Agreed. Don't fall for the "high school coaches make more than college coaches" bit. High School TEACHERS make the same or more, that's true. But you have to actually perform an entire full time job called TEACHING and then you make a few thousand bucks to coach on top of that.
Contrast that to only having to perform the duties of a coach. Even for less money, that's a much better job in my opinion. And reading the horror stories of teachers on twitter reinforces that.
yes and no. as a high school teacher you aren't spending 20+ hours a week recruiting/official visits/etc. you aren't dealing with scholarships. you aren't traveling nearly every weekend from August through Oct and from Jan through June. you aren't gone for many if any 2-3 day meets. in most states you aren't working through an indoor track season.
college coaching is about 80% administrative/recruiting/traveling/etc and 20% coaching. high school coaching is probably the exact opposite of that; 80% coaching kids and 20% of the other crap.
I don't think this poster knows a single thing about running a successful high school program. No, there's not a lot of traveling or recruiting, but the administrative stuff is ridiculous, and you are planning for a much wider variety of athletes with vastly fewer resources, which takes a LOT of time if you want to be good. Now...back to jobs.