Letter: What about Coach Fleck’s high salary?

[BleedGopher]

per Dennis:

To the editor:

Rep. Peggy Scott (Opinion, Jan 24) objects to the salary given to the new University of Minnesota provost, Dr. Rachel Croson.

Croson’s salary and benefits will total over half a million dollars annually.

Croson has a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard. She, to put it simply, is the CEO of the five-campus university system. For fiscal year 2020, the university’s operating budget is $4.2 billion.

P. J. Fleck, the U’s football coach, has an annual salary, with a new seven-year extension, of $4.6 million annually. He oversees the football program. Coach Fleck, then, earns about $4 million more annually than Dr. Croson.

I am interested in Rep. Scott’s opinion on this.

Dennis Nelson

Letter: What about Coach Fleck’s high salary?

To the editor:

www.hometownsource.com

Go Gophers!!

 

[Schnauzer]

I'm amazed at how these apples/oranges opinions eternally crop up.

 

[MNVCGUY]

The salary of a provost and that of the head football coach should never be put up against each other. They come from two different worlds. Yes, football coaches are paid and obscene amount of money these days but what we are paying Fleck is well within the range of what Power 5 head coaches are being paid all over the country.

 

[GoldenRodents]

Peggy needs to go back to the shallow end of the pool.

 

[Pompous Elitist]

Dennis Nelson needs to retake freshman economics.

 

[KillmeNow]

Universities are hiring way too many administration people and paying them too much, and charging students more and more and more money, all the while knowing the Federal Government will give the students the loans, it's a racket and it needs to stop or our nation's public universities will start losing applicants. More and more people will move towards going to trade schools or private colleges. This is already happening actually.

But that doesn't mean that the person in charge of the whole school shouldn't get paid a good salary. But imo, if she doesn't trim the fat per se, and figure out a way to start attracting conservative students, it could hurt the U big time.

 

[Veritas]

Not one penny of Coach Fleck's wage comes from the taxpayers. TV revenues more than pay his wage and all other coaches of all other sports at the U. No teams, no TV revenue, no coaches, no fans, it is all a business which has nothing to do with our taxes.

 

[#2Gopher]

Not one penny of Coach Fleck's wage comes from the taxpayers. TV revenues more than pay his wage and all other coaches of all other sports at the U. No teams, no TV revenue, no coaches, no fans, it is all a business which has nothing to do with our taxes.

People don't get this as they are not aware of it. Perhaps a response is due to the Minneapolis Trib.

 

[Deckergopher]

Universities are hiring way too many administration people and paying them too much, and charging students more and more and more money, all the while knowing the Federal Government will give the students the loans, it's a racket and it needs to stop or our nation's public universities will start losing applicants. More and more people will move towards going to trade schools or private colleges. This is already happening actually.

But that doesn't mean that the person in charge of the whole school shouldn't get paid a good salary. But imo, if she doesn't trim the fat per se, and figure out a way to start attracting conservative students, it could hurt the U big time.

Ok Bernie.

 

[gopher1more]

Ok Bernie.

I think you have the wrong guy. He said the U had to start attracting “conservative students.” I believe he is on the other side of the spectrum.

 

[LakevilleBro]

Dennis Nelson is making my brain hurt. In addition to all of the valid comments above, people generally get paid compared to how easily they are replaced. Hiring a provost is far easier, than to try and find a replacement for PJ Fleck. GO GOPHERS!

 

[Veritas]

People don't get this as they are not aware of it. Perhaps a response is due to the Minneapolis Trib.

I am not allowed to post on either news paper site. Too conservative, too frugal, too cynical about the motives of our elites. Posting on this issue is just the sort of thing the Strib would hate.

 

[Wally]

Coaches salaries are obscene, pay the players, they generate a good share of the value.

 

[Thomasthetank]

Universities are hiring way too many administration people and paying them too much, and charging students more and more and more money, all the while knowing the Federal Government will give the students the loans, it's a racket and it needs to stop or our nation's public universities will start losing applicants. More and more people will move towards going to trade schools or private colleges. This is already happening actually.

But that doesn't mean that the person in charge of the whole school shouldn't get paid a good salary. But imo, if she doesn't trim the fat per se, and figure out a way to start attracting conservative students, it could hurt the U big time.

This is 100% spot on.

When you federalize student loans, colleges know they can rack up tuition because they know they money will keep coming in. Hence the whole forgive student loan debt is ridiculous.

If student loans were privatized and kids had to apply for them just like other loans (home, car, business) and show a business plan about how it is a good investment, college tuition would be 1/4 of what it is now

 

[OldBob53]

This is 100% spot on.

When you federalize student loans, colleges know they can rack up tuition because they know they money will keep coming in. Hence the whole forgive student loan debt is ridiculous.

If student loans were privatized and kids had to apply for them just like other loans (home, car, business) and show a business plan about how it is a good investment, college tuition would be 1/4 of what it is now

I went to U long ago and remember paying about $300 per quarter or semester, whatever it was. How times have changed.

 

[Calm Down]

This is 100% spot on.

When you federalize student loans, colleges know they can rack up tuition because they know they money will keep coming in. Hence the whole forgive student loan debt is ridiculous.

If student loans were privatized and kids had to apply for them just like other loans (home, car, business) and show a business plan about how it is a good investment, college tuition would be 1/4 of what it is now

While I don't disagree the increased amount of federalized student loans has played a part in the rise of tuition. To say we need to force kids to write a business plan on how they are going to repay their loans completely misses the points of a liberal arts education... Also, most people learn how to write a business plan in college.

 

[A_Slab_of_Bacon]

This is 100% spot on.

When you federalize student loans, colleges know they can rack up tuition because they know they money will keep coming in. Hence the whole forgive student loan debt is ridiculous.

If student loans were privatized and kids had to apply for them just like other loans (home, car, business) and show a business plan about how it is a good investment, college tuition would be 1/4 of what it is now

We would also have a significantly less educated workforce.

While the system could use some work... just letting student loans run through a private system would result in dramatically undereducated workers.

There's a lot of value in having an educated workforce. There's a reason states are involved.