kind of money does he get for this one game?<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026$1,045,000 in 2017, according to the bowl\u2019s most recent tax filing\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Take a million off that you have more pay than most faculty in higher ed, even faculty with 25 years\u2019 experience (voice of experience, here) will ever receive. This game is between distant contenders, in a season that\u2019s already over. So, it\u2019s no surprise that the whole bowl generates less than $12,000,000 a year\u2026and a sizeable chunk of it goes to just. This. One. Guy. Man, it must be nice to be at the top\u2014the bowl only has five full-time employees, incidentally.<\/p>\n

The bowl also donates to charity, $500,000 in the last two years. I feel the need to mention the sportsball players themselves get nothing.<\/p>\n

Does the guy have some explanation for why he\u2019s so precious?<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026a new policy forbids Outback Bowl officials from publicly discussing compensation\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Um, this one guy runs the whole show. He had a heavy hand in the policy, if not made it himself. It\u2019s not like I haven\u2019t mentioned before how these guys hold all the cards. It\u2019s no surprise they also take all the pots, too, I suppose.<\/p>\n

Actually, I was wrong when I said the players get nothing. For risking life and limb in an extremely violent game, a game where some 90% of the players, even at the college level, have permanent brain damage from playing it<\/a>, they do get something:<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026each get $550 of souvenir gifts, the maximum allowed under NCAA rules\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Whoop. De. Doo. When you consider just how many hours the players spent practicing for this particular game\u2014recall this is an extra game, not part of the regular season\u2014I\u2019d be surprised if their hourly pay is much past $5 an hour.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the one guy \u201corganizing\u201d the game gets over a million bucks.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s little different on the academic side of campus, where the dean who \u201corganizes\u201d the poorly-paid adjuncts rakes in enough to get her own slice of lakefront property while the students impoverish themselves with future debt.<\/p>\n

The article I\u2019m quoting from has over 500 comments, and one requires clarification:<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026These guys are entrepreneurs. Who is to say how much they are paid?…\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

I suppose this is correct, but he does work for a tax exempt corporation…all taxpayers thereby get to say how much of the free loot goes to him. I still feel there\u2019s a deep iniquity here. That bowl doesn\u2019t generate all that money because of this one guy, it generates it because people find it amusing to watch the players on the field smash into each other and get brain damage\u2026I think the players should get more than a few hundred bucks\u2019 worth of tchotchkes.<\/p>\n

In fact, only a few of the comments seem to \u201cget\u201d that there\u2019s a real disparity here between who\u2019s generating the money and who\u2019s getting the money. I\u2019m clearly in the minority, but I\u2019ll take such comfort as I can in not being alone.<\/p>\n

www.professorconfess.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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