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“Nick Saban (Alabama's football coach) is probably the most underpaid state employee in the US.” A coach that makes 5 million working with athletes that aren’t

• Rebelgecko 7y ago
  There's NFL coaches making twice as much as him while producing significantly worse results. And he's certainly bringing in more than $5 million of revenue and free marketing to the university
  • Ididntdothis 7y ago
    Then he should go to the NFL and hang with the big guys. Is he personally bringing in the millions and the athletes nothing?
    • Rebelgecko 7y ago
      >Is he personally bringing in the millions and the athletes nothing? I agree with the first half of your sentence and not the second. But I would argue that Saban is easily 10x more important to Alabama's success than any single athlete on the team. I think Bama's QB carousel backs up that claim. > Then he should go to the NFL and hang with the big guys. Financially that might be the best move for him, however I don't agree that everyone's main goal in life should be to maximize income. That said, if someone gave me $3 million to do a job I don't like as much as my current one, I'd jump on the opportunity. But if he's already making $5 million, there's diminishing returns.
      • partialrecall 7y ago
        > But I would argue that Saban is easily 10x more important to Alabama's success than any single athlete on the team. Maybe they should pay him 10x more than they pay the students then. What's that work out to? If the students are being compensated with free tuition, 10x that is probably a few hundred thousand dollars, right?