Football Coaches At Colleges Where Adjuncts Earn $1,500 Per Course Score Million Dollar Raises

By Derick E. Hingle Les Miles, coach of the top-ranked LSU Tigers, is among the highest paid coaches in the country. So, at a time of tightening budgets, how does a public employee get a 50% raise of nearly $1 million after one year on the job? “You’re always looking at whether or not you have the potential to lose a good coach and end up having to pay more in order to get the next one,” Florida State President Eric Barron says. That sort of inflationary reasoning is a factor in the rapid rise in salaries of major-college head […]