Most likely DOA. As mentioned before, Rep. Baumgartner is a disgruntled Wazzu alum.
Probably but between Franklin and Kelly the topic of compensation for staff has a light being shown on it. Opportunity to perhaps at least talk about the absurdity of all this.
Definitely agree that there’s much that needs to be discussed. Salaries, buyouts, NIL, athletic fees, etc. And Baumgartner has a long time interest in high ed, with his recent college athletics crusade directly related to Wazzu getting “left behind” by realignment.
If the top 30-40 schools leavenwill be even more schools that thought they were in the club get left out which will create even more folks in his position.
This is stupid. How can congress cap salaries at a private school???
How can congress cap salaries at state schools. Isn’t that the role of the state?
I hate the high salaries as much as the next guy.
But this is not the way to do it.
The way to do it is to attack the athletic fees being paid by students. That will garner far more support and is not a control on salaries (capping compensation in the USA, not very popular and doesn’t work….). Cleaning up the graft in place in the revenue stream WILL work. Then the market can adjust.
Also a reminder that Baumgartner wants a realignment that would create regional conferences requiring member schools to lie within the same time zone.
In other words, basically resurrect the original PAC-8 of Cal, Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Washington, and - of course - Wazzu!
I would guess they can tie federal funding to some things and influence state policy.
I do think the individual state schools should cap comp at some level. Just have a top pay band like they do for basically every other role.
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I’d like to see a cascade of class action lawsuits by students over this. Would be interesting to watch and see what happens then.
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I would too but the reality is the schools driving most of this don’t use student fees.
Still would like to see it happen though. It’s so ethically and morally wrong to charge students fees to give away what they are paying for to kids making money.
I am a little torn on this. If there is a concert on campus isn’t that what the fees go towards. Things related to a benefit for the student and not related to the classroom. At least I believe this will be the argument if there was a lawsuit. I despise NIL but let’s face it $100 X 30k students is 3 million dollars. Easy money will always be the driver.
There are various fees. Athletics is one of them and that fee only goes to athletics. Students fees account for 21 million of our 41 million dollar budget.
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When a school like FSU - national brand, great facilities, huge fan base, titles - are having to scrape the barrel and search for more revenue it’s a sad state. The model is beyond broke.
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