These are the 2018-2019 forecasts for the Athletic Department $120,584,750 in operating expenses, $120,584,750 in revenue. This is ignoring the ~$5M in subsidies from the academic side for the Jock Box, President Schill’s skybox, Lorraine Davis, etc. The ~$1.5M subsidy for the Hayward Field utility tunnel is buried somewhere else.
https://static.goducks.com/custompages/pages/athlfin/FY19Budget.pdf
Some partial compensation data for the athletic department from spring 2019 (doesn’t include bonuses, DAC & CC membership, family travel, etc.). It totals $28,055,867:
| last_name | first_name | base_salary | total_comp | academic_title |
| Altman | Dana D | $2,500,000 | $2,506,000 | Head Men’s Basketball Coach |
| Altman | Dana D | $6,000 | $2,506,000 | Courtesy Car Stipend |
| Cristobal | Mario | $2,500,000 | $2,500,000 | Head Football Coach |
| Leavitt | James P | $1,700,000 | $1,703,600 | Assistant Football Coach |
| Leavitt | James P | $3,600 | $1,703,600 | Courtesy Car Stipend |
| Arroyo | Marcus | $825,000 | $828,600 | Assistant Football Coach |
| Arroyo | Marcus | $3,600 | $828,600 | Courtesy Car Stipend |
| Mullens | Robert A | $780,189 | $787,389 | Dir Intercollegiate Athletics |
| Mullens | Robert A | $7,200 | $787,389 | Courtesy Car Stipend |
| Salavea | Joseph | $650,000 | $653,600 | Assistant Football Coach |
| Salavea | Joseph | $3,600 | $653,600 | Courtesy Car Stipend |
| Graves | Kelly L | $650,000 | $650,000 | Head Women’s Basketball Coach |
| Heyward | Keith | $600,000 | $603,600 | Assistant Football Coach |
| Heyward | Keith | $3,600 | $603,600 | Courtesy Car Stipend |
| Horton | George E | $500,000 | $500,000 | Head Baseball Coach |
| Williams | Donte A | $400,000 | $403,600 | Assistant Football Coach |
| Williams | Donte A | $3,600 | $403,600 | Courtesy Car Stipend |
| Stubblefield | Anthony G | $400,000 | $400,000 | Assist Men’s Basketball Coach |
| Lombardi | Melissa K | $325,000 | $375,436 | Head Softball Coach |
| Lombardi | Melissa K | $50,436 | $375,436 | Softball Camp Overload |
| Mastro | James E | $367,000 | $370,600 | Assistant Football Coach |
| Mastro | James E | $3,600 | $370,600 | Courtesy Car Stipend |
| Wilson | William K | $350,000 | $353,600 | Assistant Football Coach |
| Wilson | William K | $3,600 | $353,600 | Courtesy Car Stipend |
| Johnson | Robert A | $350,000 | $350,000 | Head Coach M&W Track Field |
| Mirabal | Alejandro J | $350,000 | $350,000 | Assistant Football Coach |
| Williams | Robert | $350,000 | $350,000 | Assistant Football Coach |
| Johnson | Michael E | $335,000 | $335,000 | Assistant Football Coach |
| Feld | Aaron W | $310,000 | $310,000 | Strength & Conditioning Coord |
| McKenna | Kevin R | $300,000 | $300,000 | Assist Men’s Basketball Coach |
| Lananna | Vincent J | $289,855 | $289,855 | Associate Athletic Director |
| Mennenga | Michael M | $280,000 | $280,000 | Asst Men’s Basketball Coach |
| Roedl | Eric L | $265,200 | $265,200 | Deputy Athletic Director |
| Davis | Lorraine G | $234,370 | $234,370 | Special Assistant to AD |
| Martin | Casey M | $227,500 | $232,300 | Head Men’s Golf Coach |
| Martin | Casey M | $4,800 | $232,300 | Courtesy Car Stipend |
| Peterson | Lisa L | $204,376 | $209,176 | Deputy Athletic Director/SWA |
| Peterson | Lisa L | $4,800 | $209,176 | Courtesy Car Stipend |
| Campbell | Mark J | $204,000 | $204,000 | Assoc Head Women’s BB Coach |
| Duncan | Michael P | $181,023 | $185,823 | Sr Assc AD Operations & Events |
| Duncan | Michael P | $4,800 | $185,823 | Courtesy Car Stipend |
| Skaggs | Gregory C | $181,800 | $181,800 | Director of Athletic Medicine |
| Radcliffe | James C | $181,622 | $181,622 | Head Strength Coach |
| Cohn | Henry J | $178,500 | $178,500 | Sr Assoc AD for Development |
| Dietrich | Jason E | $171,259 | $174,859 | Pitching Coach/Recruiting Coor |
| Dietrich | Jason E | $3,600 | $174,859 | Courtesy Car Stipend |
| Uhlman | Jason A | $160,712 | $164,312 | Assistant Baseball Coach |
| Uhlman | Jason A | $3,600 | $164,312 | Courtesy Car Stipend |
| Hawkins | Jeffrey N | $131,745 | $161,245 | Ar Assc AD/HDC Admin & Ops |
| Hawkins | Jeffrey N | $29,500 | $161,245 | Performance Stipend |
| Delaney | Jace A | $160,000 | $160,000 | Dir of Perf & Sports Science |
| Stanton | James T | $155,040 | $159,840 | Senior Assoc Athletic Dir Communications |
| Stanton | James T | $4,800 | $159,840 | Courtesy Car Stipend |
| Ulmer | Matthew D | $155,000 | $155,000 | Head VB/Beach VB Coach |
| Berry | Jodie R | $149,152 | $152,752 | Asst Women’s Basketball Coach |
| Berry | Jodie R | $3,600 | $152,752 | Courtesy Car Stipend |
| Shults | Justin R | $118,000 | $151,600 | Assistant Softball Coach |
| Shults | Justin R | $30,000 | $151,600 | Softball Camp Overload |
| Shults | Justin R | $3,600 | $151,600 | Courtesy Car Stipend |
| Yamanaka | Herbert S | $148,067 | $148,067 | Associate AD |
| Sykes | Jody M | $142,794 | $147,594 | Sr Assoc AD, Chief Compliance |
| Sykes | Jody M | $4,800 | $147,594 | Courtesy Car Stipend |
| Shea | Devon M | $143,125 | $146,725 | Assoc AD Facilities & Events |
| Shea | Devon M | $3,600 | $146,725 | Courtesy Car Stipend |
| Taylor | Curtis A | $135,000 | $138,600 | Assoc Hd Coach M&W Track Field |
| Taylor | Curtis A | $3,600 | $138,600 | Courtesy Car Stipend |
| Langenfeld | Megan D | $100,000 | $133,600 | Assistant Softball Coach |
| Langenfeld | Megan D | $30,000 | $133,600 | Softball Camp Overload |
| Langenfeld | Megan D | $3,600 | $133,600 | Courtesy Car Stipend |
| Brooks | Stephanie L | $64,448 | $127,658 | Athletic Trainer |
| Brooks | Stephanie L | $63,210 | $127,658 | Instructional Overload |
| Lehman-Winters | Helen L | $120,000 | $123,600 | Assoc Hd Coach M&W Track Field |
| Thomas | Benjamin D | $120,000 | $123,600 | Assoc Hd Coach M&W Track Field |
| Lehman-Winters | Helen L | $3,600 | $123,600 | Courtesy Car Stipend |
| Thomas | Benjamin D | $3,600 | $123,600 | Courtesy Car Stipend |
| Mertz | Katherine H | $118,000 | $122,800 | Head Women’s Soccer Coach |
| Mertz | Katherine H | $4,800 | $122,800 | Courtesy Car Stipend |
| Field | Stephen L | $122,388 | $122,388 | Director of Recruiting |
| Schyllander | Nils J | $120,000 | $120,000 | Head Men’s Tennis Coach |
| Jamieson | Joshua A | $115,815 | $119,415 | Dir of Men’s Basketball Ops |
| Jamieson | Joshua A | $3,600 | $119,415 | Courtesy Car Stipend |
| Fisher | Justin J | $116,580 | $116,580 | Asst Athletic Dir, Development |
| Radley | Derek | $110,000 | $110,000 | Head Women’s Golf Coach |
| Mansfield | Mary Ellen | $106,639 | $106,639 | Asst AD-Budget & Business Svcs |
| Butler | Christopher P | $105,000 | $105,000 | Asst AD for Information Tech |
| VanBecelaere | Evan P | $105,000 | $105,000 | Asst Strength & Conditon Coach |
| Gamble | Chelsea R | $100,000 | $104,800 | Head Women’s Lacrosse Coach |
| Gamble | Chelsea R | $4,800 | $104,800 | Courtesy Car Stipend |
| Smith | Jody L | $104,156 | $104,156 | Assistant Athletic Director |
| Clever | John W | $103,331 | $103,331 | Executive Asst AD, Compliance |
| Murray | Kimberly | $103,057 | $103,057 | Assistant AD Development |
| Fyle | Matthew S | $102,000 | $102,000 | Asst Strength Condition Coach |
| Lopez | Xavier | $97,627 | $101,227 | Asst Women’s Basketball Coach |
| Lopez | Xavier | $3,600 | $101,227 | Courtesy Car Stipend |
| Noyer | Matthew M | $100,797 | $100,797 | Director of Football Ops |
| Broadstone | Courtney N | $100,000 | $100,000 | Head Women’s Tennis Coach |
| Smith | Jerrold L | $98,828 | $98,828 | Radio Announcer |
| Terrell | Kimberley S | $98,238 | $98,238 | Assoc Dir Athletic Medicine |
| Groscup | Leslie E | $96,918 | $96,918 | Senior Dir of Arena Operations |
| Arends | Thomas P | $96,900 | $96,900 | Director of Player Personnel |
| Covington | Samuel J | $94,350 | $94,350 | Dir of Athletic Facilities Sys |
| Steil | Kevin P | $93,442 | $93,442 | Assoc Dir Ath Med/Football |
| Blood | William N | $92,700 | $92,700 | Exec Asst AD Business Ops |
| Pierson | Patrick S | $92,700 | $92,700 | Assoc Ath Dir Communications |
| Pohl | Steven A | $90,537 | $90,537 | Video Coordinator |
| Dillard | Erika M | $86,700 | $90,300 | Assitant Volleyball Coach |
| Dillard | Erika M | $3,600 | $90,300 | Courtesy Car Stipend |
| Wasson | Aaron T | $88,736 | $88,736 | Asst AD Equipment & Champion |
| Brewer | John C | $88,087 | $88,087 | Asst AD for Marketing & Sales |
| Campbell | Charles R | $87,358 | $87,358 | Event Fire Protection Mgr |
| Henson | Seth H | $82,000 | $85,600 | Asst Men’s & Women’s T&F Coach |
| Henson | Seth H | $3,600 | $85,600 | Courtesy Car Stipend |
| Ruckwardt | Mark E | $83,752 | $83,752 | Exec Asst AD Human Resources |
| Schaffeld | Joe C | $83,066 | $83,066 | Special Projects |
| Klein | Jacqueline M | $52,000 | $82,000 | Dir Softball Operations |
| Klein | Jacqueline M | $30,000 | $82,000 | Softball Camp Overload |
| Williams | Shaud R | $81,600 | $81,600 | Asst Strength Conditional Coach |
| Broders | Jonathan M | $77,548 | $81,148 | Director of Development |
| Broders | Jonathan M | $3,600 | $81,148 | Courtesy Car Stipend |
| Brooks | Leanne R | $81,136 | $81,136 | Asst AD Academic Eligibility |
| Whitsitt | Erik M | $76,376 | $79,976 | Assistant Track & Field Coach |
| Whitsitt | Erik M | $3,600 | $79,976 | Courtesy Car Stipend |
| Sargeant | John E | $79,944 | $79,944 | Dir Food & Beverage Concess Sv |
| Harris | Jason R | $75,000 | $78,600 | Asst AD, Ticket Sales & Serv |
| Harris | Jason R | $3,600 | $78,600 | Courtesy Car Stipend |
| Steele | Jillian K | $74,753 | $78,353 | Asst AD for Track & Field Ops |
| Steele | Jillian K | $3,600 | $78,353 | Courtesy Car Stipend |
| LaBounty | Scott B | $77,784 | $77,784 | Assistant AD/Video Services |
| Strand | Victoria R | $76,684 | $76,684 | Dir Of Athletic Events Srvs |
| Dillon | Mark A | $76,500 | $76,500 | Asst Strength & Cond Coach |
| Walker | Gregory S | $74,830 | $74,830 | Assoc Director Media Services |
| Toy | Roger C | $74,578 | $74,578 | GM Concessions Autzen & Mo |
| Halseth | Travis J | $62,220 | $74,220 | Athletic Trainer |
| Halseth | Travis J | $12,000 | $74,220 | Conf Injury Data Stipend |
| Farr | Kenneth S | $73,248 | $73,248 | Football Equipment Admin |
| Vanorsdel | Kari J | $73,097 | $73,097 | Director of Food Operations |
| Harbert | Katherine E | $72,010 | $72,010 | Asst AD Student-Ath Develop |
| Santos | Holly F | $70,884 | $70,884 | Asst AD, DAF Operations |
| Lopez | Megan M | $67,183 | $70,783 | Dir of Women’s BB Operations |
| Lopez | Megan M | $3,600 | $70,783 | Courtesy Car Stipend |
| Martins | Emanuel M | $69,901 | $69,901 | Assoc Head Womens Soccer Coach |
| Smith | Dustin E | $68,680 | $68,680 | Football Video Coordinator |
| Motta | Joseph V | $67,450 | $67,450 | Director Facility Operations |
| Jamieson | Clayton E | $63,089 | $67,089 | Athletic Trainer |
| Jamieson | Clayton E | $4,000 | $67,089 | Conf Injury Data Stipend |
| Butler | David R | $66,300 | $66,300 | Assistant Volleyball Coach |
| Price | Nicole L | $65,000 | $65,000 | Asst Women’s Lacrosse Coach |
| Lanning | Bradley E | $64,978 | $64,978 | Assistant Men’s Golf Coach |
| Jorgensen | Laura A | $64,654 | $64,654 | Asst AD/Director of Ticket Ops |
| Wagner | Carolyn M | $60,770 | $64,370 | Dir Annual Giving Duck Ath Fun |
| Wagner | Carolyn M | $3,600 | $64,370 | Courtesy Car Stipend |
| Embree | Thomas R | $62,721 | $62,721 | Athletic Trainer |
| Phillips | Joshua E | $62,500 | $62,500 | Asst AD Creative&Digital Media |
| Winters | Da’Vell A | $62,500 | $62,500 | Assistant Director Football |
| Won | Keenyn M | $57,000 | $61,800 | Head Acro & Tumbling Coach |
| Won | Keenyn M | $4,800 | $61,800 | Courtesy Car Stipend |
| Davis | Mark C | $61,200 | $61,200 | Asst Strength Condition Coach |
| Robinson | Elizabeth L | $57,500 | $61,100 | Assistant Women’s Tennis Coach |
| Robinson | Elizabeth L | $3,600 | $61,100 | Courtesy Car Stipend |
| Moseley | Robert J | $61,083 | $61,083 | Editor in Chief |
| Batley | James W | $57,217 | $60,817 | Sr Assoc Dir of Development |
| Batley | James W | $3,600 | $60,817 | Courtesy Car Stipend |
| Sigler | Andrew M | $60,636 | $60,636 | Sr Assoc Dir of Development |
| Wilson | Grant | $56,556 | $60,556 | Athletic Trainer |
| Wilson | Grant | $4,000 | $60,556 | Conf Injury Data Stipend |
| Halseth | Heather R | $60,030 | $60,030 | Athletic Trainer |
| Asisi | Funaki T | $60,000 | $60,000 | Assistant Director Football |
| McKay | Benjamin A | $60,000 | $60,000 | Sports Science Coordinator |
| Heim | Joshua A | $59,950 | $59,950 | Assistant Director Football |
| Spencer | Arron R | $56,175 | $59,775 | Assistant Men’s Tennis Coach |
| Spencer | Arron R | $3,600 | $59,775 | Courtesy Car Stipend |
| Malme | Christopher N | $58,866 | $58,866 | Senior Assoc Dir of Development |
| Noyer | Cassidy J | $57,570 | $57,570 | Assistant Director Football |
| Crockett | Lauren C | $53,560 | $57,160 | Assoc Dir of Admin, Events |
| Crockett | Lauren C | $3,600 | $57,160 | Courtesy Car Stipend |
| Gottfried | Timothy C | $56,560 | $56,560 | Gen Mngr Concessions-MKA |
| Verdugo | Alexander | $55,957 | $55,957 | Assistant Director Football |
| Miles | Kenneth S | $55,282 | $55,282 | Assoc Director Communications |
| Jackson | Nia J | $54,060 | $54,060 | Dir Creativity Womens BBall |
| Smith | Terrence C | $53,990 | $53,990 | Director of Ticket Sales |
| Vaughn | Monica R | $50,000 | $53,600 | Assistant Women’s Golf Coach |
| Vaughn | Monica R | $3,600 | $53,600 | Courtesy Car Stipend |
| Barrientos | Christian | $53,000 | $53,000 | Interim Football Ops Syst Mgr |
| Oshiro | Tracy C | $52,887 | $52,887 | Athletic Trainer |
| Walton | James D | $52,412 | $52,412 | Dir of Baseball Operations |
| Kendrick | Erica B | $52,186 | $52,186 | Athletic Trainer |
| DeMartini | Michael J | $51,500 | $51,500 | Asst Dir Business Office |
| Gomez | Vanessa | $51,123 | $51,123 | Athletic Trainer |
| Look | Kodi W | $51,000 | $51,000 | Asst Director of Football Ops |
| Kirby | Jessica M | $50,684 | $50,684 | Dir of Operations for VB & LAX |
| Dougherty | Charles D | $50,410 | $50,410 | Operations Supervisor |
| Clinton | Arne R | $50,000 | $50,000 | Operations Supervisor |
| Eaton | Jeffrey P | $50,000 | $50,000 | Asst Strength Condition Coach |
| Terai | Guysen S | $50,000 | $50,000 | Asst Strength & Cond Coach |
| Callaghan | Thomas | $49,809 | $49,809 | Production Manager |
| Robertson | Megan B | $49,029 | $49,029 | Dir, Promotions & Gameday Exp |
| Wardsworth | Katherine G | $45,000 | $48,600 | Director of Track & Field Ops |
| Wardsworth | Katherine G | $3,600 | $48,600 | Courtesy Car Stipend |
| Jupe | Nikki M | $48,450 | $48,450 | Senior Sports Dietitian |
| Stewart | Jeffrey L | $47,594 | $47,594 | Assoc Dir of Ticket Operations |
| Hinton | Tyler P | $47,301 | $47,301 | Asst Dir Athletic Compliance |
| Lewis | Cris M | $47,000 | $47,000 | Assistant Women’s Soccer Coach |
| Manseau-Toth | Julia R | $46,920 | $46,920 | Event Manager |
| Cross | Alexis N | $46,683 | $46,683 | Assoc Dir Dev Women in Flight |
| Waltasti | Joseph F | $45,911 | $45,911 | Asst Dir Ath Communications |
| Rogers | Joseph D | $45,125 | $45,125 | Matt Knight Equipment Mgr |
| Harlee | Jessica N | $45,000 | $45,000 | Coord Student-Athletic Devel |
| Salemo | Anna F | $45,000 | $45,000 | Asst Women’s Lacrosse Coach |
| Grotefend | Cynthia A | $43,038 | $43,038 | Luxury Suites Service Manager |
| Hughes | Taylor A | $42,650 | $42,650 | Sports Dietitian |
| Lawson | Zachary D | $42,500 | $42,500 | Asst Director Athletic Comms |
| Lockett | Dana J | $41,395 | $41,395 | Cheer Advis/Prod Asst |
| Frieler | Bethany J | $40,594 | $40,594 | Junior Sports Dietitian |
| Sylvester | Jordan E | $40,594 | $40,594 | Junior Sports Dietitian |
| James | William F | $40,117 | $40,117 | Concessions Event Manager |
| Harrer | Janice M | $40,000 | $40,000 | Assist Beach Volleyball Coach |
| Groen | Brielle N | $38,760 | $38,760 | Coord of Athletic Admin |
| Krueger | Nathan J | $38,494 | $38,494 | Asst Director Athletic Comms |
| Fraser | Elise J | $37,911 | $37,911 | Assistant Events Manager |
| Herteg | Lee R | $37,512 | $37,512 | Asst Dir Promo & Gameday Exper |
| Tacey | Anthony C | $36,465 | $36,465 | Asst Dir of Ticket Operations |
| Jeffries | Jacqueline S | $35,700 | $35,700 | Asst Acro and Tumbling Coach |
| Morill | Allen | $35,578 | $35,578 | Asst MBB Conditioning Coach |
| Sanders | Kenneth | $12,000 | $12,000 | Moving Expense Stipend |
It is good to remember that the head football coach is in charge of a “business” that has $100 million in revenue. The median compensation for companies with $100-$250 million in revenue is…wait…just $528,000? https://chiefexecutive.net/ceo-and-senior-executive-compensation-in-private-companies-2018-19/
How about non-profits? The median salary of heads of non-profits in the highest revenue class (>$10 million) was $190,000.
Football coaches are really in a pay grade of their own, disconnected from any kind of downward pressure to keep the salary at a reasonable level.
That’s mostly because they can’t pay the players.
A better comparison is with the AD. That is a much more modest salary.
The head coach is as much a performer as an executive, or more. Kind of like a conductor of a symphony orchestra.
You might not like it, and I might not either, but the market says what the head coach is worth in the market. A lot.
We can eat our envious hearts out, it doesn’t matter.
Personally, I would much rather have a Nobel prize.
I think coaching salaries are driven upwards because there is no downside for the AD to pay more. As thedude said, they don’t pay the players, and there is no pressure to keep money for a rainy day or support student tuition with it. So when boosters demand wins and there is no pressure to rein in costs, we end up with high salaries to people like Leavitt who is getting $1.7 million for coaching…at FSU. That isn’t the market, it is more akin to CEOs being golf friends with the board that sets their salary and getting outlandish compensation unconnected to performance.
I’m not speaking from envy. I feel sadness that a university mismanages its cash cow and asks students to dig deeper into debt, maybe take on another late night shift while trying study. It pushes staff and grad students to strike over matters that are fractions of coaching salaries. All because they see tuition dollars as easier to exploit than trying to hold back coaching salaries.
Thanks, comment of the week. As Milton Friedman said, there’s nothing easier than spending other people’s money on your friends.
Nobel Prize isn’t putting butts in the seats.
But a Nobel Prize does enhance the university’s research reputation, which would bump up a couple of notches in the US News rankings, which would increase applicants and enrollment by a non-zero amount over a long period of time. Compare that to hiring Helfrich/Taggart/Cristobal/ and getting up and down results. Most schools pay millions to get a coach, get less than desired, and end up hiring another coach while continuing to pay off the previous one or two. Even “sure fire” coaches like Harbaugh have had sub-par results at $7 million a year. If Michigan had invested in a future Nobel winner like Jennifer Doudna instead they’d have the licensing rights to a billion dollar genome editing innovation.
For empirical support for this argument see https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11162-018-9537-8
Anonymous — Nobel prizes (UO has one current winner on the faculty) may or may not put “butts in seats.” But they assuredly will pull in more good students. I would wager more money too, in the long run. Maybe the money has to come first. I’m sure it’s a self-reinforcing loop.
Science Duck — I don’t see what the coaches have to do with it. As long as Phil Knight and the fans and the TV are willing to pay for it. If Phil withdrew all his money from athletics, do you think that would free up money for academics? On the contrary, UO would be subsidizing athletics (or subsidizing it more heavily, much more) than at present.
I would be thrilled to have more Nobelists here, either hired from other places, or home grown. Unfortunately, the people with the money to make it happen don’t seem to have that as a high priority, at least not at present. I wonder why that is?
I think we are living in a world where we have bought into that idea–Phil pays for it, so there is no possible better world. I totally agree we are lucky at Oregon. Can you imagine talking about tuition where the explicit athletic subsidy is $5 million, $10 million or even $40 million? At Delaware the subsidy to athletics is $2,000 per enrolled student. 50 of the 230 schools listed https://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/finances/ pay more than $20 million a year. My point is not wishful thinking that if Phil was told “no more athletics donations” he would re-double his already excellent academic donations. It is that why do we accept a world where the first priority is paying coaches? If schools agreed on reducing subsidies, or god forbid requiring that a percentage of earnings would go to the academic part of the university, then there would still be a market price for coaches, just lower.
We are lucky at Oregon. But if the Red Queen race continues (after all, now everyone has fancy inlaid wood lockers and hologram uniform changing rooms, so millions will have to be spent on things of even less marginal utility to stand out) will those resources always be there to keep up without a subsidy? Could Oregon turn into a Delaware under the wrong circumstances? I’d like to think not, but somehow dozens of schools ended up meekly paying a bundle without a peep.
the current nobelist is 74 years old and essentially inactive
there is currently little evidence that his presence has enhanced
anything – hell the Knight Campus could use him as a general consultant, for instance, but clearly, that insular club knows exactly what is best.
Nobel prize winners are simply too scarce to be the currency of choice. But UO could pay more attention to hiring [ or growing] folks with what the National Research Council deems ‘highly prestigious honors’. UO does a little of this [ eg, it boasts about NAS, NAE, NAM and AAA&S members], but not nearly enough and not as much as other AAU schools. And it does not treat these folks nearly as well as big grant getters [ I checked a few salaries]. UO needs a culture of excellence in this sense to attract these sort of folks to campus , and keep them; yrs ago UO had 3 MacArthur Fellows in Biology; 2 went elsewhere.
Geez, car stipends for the total $210,000 (modulo typo). Altman gets a $6K car stipend? Nice!
OK, $210,000 car stipends for athletics… Let’s add ALL the car stipends for EVERYONE on campus.
Lowest paid, GE & Classified, get targeted for crap/no COLA’s, more gouging for health insurance, stagnant wages for 27% topped out classified, while admin and athletics get nice COLA’s, fabulous raises, freaking car stipends that are more than three months’ entire salary for peons.
Geez.
Generally I wouldn’t get too agitated by car stipends. I would assume/hope that the stipends are in lieu of the $.58/mile federal reimbursement for mileage, and for people that travel a lot, its probably cost neutral.
It would be interesting to see the comparison of athletics to the UO’s Knight Campus pet project hires. I bet most of them are a 0.05-0.15 Dana Altman/Mario Cristobal….
why doesn’t phillips just double is salary by also being the baseball coach. I mean its the same job, your just moving pieces around on a playing field …
Don’t be ridiculous. Being a good baseball coach is nowhere near as easy as being a good provost.
When similar arguments were being made years ago, a former president said that while his personal inclination would be to spend less on athletics, that just isn’t how the world works; if you object to the football coach’s salary, your problem isn’t with the UO, it’s with American society. Big-time college athletics is a business in a market-based economy, and that’s what you pay to get the talent so you can be competitive.
I agreed that this was the sad reality for the revenue-generating sports of football and basketball and a few others, but did we need to be competitive in the more obscure, money-losing sports that have few supporters? Could we really argue that the golf program brings in all those out of state undergrad fans paying full tuition? My personal benchmark has always been the Assistant Volleyball Coach’s salary. And I’m happy to note that for the first time ever, through decades of shear perseverance, my salary has finally surpassed that level. I can now contentedly contemplate my retirement, basking in having achieved this milestone.
This apparently is a common conclusion among former Univ presidents . Somewhere on the web is a discussion by 4 former presidents of the lessons they learned: # 1 appears to be the high importance of intercollegiate athletics. maybe not the Univ of Chicago, and a few others but yes, state schools.
My guess is we’d get more out of state students aggressively funding club teams students can join that feature the outdoors.
Cut sports no one watches and focus on
1. Outdoor club
2. MTB club
3. Track clubs
4. Other arts
5. E-sports (video games)
Let them major in econ, business, data science.
Create new majors in digital media (go pro editing), get outdoors, etc, places they spend their time anyways,
If we’re going to be a “country club” for rich out of state students, lets be a club for the people writing the checks.
Herb Yamamaka is making $150k/yr. He’s got to be 80+ years old. What does he do for that salary?