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yessirking said:
@TheOriginalCane - are you saying that state coaches are paid with federal funds? I thought a coaches salary at a public state school came out of the state budget and that money was raised by state taxes.

Could be totally wrong but since it sounds like you know your tax info, Im open to learning.
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You've got to be kidding.

"The state budget"? Do you honestly believe that the Alabama legislature approves Saban's salary every year?

And where do you think that university revenue comes from? For a "state" school like Alabama, some comes from the state legislature, some comes from the tuition paid by students' parents, and some comes from THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. The federal government provides one of the biggest revenue items for universities these days, in the form of RESEARCH FUNDING. There's also Pell Grants, student loans, and a host of other grants that the federal government makes towards higher education.

Once a university is sitting on top of a pile of money, it hires people and approves salaries. Also, as I pointed out in an earlier post, there have been efforts in certain states to limit the salaries of employees at state universities, which can be circumvented by paying head football and head basketball coaches split salaries (if a head coach is limited, by law, to a million-dollar salary, than any additional amount is paid by the booster club, a shoe company, and/or a media company).

Money is fungible. Nobody is saying that "federal funds pay football coaches". But if you cut off all federal funding, then maybe, just maybe, crappy schools like Alabama wouldn't have enough money to blow on football coaches.
 
bamacane06 said:
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Are you disputing the various rankings in which Alabama usually falls at or near the bottom?

Feel free to make whatever argument you need about how Alabama is better than those rankings, but Alabama has been near the bottom of poverty and/or education rankings for decades.
 
yessirking said:
@TheOriginalCane - are you saying that state coaches are paid with federal funds? I thought a coaches salary at a public state school came out of the state budget and that money was raised by state taxes.

Could be totally wrong but since it sounds like you know your tax info, Im open to learning.
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This is approaching IC rules insane on how many time this has been explained on here. Head coaches at state schools are the highest paid state employees, but no tax payers aren’t paying all 8 million of Saban’s salary. They are probably paying $250,000 to maybe $600,000. Boosters and endorsements, deferred cash, life insurance policies, those random fees students pay etc. make up the overwhelming majority of their contracts.
 
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NC_Canes_11 said:
This is approaching IC rules insane on how many time this has been explained on here. Head coaches at state schools are the highest paid state employees, but no tax payers aren’t paying all 8 million of Saban’s salary. They are probably paying $250,000 to maybe $600,000. Boosters and endorsements, deferred cash, life insurance policies etc. make up the overwhelming majority of their contracts.
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Yessir.
 
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TheOriginalCane said:
Are you disputing the various rankings in which Alabama usually falls at or near the bottom?

Feel free to make whatever argument you need about how Alabama is better than those rankings, but Alabama has been near the bottom of poverty and/or education rankings for decades.
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I said Ok.
 
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Ajcane8 said:
A little, I guess. At least I went with straight, tangible facts to disparage your backwards state. Didn’t even mention the virulent racism and rampant cousin-***king. You should’ve thanked me.
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I'm not here to argue with anyone on this board.
 
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No overly successful human being or institution gets that way by being morally and ethically correct 100% of the time.
 
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