College coaches are paid from athletic department funds. At the schools you mentioned, the athletic department funds a ton of other things, including academics.
Actually, when I went to college a university education was still affordable and I was able to work my way through college and graduate without any debt with STEM based degree that actually had value in a competitive work place. It is pity you ignored the crux of my point. That government policies have driven up the cost of higher education, resulting in high student debt and many indebted students graduating with worthless degrees (if they actually graduate). If we were smarter in our higher education policies a college degree would be much more affordable and we would be graduating more students with degrees in areas our economy desperately needs (i.e. STEM based educations). Instead our kids are graduating deep in debt and we face shortages in critical areas. As a side note, Elizabeth Warren was able to amass a huge fortune in academia before joining the House of Representatives in 2013. Remember that next time she wants to magically eliminate $1.5 trillion dollars in student debt on day one of her Presidency.
So a woman who went to college and improved her lot wants to help those behind her accomplish the same? Shocking, I tell you. For shame.
I am simply suggesting we question a politician that promises to solve a problem when they were a big part of creating the problem in the first place. Why is that so difficult a concept to grasp?
Yeah, the athletics and the country club amenities that colleges have now are one reason I'm against free college for everyone. It would be great if paying for the athletics was optional. You may be right about the appeal of going away to college for kids who grow up out in the boondocks. But most of the population lives in metropolitan areas that have a decent public university. Living at home and attending the local school is an economical option to paying for 4 years at a luxury sleepaway camp, but it doesn't seem that popular. A person could avoid a lot of loan debt that way. For those who think college should be free for everyone, what are you willing to give up? I haven't heard anyone volunteer that they would give up big time sports, gourmet food or luxury fitness centers. Nor have I heard any candidate who wants to make college free explain how they would address wasteful, non-education related spending at colleges and universities. How fast are college costs going to rise once taxpayers are paying for all of it? (Answer: Very fast.) Sorry for the off topic rant. What were we talking about?
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Not really. Those schools net $5-10 million a year on the reports I looked up. But those are only include operating expenditures. So they’ll include the guys pushing the broom and changing the light bulbs, but they don’t include capital outlays. And if you’ve got $300-$400 million of athletic infrastructure sitting around (and all of the big ones do), then a schools capital expenditures to simply maintain what they have will consume all of those profits if athletics was a standalone venture. What they can (help) generate are school donations.
I think it is safe to say the highest paid public employee in most states is either a football or basketball coach.
Just today I got to hang out with an old friend from back in high school who had twins in December. She had to start leave around week 33 of pregnancy because, while pregnancy generally sucks ass, pregnancy with twins sucks double ass and she was struggling to breathe. Babies came at week 36, and one had to spend time in the NICU because she was growth restricted and very small. Friend's company's policy is "you get your 12 weeks of FMLA and that is absolutely it," so she's going to have to put her premie twins into daycare at two months, even though doctor's advice was don't even take the babies out of the house for at least three months since their immune systems are so underdeveloped. Also daycare for two two-month-old premies is about $2,200/month. Not even good daycare. Friend asked about their early child education curriculum and they were like "what's a curriculum?" To compare, my husband's brother and his girlfriend had their first a year ago in Austria. Mom got a year of leave, 60% of her salary during that time paid by the government. Since her employer wasn't paying, that had some money and could bring in a temp to cover her work during that time. Those temp positions provide a lot of opportunity for fresh-out-of-college, not-much-experience folks to start getting some career experience. After that year, they had the option of her taking another year, or dad taking a year of leave. They've opted to start daycare and both go back to work. Daycare for them is subsidized by the government and costs five euros per day.....and they're both doctors.
https://mashable.com/2015/01/25/maternity-leave-policy-united-states/ This article, while five years old, helps sum up a lot of issues with the current FMLA policy. I quite like this line:
I mean, if I would have known debts were going to be whipped out, I would have picked a better party school. University of Miami would have been a good experience if I go to go there for free.
I do see a difference between the plans to make State University tuition free and the populist call to pay back student loans. Now people do bring up Germany and how they have free College, but what they conveniently leave out is the German selection process where from a very age, students start to be separated based on sores and talent, and only the best students qualify for free college. The selection does create inequalities among parts of German society, specially with Turkish-Germans that end up in lower tier programs on average.
Not just between ethnic groups either. I have dozens of cousins in Germany and when I go visit I have some that won’t talk to or even be around others because they went to university. They are even starting to differentiate between languages, high and low German.
The USA holds about 4.25% of the world population and 30% of the wealth. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/all-of-the-worlds-wealth-in-one-visualization/
Meanwhile Jaime protects society from taking care of luxuries like clean water, affordable healthcare or free education: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/22/jp-...-says-it-will-lead-to-an-eroding-society.html
It's embarrassing that the U.S. bends its knee to such a weak country. Caving to the Chinese I could see. But Russia? It is entirely incompetent. If it didn't have natural resources, it would have no economy at all. Sad. Terrible.