On Tue, 18 Apr 1995, Tony Buffa wrote: (Edited) > > Geiger said OSU is ready to pay the going rate for a top-level > > college hockey coach, which may be about $80,000 a year. Jerry > > Welsh, who resigned in February, earned $43,000 this year, which > > ranked him among the lowest-paid Division I coaches. > > > ================= > > At my home institution, we hire new PHD's at under 35K per year (almost > poverty in Calif, and certainly almost never get married people at that > level) ... people who have been thru 4 years of undergrad and up to 10 of > grad and postdocs..... our max salary (attained after about 20 years if > you are kept) is 61K. And we are getting raked over the coals for not > being able to attract minority faculty .... ! > > What a hypocritical arena > DI athletics has become. The presidents OK six figure salaries for > athletic directors and coaches, and let the faculty recruiting go to hell. > One of these days, it will all come home to roost. > > Tony Buffa > RPI '64 > U of Illinois '66 > U of Illinois '69 > > Physics Dept, Cal Poly, SLO > Supply and demand. When there are too few PhD's and too many hockey coaches, the salaries will change. James