Did Carbone get paid under the table or something cause that salary makes no sense.

Me having a screen name has at zero to do with it. I don't make controversial post and then hide behind it. Many know exactly who I am. Besides I would never post people salaries especially those of support staff. If it makes you feel better to say I posted them by quoting you then whatever. I still think it was tacky.

Actually posting the support staff shows how under valued these people are, the young ones and those who have made OHIO a carre are way under valued, especially when you consider most of them have advanced degrees. Then take the size of staff and compare to our peer institutions.

Yeah, you know I love you GC but I don't think posting public records is anything to be called out for. State employees are largely funded by our taxes, and I'm glad we live in a land where there is transparency for what these dollars are spent on.

It appears that the chart that was cut and pasted in it's entirety from a wordpress article that I found in a continuing discussion of what Andrew brought up about remembering that Russ' salary wasn't huge, caused some very strong feelings and perhaps hurt to some members of the department staff. That was the last thing on my mind when I posted it and for any hurt I caused, I am truly sorry. We all make mistakes and that was a bad one.

As for taking the time to look up every individual, I did not do that and am a bit offended by the poster who says I did. To be honest, it gets a little old knowing that your posts are going to be blasted for who you are not what you say. I like this site because there are generally good discussions on a variety of topics in addition to OU sports. I don't agree with some of the things posted on here and have had my mind changed by other postings. That's what intelligent discourse is all about and unfortunately it is lacking in our world today - just look at the so called "political campaigns."

Anyway, I deleted the whole file of 2011 - 2012 salaries and I hope whomever I offended or made mad in the department will except this as an apology from the heart.

Good call! Just did it!

No Monroe, it is not. However, in this case the revelation of publicly available information (what Russ makes) combined with information that had no relevance to the discussion at hand, resulted in the unnecessary release of public personal information. Had we been discussing salaries in athletics in general, then perhaps such information would be important to the discussion. In this case it was not and the full file should not have been copied and pasted into the posting window.

This not an issue. I usually agreed with GC, but in this case I don't. Working for a public university or for a government entity makes your salary a matter of public record. I lived with this understanding for more than 30 years. There were times that I wished various folks in the general public or in other parts of the University not know what I made, but that was something I had to accept since I was feeding at the public trough.

Buckeye Institute was created for the proponents of SB5 to show how much public employees were making as a way to win support for bringing them down. Once that fight was over the site quickly lost interest in keeping their own data current

They seem to keep up with public school teacher data still, which makes sense because it was the basis of their argument. The college information has always been lackluster, but it's still a good general overview. Most numbers haven't changed a ton from what is listed.

Double edged sword and I've seen it from both sides.

FOIA has been used as a weapon by and for certain societal and business interests because there are few limits on its use.

It isn't that public officials are reluctant to comply with the spirit of the Act but that compliance can be an extremely tedious and expensive task when (see above).

There's a Seinfeld episode where George is dating a girl who would be out of his league if she didn't have an extremely large nose. After she makes a comment that NYC has so many beautiful women that its kind of intimidating Kramer says to her "you're as pretty as they are, you just need a nose job".

Kramer calls out the issue that everyone knows, it's literally as clear as the nose on her face, but nobody says it because they are afraid of offending her.

Posting the salaries of employees on a message board might be excused the way Kramer sees it by saying that its out there, we all know it, and his intentions were good not bad, but others may see it like George, Elaine and Jerry did as being unnecessary and in poor taste. In this instance I am in the George/Elaine/Jerry camp.