Lane Kiffin's Salary @ USC

[Dr. Cheese]

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/footbal...n=ncaaf,241372

Wow.

[blendermassacre]

I should dust off my old highschool playbook and start coaching... damn

[Gard]

Originally Posted by Dr. Cheese

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/footbal...n=ncaaf,241372

Wow.

Insane.

The dude will never earn what he's being paid, but what does he care, right?

[MJ5150]

That explains why he bolted UT.

-Mike

[5StringBlues]

Cool,now he can get that 60 inch plasma TV for his shoe closet.

[Gard]

Originally Posted by MJ5150

That explains why he bolted UT.

-Mike

That and he sucked as a coach.

[MJ5150]

Originally Posted by Gard

That and he sucked as a coach.

Again, we agree.

At USC, he'll be having kids begging to come play there instead of having to fight Miles, Saban, Spurrier, Meyer, etc for the good players.

-Mike

[Gard]

Originally Posted by MJ5150

Again, we agree.

At USC, he'll be having kids begging to come play there instead of having to fight Miles, Saban, Spurrier, Meyer, etc for the good players.

-Mike

Until the program falls apart and they all bail for UCLA!

[macaroni tony]

anyone else think Lane Kiffin looks astonishingly like Daniel Tosh?

and Josh McDaniels?

[etoncrow]

freaking obscene....what the hell is tha matter with this country?

[mike_v_s]

Originally Posted by etoncrow

freaking obscene....what the hell is tha matter with this country?

I imagine he's being paid according to how much revenue they believe he can help generate.

Mike

[ubado]

Originally Posted by Dr. Cheese

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/footbal...n=ncaaf,241372

Wow.

Not very surprising. Multi-million dollar contracts are pretty common in the top programs of the NCAA (football & basketball). Look at John Calipari, the UK B-ball coach ... if he did end up going to the Bulls ... it would be about a 2.5 million dollar pay-cut each year.

[MJ5150]

Originally Posted by etoncrow

freaking obscene....what the hell is tha matter with this country?

Nothing wrong. Pay is based on revenue generated by the program.

If you generated several million dollars of revenue at your job, you'd get a paid a lot more too.

-Mike

[etoncrow]

Actually what I do is design buildings that save energy, keep people comfortable, safe and healthy. Lane Kiffen teaches kids how to throw an air filled rubber orb to one another. Overly simplified but you get my point. He could not generate millions in revenue if there was not something grossly wrong with the system.

edit: do not get me wrong I am a major fan of football. But my father, a mining engineer, spent his life in a hole thousands of feet below the earth so people could make steel. He got paid an honest wage for his labor. Believe me it was not close to six figures a year let alone seven. Can you see the difference?

[MatticusMania]

Originally Posted by etoncrow

Actually what I do is design buildings that save energy, keep people comfortable, safe and healthy. Lane Kiffen teaches kids how to throw an air filled rubber orb to one another. Overly simplified but you get my point. He could not generate millions in revenue if there was not something grossly wrong with the system.

edit: do not get me wrong I am a major fan of football. But my father, a mining engineer, spent his life in a hole thousands of feet below the earth so people could make steel. He got paid an honest wage for his labor. Can you see the difference?

The part thats wrong with the system is that we value 'entertainment' over actual hard work. When its easy to become a millionaire overnight, because an executive deems you marketible, you have to become kind of discouraged with the way things really are. That marketible person can rake the executive millions in a short time span. The man who cooks his food cannot.

[MJ5150]

Originally Posted by etoncrow

Can you see the difference?

I can.

-Mike

[mike_v_s]

Originally Posted by etoncrow

Actually what I do is design buildings that save energy, keep people comfortable, safe and healthy. Lane Kiffen teaches kids how to throw an air filled rubber orb to one another. Overly simplified but you get my point. He could not generate millions in revenue if there was not something grossly wrong with the system.

edit: do not get me wrong I am a major fan of football. But my father, a mining engineer, spent his life in a hole thousands of feet below the earth so people could make steel. He got paid an honest wage for his labor. Believe me it was not close to six figures a year let alone seven. Can you see the difference?

This is a reflection of what people are willing to pay for entertainment. If people were willing to pay $100 to watch you design buildings, you'd get paid millions, as well. As it sits, however, neither your job nor mine appeal to that many people.

Coaches/players are paid what they are paid for the same reason some music acts are.

Mike

[Dr. Cheese]

Originally Posted by ubado

Not very surprising. Multi-million dollar contracts are pretty common in the top programs of the NCAA (football & basketball). Look at John Calipari, the UK B-ball coach ... if he did end up going to the Bulls ... it would be about a 2.5 million dollar pay-cut each year.

The problem is that Kiffin has yet to prove he is any good as head coach. He did next to nothing at Oakland and Tennessee.

[GregC]

Based on its performance last year, USC seems to have trimmed its perks for players in the wake of the Reggie Bush case. So they have more money to spend on unproven coaches.

[ubado]

Originally Posted by Dr. Cheese

The problem is that Kiffin has yet to prove he is any good as head coach. He did next to nothing at Oakland and Tennessee.

Oh ... it's a problem. Unless you're writing the checks ... it's not a problem.