McLovin

We're talking about passing, not succeeding in, high school classes here. There's either a history of borderline/failing performance in school or a severe lack of effort on the student's behalf. I guarantee you three things: 1) The teacher was aware. 2) The student was aware. 3) The coach did not care enough to involve themselves in the education of these student athletes. The blame for academic failure is on the student and teacher. The blame for ineligibility ignorance is on the coach. Seriously, how many players are there to check on?

Wonderful! We started at: High school head coaches shouldn't make $155,000 because teachers' salaries aren't that high. Now we have: High school head coaches should make less than administrators and more than teachers, but top-end salaries should come down. I think that's much more agreeable. A few things to consider would be: If you take the AD role away from the HC and lowered them to a teacher's salary, how much would you pay an AD, and how would the combined total compare to a HC/AD combo salary? What is a reasonable ratio of HC/AD to superintendent pay, teacher to superintendent? Is this worth only a 33% pay increase over teachers and even pay with administrators with no teaching duties? Does enrollment, regional cost of living, or regional average family income change these numbers? Looking at numbers across the state and the fact that benefits as a percentage of wages is generally the same between public and private, the answer would be that it will cost the district more to employ a teacher and an administrator than to employ an individual to do both. That holds true in Lake Travis ISD, which is the source of this wretched number. By your scale: HCAD/Super 80%(72% statewide), Teacher/Super 60%(40% statewide), Teacher/HCAD 75%(56% statewide). In Lake Travis ISD, HCAD/Super 41%, Teacher/Super 13%, Teacher/HCAD 32%. The biggest offender in this controversial example is not the coaches pay, rather the superintendent's pay($374,143) which would scale the HCADs salary to $300,000!

I offered you to elaborate so we might better understand the foundation of your opinion and give it some weight. You cannot, or you refuse. Thus, your opinion is as worthless to this thread as our backgrounds are to the argument. There is truth in logic upon facts, regardless the source, and you have offered none. Let's get back on track. Do you have those numbers yet?

I've no concern with salary caps or dispute with state funding allocation, so if ta ceiling is how you wish to express those amounts, do share. I appreciate the reminder of the subject matter, but it makes no difference; many public sector positions are not immune to broader market influences and trends. In some cases, they are even in direct competition with private employers. I'd like you to remember that your answer to my question of why HCs shouldn't be paid $155,000 was a rhetorical question regarding teachers' salaries, so I'm acknowledging that we ought to analyze the two positions on the basis of their equivalence and also in relation to other high paying roles within the system rather than opine on how those numbers make us feel when we look at them. Let's focus on the substance and not my background, your background, red herrings, ad hominem, etc.

You've answered many replies. Please, do one more for the sake of not ignoring inconvenient truths and not leaving a problem without a solution. Assign salaries in actual dollar amounts next to the following items and justify those numbers with respect to market demand(hiring competition), required skills and degrees, and parity of the quality of viable applicants for each role: Superintendent - $ Principal - $ Assistant Principal - $ Teacher(Core Department Head) - $ Teacher(Standard Certified) - $ Teacher(Not Certified, Non-core) - $ Janitor - $

Why?

J'Covan Brown named to Academic All-Big 12 Men's Basketball Team [Hidden Content]

WOS by 14+ The poll is bogus.

It only concerns the people in the clubhouse. Our opinions should have no impact on what goes on behind closed doors in a MLB franchise. ESPN should be ashamed of covering this. Professionalism? Are you kidding me? They play a game for a living.

Haha. Apparently the writers over at the enterprise crawl the SETX forum for ideas.

Has there been recent conversation on coaching salaries in Southeast Texas? Who are the highest paid? Who offers more to assistants? I assume this info is in a public record somewhere, so why not compile it? Also, any juicy rumors of coaches getting more than we're told? I believe this thread has real potential if it doesn't already exist. If nothing else post what you've heard about the pay scale at local schools.

You're welcome.

That number sounds right. I was told 12/50000. It doesn't work. Never did, never will.

Depends, sometimes it's not as bad as the brow-beating they take from their father in the stands. I've never really had a problem with coaches though. The parent issue is unbearable.

Say it ain't so.