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Forbes created the list by comparing losing football coaches' salaries to the average salary of other coaches at his school. Tuberville's $2.1 million in earnings last year was 382% higher than his Texas Tech counterparts. It also equates to about $420,000 per win during Tech's 5-7 season.

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I didn’t understand this when this came out in December. Greedy is not the right adjective. Tuberville may very well be over-paid by the time it is all said and done, but greed is a desire to acquire stuff and keep it for yourself, which we don’t know what Tuberville does with his money. Forbes is going for a shocking title, but this is about potentially a bad contract, and to have a contract, both sides have to agree.

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by Seth C on Jan 16, 2012 12:27 PM CST reply actions  

I agree that greedy is not the right adjective. I do think that the adjective comes from an poor assumption that if these “greedy” coaches had not taken all of the money, then the other coaches would would be making more. Maybe a better way would be to pay Tuberville based on conference wins, say $300,000 each with another $300,000 for a bowl victory.

Simple rule of thumb: Everything before the but is BS.

by FriscoRaider on Jan 16, 2012 12:58 PM CST up reply actions  

So based on the article:

The list relies on our Greed Premium metric, which measures each coach’s salary as a percentage of the average salary for head coaches of all sports at his school last year.

It looks like TT is making 382% more than his head coaching counterparts at Tech. So I guess they are looking at the disparity in head coaching salaries at Tech.

by TxTechKeith on Jan 17, 2012 8:08 AM CST up reply actions  

Overpaid sounds better

Tuberville was given a pay raise, he didn’t demand it. But then again who knows? He may end up being worth every penny???

Get your kicks, on route 66...

by ReneR on Jan 16, 2012 12:42 PM CST reply actions  

Forbes has a lot of insight on greed I do not doubt...

I do not like the premise of the headline, Tuberville or no.

I bet every coach in the nation who are not paid as well would have as much desire as anyone to be so.

We have contracted a guy who looked like he could do the job and are playing him well to do it. We will see soon enough whether the contract worked. That has little to do with greed per se, if a guy is not ambitious, I cannot see how we would want him.

Seth again makes good words to help with the perspective.

Boo Forbes !!

Living large in Texas...Texas forever.

by TallMike on Jan 16, 2012 12:43 PM CST reply actions  

Look on the bright side

He was paid $420K for each win, but it only cost Tech $300K for each loss. All about the silver-lining.
(sarc font).

IMWTx

"We thought we were too good to play Texas f-ing A&M. Now how in the F can that be?" ML

by imisswesttexas on Jan 16, 2012 4:04 PM CST reply actions  

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