This is a weird way to fight a stupid battle.

Yea,,, right!!  Sure he would.

I am a prof, and was a full time graduate student who worked for my doctoral adviser. I can tell you that he would not have felt any obligation to clean up after i got into a bar fight, or come down to a local drinking establishment at 3 am to discuss my situation with police. Certainly the University would not have expected him to do that. 

A coach on the other hand IS expected to monitor and act on the behavior of the student athletes, on behalf of the university.

I am certainly not against profs -- my comment was prompted by a long thread on this board describing the controversy over athletic budgets, and coaches pay vs prof pay. Sorry I didnt make that connection clear.  

then there is the demand that influences the pay -- apparently there are fewer people with the skill set and drive to be successful football coaches at the level of the MAC conference than there are people who have the skill set and drive to be cops -- or professors, for that matter. 

In some places police are paid as much as coaches and professors. Depends on the local labor market. 

I'm not sure I see too much anti-academic stuff here (or anti-coach stuff for that matter).

It is true football coaches have to deal with challenging situations that professors don't.  What Solich did Friday night is one of those things, so is the constant public criticism that comes along with coaching.

When you're comparing the two careers, there's also just a "slight" difference in job security.  A tenured prof and an FBS football coach could not be more different in that regard.

This debate is fun and we have a long wait until Temple so I'm going to stir the pot a bit. Here's a list of the salaries made public by Texas A&M:

www.collegiatetimes.com/databases/salaries/texas-am-university-2010

On that list are a couple of names, one you may recognize and another you may not:

Timothy J Deruyter

Athletics

$400,000

Bjarne Stroustrup

Computer Science

$293,464

Deruyter was our D-Coordinator during some good times and some very dark times (2002-2004). On the other hand, Bjarne Stroustrup is arguably one of the most famous computer scientists in the world having designed the programming language C++. Simply put, everyone writing software knows this name. Keep in mind as you're typing your responses, your computer is most likely executing instructions that were written in C++

So, who deserves the better salary? The world renowned scientist or the man who lost 31-0 to Northeastern? Discuss!

This reminded me of an e-mail I received many years ago:


Michael Jordan having 'retired,' with $40 million in
endorsements, makes $178,100 a day, working or not.

If he sleeps 7 hours a night, he makes $52,000 every
night while visions of sugarplums dance in his head.

If he goes to see a movie, it'll cost him $7.00, but
he'll make $18,550 while he's there.

If he decides to have a 5-minute egg, he'll make
$618 while boiling it.

He makes $7,415/hour more than minimum wage.

If he wanted to save up for a new Acura NSX
($90,000) it would take him a whole 12 hours.

If someone were to hand him his salary and
endorsement money, they would have to do it
at the rate of $2.00 every second.

He'll probably pay around $200 for a nice round
of golf, but will be reimbursed $33,390 for
that round.

He'll make about $19.60 while watching the 100- meter dash in the
Olympics, and about
$15,600 during the Boston Marathon .

This year, he'll make more than twice as much
as all U.S. Past presidents for all of their
terms combined.

Amazing isn't it?

However...
If Jordan saves 100% of his income for the next
500 years, he'll still have less than Bill Gates has
at this very moment.

Game over. Nerd wins .....

Tim Deruyter is also one of the smartest guys you will ever meet, and can make a machine do about anything you want.  Would also be willing to bet that Tim had a higher ACT/SAT score than anyone on this board.

Exactly. And for the eleventy billionth time - and I guarantee by some this will be seen as political but know I am saying this from any side of any A vs. B salary debate - this fact bears repeating:

Your salary and your worth are NOT the same thing. 

Actually, Paul, in one of the rare times I'll agree with Wanamaker, D-Root is a really smart dude. Grobie basically had to hire him away from doing some real serious next-level stuff with satellites, I think, when he first came to Ohio. Did I get that right, John? I mean, he was in the Air Force doing some pretty heady stuff.

You don't know very much about computers do you?

You are backing me into a corner when you say things like "Tim Deruyter is also one of the smartest guys you will ever meet, and can make a machine do about anything you want." How can I resist responding to such an unintentionally hilarious sentence?

And for the equally unbelievable assertion that Troy Calhoun and Tim Deruyter BOTH scored nearly perfect SAT scores...Prove it old man.