Washington’s highest paid state workers are coaches, not politicians

DerekJohnson

https://columbian.com/news/2023/jul/05/washingtons-highest-paid-state-workers-are-coaches-not-politicians/

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

Thanks Taft!

RaceBannon

How many politicians went 11-2?

Joey

DeBoner has done more for me in a year and a half than Jay Inslee ever wished he could. TITTT

Canadawg

Tldr

"Before getting too worked up, know this: no general fund dollars were used to pay them or salaries of any athletic department employees at UW and WSU. Each university is responsible for generating revenue – think ticket sales, television contracts and boosters – to operate programs and maintain facilities, according to the Office of Financial Management."

GrundleStiltzkin

JoeEDangerously said:

DeBoner has done more for me in a year and a half than Jay Inslee ever wished he could. TITTT

GrundleStiltzkin

Canadawg said:

Tldr

"Before getting too worked up, know this: no general fund dollars were used to pay them or salaries of any athletic department employees at UW and WSU. Each university is responsible for generating revenue – think ticket sales, television contracts and boosters – to operate programs and maintain facilities, according to the Office of Financial Management."

Coaches produce revenue, politicians consume it.

Crisped.

PurpleBaze

TITTT

ntxduck

RaceBannon said:

How many politicians went 11-2?

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1l2y1j/til_in_1930_babe_ruth_signed_a_contract_for_a/

haie

The Columbian.

The biggest husky hating rag in the fucking state. Fuck those guys.

HuskyJW

haie said:

The Columbian.

The biggest husky hating rag in the fucking state. Fuck those guys.

Spokesman is pretty close

haie

HuskyJW said:

haie said:

The Columbian.

The biggest husky hating rag in the fucking state. Fuck those guys.

Spokesman is pretty close

At least the Spokesman has somewhat of a reason to be. Columbian is just a bunch of fucking losers that fluff the other 3 NW schools.

Fishpo31

I can’t remember for sure the year, but there was a big stink when Don James signed a new contract making more than the Gov. One of the responses stuck with me, something along the lines of “70,000 people don’t pay to watch the Governor work six times a year”…

*Edited for shit tier reading skills

PurpleThrobber

DeBoer and Dickert had a better year than Inslee.

"Perusing the chart, the first 30 names are linked to one or the other universities."

And you wonder why the cost of college is outrageous.

dirtysouwfdawg

Great bored selection, Taft.

1to392831weretaken

YellowSnow

DeBoer in 2024!

whlinder

I mean it's been this way for 30 years. The same outrage articles appeared during the Rick era. News at 11.

The #1 thing that most Washington state taxpayers know about their state government funded institutions of UW and WSU is the performance of the football team at each university. Seems like a logical investment for the politicians to pay the coaches.
(This was far more relevant 20-30 years ago but still)

ntxduck

whlinder said:

I mean it's been this way for 30 years. The same outrage articles appeared during the Rick era. News at 11.

The #1 thing that most Washington state taxpayers know about their state government funded institutions of UW and WSU is the performance of the football team at each university. Seems like a logical investment for the politicians to pay the coaches.
(This was far more relevant 20-30 years ago but still)

It’s outrage clickbait for the uneducated population. The majority of people think a school’s football team is funded by the school/taxpayer $ and don’t know that the AD is a completely separate financial entity from the school.

FireCohen

ntxduck said:

whlinder said:

I mean it's been this way for 30 years. The same outrage articles appeared during the Rick era. News at 11.

The #1 thing that most Washington state taxpayers know about their state government funded institutions of UW and WSU is the performance of the football team at each university. Seems like a logical investment for the politicians to pay the coaches.
(This was far more relevant 20-30 years ago but still)

It’s outrage clickbait for the uneducated population. The majority of people think a school’s football team is funded by the school/taxpayer $ and don’t know that the AD is a completely separate financial entity from the school.

99.99% of the population is retarded even the ones that have a fancy education

YellowSnow

ntxduck said:

whlinder said:

I mean it's been this way for 30 years. The same outrage articles appeared during the Rick era. News at 11.

The #1 thing that most Washington state taxpayers know about their state government funded institutions of UW and WSU is the performance of the football team at each university. Seems like a logical investment for the politicians to pay the coaches.
(This was far more relevant 20-30 years ago but still)

It’s outrage clickbait for the uneducated population. The majority of people think a school’s football team is funded by the school/taxpayer $ and don’t know that the AD is a completely separate financial entity from the school.

If we're here to bash outrage clickbait for the unwashed masses then I'm fucking out.