August 29, 2007
Mack Brown Gets Raise, Contract Extension
Mack Brown got a nice belated birthday gift this week as the UT Board of Regents unanimously approved a $200,000 raise for the Texas football coach.
Brown, who turned 56 on Monday, had his salary go from $2.6 million to $2.8 million and received a two-year contract extension designed to keep him at Texas until 2016. The new amount includes a special $100,000 that he'll receive on Saturday, when the Longhorns open their season against Arkansas State.
The contract also outlines a set of bonuses that include:- $50,000 for making the Big 12 championship game
- $100,000 for winning the Big 12 championship game
- $50,000 for making a bowl game
- $100,000 for winning a bowl game
- Between $25,000 and $450,000 based on Top 10 rankings
- Between $20,000 and $150,000 based on the team's annual graduation rate
Based on published reports, Brown is now the fifth-highest paid coach in college football, behind Alabama's Nick Saban ($4 million), Oklahoma's Bob Stoops ($3.45 million), Notre Dame's Charlie Weis ($3 million), and Iowa's Kirk Ferentz ($2.84 million). If Brown is still coaching the Longhorns on Jan. 1, 2009, he'll receive a retention bonus of $1 million; if he's still coaching the Longhorns on Jan. 1, 2010, he'll get an additional $2 million.
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I am so glad that the tens of thousands of dollars I have piddled away at that university are going to make a real difference in someone's life.
Joel, UT football is self-supporting. Your tuition doesn't pay Mack Brown's salary.
Whatever. That's like saying our aid to the Israelis doesn't pay for bullets that kill Palestinians.
And why in the hell would the regents have to approve it if it didn't affect the UT general fund? And the fact that athletics is self-sustaining is a joke, anyway. Why is it the one unit of the university that is allowed an independent budget? Shouldn't athletics-since it trades on the UT name-contribute a progressive percentage to the university at large?
Thanks to the failed legislative strategy of the administration, the university lost 2% of the state's contribution. At a time when the academic and service units are forced to tighten their belts, is it fair (or sane) to be doling out huge raises to Brown? I don't think so.
Guest #3: Uhhhh.... what does your non-objective, highly objectionable view of the Middle East (i.e. blame it on the Jooos) have to do with football?
Uh, of the $93M annual athletic budget UT has, I believe all of it comes from private donations seeing they can not use state funds or funds provided for educational purposes for athletics like other universities can.
Guest #4:
It has to do with how funding works, not football. If Group A supports Group B in a particular endeavor with financial assistance, it frees up Group B's existing funds for other uses. In this case, if there is support for athletics from the university in the form of financial resources, it allows them to use existing resources for highly questionably timed raises for already overcompensated coaches.
And contrary to some of the other posters' misinformation, the university contributes financial, service and support resources to athletics. They are only an island when it comes to internal fundraising.
BTW, I don't think I blamed the "Joos" anywhere in my original post, but this is standard AIPAC M.O. when anyone questions American involvement in a regional conflict involving Israel. I speak of Israel the government and its policies, but you immediately made the false leap that I was anti-semitic in order to try and end the conversation.
Guest #3/6: I get it. You're not blaming Joos. You're blaming AIPAC. Probably because the Joos, through AIPAC, control the US government. Which isn't you blaming Joos. Nope. Just Zionists.
What this has to do with football you still haven't mentioned. What this does have to do is broadcast your very own agenda of anti-Jooish propaganda.
See, as a Joo, I'm quite awaree of the tactics often used to smear my religion. Of course, I deserve it, as me and my people control the US government (via AIPAC), and the gas companies, the world press, the banks, world trade. Ooh, and we killed Jesus. Out of spite, y'know?
And this has everything to do with Mack Browns contract extension, and nothing to do with your ill conceived, improper, totally unsuppportive original view that the US government is paying Israel to kill those Palestinians who have been blowing themselves up on Israeli buses, instead of working to make peace with a now 60 year old entity.
Keep denying reality, Guest #3/6.
It's always interesting to watch a truly insecure person revert to projected discrimination in order to defend against abject paranoia.
Unless the nation of Israel is a theocracy, you've no basis for this line of argument. You did bring religion into this, after all.
Mack Brown has benefited from the largess of UT, period.
Sorry you've created a situation to be offended by, guest #4/7.
wow thats alota money