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Sunday, February 20, 2011
Football coaches bonuses tied to non-academics
Politicians in schools (i.e., hypocrites and liars).
The recently executed Fisher contract is what I call a Jumbo Bonus – not for graduation rates but for wins. The base salary is $225,000. The bonus incentives total $800,000. But only $25,000 of that bonus is a reward for high graduation rates. And more insightfully, the success threshold is a 75% graduation rate. Many coaches have earnestly stated they are fundamentalists – they fundamentally view themselves as teachers of young men first. Football is merely the vehicle. Yet they are paid mostly for wins, and oh by the way, “you’ll get an extra $25,000 if you let one out of every four of your players flunk out”. Saliently, the bulk of the bonus is what is most important to the employer. Jimbo gets $50,000 – twice the amount of the graduation incentive – for winning the division title of his conference, the ACC. If Jimbo then beats the opposing division champion within the ACC, he receives another $50,000. If he reaches the national championship game, he gets $125,000. And if he wins the national championship, he receives yet another $125,000. There are other non-graduation rate bonus incentives, but when I add it all up and try to make sense of it, I am left with a question: If I was the coach, would I prioritize graduation rates and risk winning, knowing I would also risk losing 97% of my bonus? Would I volunteer to have my students athletes practice less and study more if it cost me over $700,000?
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