LSU Board approves raise for track coach Dennis Shaver - $370,000 per yr guaranteed + opportunity for $260,000 more

God Bless you wrote:

By lumping an entire race with an assumption, that is by default racism. Regardless of what race it is, that is racism. Your level of incompetence is mind boggling. I voted Libertarian, not Republican, but your behavior is not palatable. You make everything political, and you can't just partake in conversation on this board without bringing politics into it.

You must be a real pill for people to deal with at dinner tables. I imagine you're the guy who makes it on those youtube videos for berating people that are Republican. You can't tolerate those who think differently from you.

0/10. Get off of wanting to apply racism to white people. That's how white people want to try to define racism. You can't have racism against the non-dominant race. You can be mean to them -- which is fair, I was more or less a little mean to you and your sensitive white guy feelings.

Look to the point of this thread, the right wing folks swooped in on me to call me a Dem or an SJW or whatever instead of engaging in any real conversation. My initial comment was that I think that's a lot of money. We're talking about running coaches at public universities. There are a lot of good coaches out there doing it on a volunteer basis or for next to nothing. That clearly doesn't need to happen at a lot of places. I didn't think that was a super radical line of thinking. I think T&F (any sport for that matter) & higher ed would be a lot better off giving 4 or 5 people full-time jobs with full-time benefits instead of one guy a boatload of money. If you disagree let's here it but don't just give me libertarian stuff saying if the market dictates it then that guy should make a boatload of money. The market works for those that have money already. Nobody needs to be making $300k with bonuses to 1/2 million at a public university. How can you not see a flaw in that?

NERunner053 wrote:

mwh wrote:

who knew minimum wage was such a radical concept

Lol -- I seem to have triggered some older white guys. That's a lot of money. You know that. Higher ed has plenty of issues in how much administrators and coaches can make. I'm not going to apologize for saying it's a problem. If you don't like it, I don't know what to tell you but your way of thinking is starting to lose steam in today's political climate.

"older white guy"

are you a young black guy?

he wasn't brought back despite getting several women to qualify for Preliminaries last spring. their new guy seems to be pretty strong though so i'm sure they won't miss a beat.

Looky Here wrote:

That's a lot of money.

It’s ridiculous what some college coaches and administrators get paid.

The cost of a university education is out of touch and these kinds of examples of track coaches (non revenue sport) getting paid exorbitant salaries and bonuses is just plain wrong.

Examples like this is a slap in the face to those families barely scrapping enough money together to send their children to college. Someone pays for this crap and ultimately it is in tuition and taxes.

Ridiculous wrote:

Someone pays for this crap and ultimately it is in tuition and taxes.

Except it has already been explained in this thread that LSU's athletic department is fully self-supporting and does not use any tuition or tax money.

I’m sure LSU is bringing in a big pile of cash from football ticket sales and TV revenue. Without all of that football money I doubt they could spend that much money on non-revenue sports.

What happens if they decide to start paying the football and basketball players salaries? Would there be that much money left over to spend on the non-revenue sports?

your political climate is the problem us hard working folk have a problem with. I not saying you don't work hard, but many people that live in America don't..

- America is capitalist and greedy, yet half of the population is subsidized

-half the population is subsidized, yet they think they are victims

-they think they are victims, yet their representatives run the government

- their representatives run the government, yet they keep getting poorer

- they keep getting poorer, yet THEY HAVE THINGS THAT PEOPLE IN OTHER COUNTRIES ONLY DREAM ABOUT

seems we constantly hear about how social security is going to run out of money. but we never hear about welfare or Louisiana purchase cards running out of money. interesting to me is that the first group " WORKED FOR" their money, but the second didn't

am I missing something?

buckstar wrote:

your political climate is the problem us hard working folk have a problem with. I not saying you don't work hard, but many people that live in America don't..

- America is capitalist and greedy, yet half of the population is subsidized

-half the population is subsidized, yet they think they are victims

-they think they are victims, yet their representatives run the government

- their representatives run the government, yet they keep getting poorer

- they keep getting poorer, yet THEY HAVE THINGS THAT PEOPLE IN OTHER COUNTRIES ONLY DREAM ABOUT

seems we constantly hear about how social security is going to run out of money. but we never hear about welfare or Louisiana purchase cards running out of money. interesting to me is that the first group " WORKED FOR" their money, but the second didn't

am I missing something?

Yes, you missed everything. But you are likely retarded so that's expected.

Please explain how buckstar is “retarded”. That should be offensive to a liberal