"When the economy goes south, coaching salaries are easy targets." (HA)
About how he is more concerned about the priorities placed on athletics than just Mac's salary, Kapiolani Community College Prof. Harry Davis IV said:
"I see no positive result for just bashing one person over the salaries for all of athletics." (HA)
HA Note: "But if you are the coach of a 3-6 team when unemployment is high, the state is cutting back on education, the university and its faculty are at odds over a new contract and you are earning 12 times what the average full professor on campus makes, it can be the perfect storm. McMackin, in the second year of a five-year contract, has an agreement worth $1,138,504 this year that ranks him 52nd among 120 NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision teams, according to a USA Today survey of major college football teams that was released this week. All but $38,500 is salary, according to the listing."
HA Note: "Defending WAC champion Boise State's Chris Petersen, who is listed at $1,123,150, ranks second to McMackin in the nine-member conference. They are the only two head coaches in the WAC guaranteed more than $1 million this season. Fresno State's Pat Hill is to receive $963,506 but the Fresno Bee has reported he can make $1.2 million with bonuses."
About how what a college pays its football coach is where it sets its priorities, Murry Sperber (professor emeritus at Indiana University) said:
"At a time when the university (of Hawai'i) is cutting employees and shrinking academic departments and functions, its pay of an ever-increasing amount to its head football coach clearly signals that it values entertaining football above academics. That's a sad state of affairs." (HA)
About how the media is partially to blame, Davis said:
"Look at (The Advertiser) — how much sports coverage do you have compared to education? The same goes for TV news. Education only gets coverage when it suffers furlough days. I wonder how many of your readers even know the difference between academics and sports. They think football, not science." (HA)
About how more than 80% of the Presidents of D-IA football schools agree that athletic department spending cannot be sustained nationally, WAC Commissioner Karl Benson said:
"Nationally, I think, somewhere it has to come to a screeching halt." (HA)
About how the players backed Mac, Solomon Elimimian said at the time he was hired:
"Coach Mac is the best man for the job. He has everybody's respect on the team, along with the coaching staff. He knows about the culture of Hawai'i. He knows about us as people. I've talked to a lot of guys on the team, and he's their choice. Coach Mac will bring us together." (HA)
About how they needed to offer Mac a big contract to keep him at UH, Chancellor Hinshaw said:
"It was clear to those of us involved that such an agreement was required to ensure that he stayed at UH-Manoa. Many considerations go into an individual's decision about a position and all are different but coach McMackin had many good reasons to move at that time." (HA)
HA Note: "Hinshaw and interim athletic director Carl Clapp headed the selection committee for a new coach under the pressure of a fast-closing recruiting period for high school players and amid public outcry for urgency. McMackin was hired Jan. 15, two weeks before the end of the recruiting contact period and less than three weeks before national letter of intent day. McMackin's representatives reportedly insisted upon the same terms — $1.1 million — UH initially offered to Jones. UH reportedly went as high as $1.5 million in an 11th-hour bid to keep Jones. McMackin's hiring was widely praised though the terms of the deal, a five-year contract some have described as "ironclad," and the hefty base salary immediately raised eyebrows at an athletic department that was running an accumulated deficit of upward of $5 million."
About how he supported the hiring of Mac but felt they could have paid him less with less guaranteed years, J.N. Musto (executive director of the UH Professional Assembly, the faculty union) said:
"I suspect — and it is my personal opinion — that (UH) could have fairly compensated Coach Mac at less than they agreed to at a term of less than five years." (HA)
HA Note: "A better solution, some at UH peer institutions have said, would have been a $500,000 to $700,000 base salary with incentives pegged to attendance, ticket sales, pay-per-view sales, record and postseason appearances. As UH made money, the coach would benefit. making profit
At UH, football is often said to be the engine that pulls the 19-sport train that is the state's only major college athletic department. In the past fiscal year, UH credited football with bringing in $10,556,500 to the department through ticket sales, media rights, sponsorships, donations and other sources, officials said. That accounted for approximately 37 percent of the department's revenue. Its $3,169,000 profit helps underwrite six to eight sports that don't bring in revenue."
About how he has focused on "incentivized" contracts since he became Athletic Director, JD said:
"My personal philosophy, as we go forward, has been to see that coaches (be given) a fair base salary with incentives tied to performance, etc." (HA)
About how he makes an exception for Wahine volleyball coach Dave Shoji (Hall of Fame coach making about $175k per year) said:
"Dave is a rare case; a proven coach over decades who has shown the ability to run a good program, graduate his players and draw fans." (HA)
Greenwood said that Mac's contract:
"was negotiated before I came here, and that said, the coaching staff and the team have my support. And remember, as I understand it, June Jones went from a 9-4 season in 1999 to a 3-9 record the next year. So not all coaches have good years every year." (HA)
About Mac's salary, Musto said:
"is can we afford it? If it is a public enterprise, it is a simple question. There is no free lunch." (HA)
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