Mack Brown's raise, and the UT faculty response

[Fiyero]

Not all is coming up roses in Austin.

Texas’ decision to make Mack Brown the highest-paid college football coach in America did not go over well with some of his fellow university employees.

The UT faculty council approved a resolution Monday calling Brown’s $2 million raise "unseemly and inappropriate," given the school’s budget situation. The resolution passed with an informal vote, because the faculty did not have a quorum to make it official.

Last week, UT’s board of regents voted to make Brown’s $2 million annual service payment permanent through the end of his contract. That raise means UT will pay Brown $5 million per year through 2016.

More:
http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/c.../79376522.html

[TripletDaddy]

UT should lighten up. The faculty is obviously unaware that sports budgets dwarf academic budgets at schools like Texas.

The entire faculty should be expecting $3M raises next week at Christmas, esp considering the size of UT's research endowment.

Football money is a pittance!

[il Padrino Ute]

2 thought:

First, as DDD mentioned, Mac Brown and the football program generates so much money that the academic types there should shut their yaps. I'm guessing that a portion of that money goes to the different colleges within the university.

2nd, if the faculty council called the pay raise "unseemly and inappropriate", why the hell did it approve it?