Texas Tech Freezes Faculty Salaries While Giving Its Football Coach a $500,000 Year Pay Increase

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Texas Tech University seems to be sending a rather curious message about its priorities. Faculty members are objecting after the administration froze faculty salaries for the entire university but then gave Texas Tech football coach Tommy Tuberville a $500,000 a year raise.

Texas Tech wiped out $3 million in faculty raises for 2011 and then turned around and approved an obscene five-year, $11 million contract for Tuberville. That is an increase from $1.5 million to $2 million a year.

Full story: http://jonathanturley.org/2011/02/22/texas-tech-freezes-faculty-salaries-while-giving-its-football-coach-a-500000-year-pay-increase/

Last season, the Texas Tech Red Raiders finished 8-5 (3-5 Big 12 South) and won the TicketCity Bowl over Northwestern.

[EOTE]

1. Hey, those TicketCity Bowls don't come cheap.

If you know of a cheaper way to win something of absolutely no consequence, I'd like to hear it.

[Tansy_Gold]

2. Anybody who brags about beating Northwestern is in sad shape n/t

[QC]

3. Tommy Tuberville is a giant gaping a-hole.

I was at Ole Miss when he betrayed his players. He promised he wasn't leaving them, and then they saw him on TV declaring his intention to go to Auburn. His players really had believed him, until then.

The man is scum.

[hughee99]

4. The Ticket City bowl was a $1.2 million payout. n/t

[Blue_In_AK]

5. It's Texas,

and football is God.

Sick.

[Pisces]

6. Nothing comes before football in Texas.

[rdking647]

7. football

and football does actually make money..

[Ilsa]

9. Yes, and I suppose we'll all have to become football players

To earn a salary going forward. ;-(

It's obscene. I have been nagging my SO about moving for ages.

[Sonoman]

8. Tommy couldn't carry Mike Leach's playbook.

Couldn't understand it, either.

He'll do worse, next year, when he has fewer of Leach's players on board.

Sonoman

[jxnmsdemguy65]

10. Fuck football.... I so hate that fascist 'sport'... nt