[Fly Like a Duck]

Let's be honest. I don't care if they dig up the carcass of Bear Bryant, bring in Bill Belichik, or go after whatever local "legend" is out there. The very first question that they ask should be about the classes that this coach is certified to teach.
Paying crazy salaries to coaches (and their wives) has bankrupted the Letcher County School system. It is absurd to pay 75-85 thousand dollars to a coach who might impact the lives of 50 students when CLASSROOM TEACHERS are being let go. If you look up irresponsible in the dictionary, you will see this scenario.
Someone said to me that "no premier football program has coach that teaches during the day." NEWSFLASH: LCC is not a premier program. Let's keep things in perspective, folks.

I would be willing to guess that the 75K is their salary with Teaching/Coaching combined, like it is most places; well, places where the head coach is a certified teacher anyway.

Link:
http://www.education.ky.gov/kde/administ...f+data.htm



As far as your quote, there are a lot of truths to that. I can also name you a lot of prinicpals across the state who didnt get into administration because they loved being in the classroom; I can promise you that.

Making $75K for a teacher/football (basketball coaches, girls and boys are paid the same coaching stipend) isn't unheard of these days, especially if that teacher/coach has their Rank 1 with 20+ years of experience....all of that depends on your district, though. I have attatched an official link from the Kentucky Department of Education that lists Teaching Salary Schedules for every district across the state.

A teacher (only) in Letcher County, with 20-40 years experience on a Rank 1 certificate makes $54, 901 (so, lets call it $55K). If Whitaker and Howard made $75K total then it's because of one and/or two things.

1) The head coaching stipend is $20K
2) The head coaching Stipend is somewhere in the neighborhood of $8-$15K + an X amount of extended days (either for their clasroom job and/or coaching job).

Football coaches obviously get all the critcism in these cases, but I know of places across the state where the Speech/Debate Coaches get paid the same amount of money as the head football, basketball coaches. Guess how much money Speech brings into the school? Zero. Know why people don't bring up those "Spoiled Speech Coaches", because nobody gives a flip.

If you think that money is too much, go look at any school across the state that has Ag departments and check into their payscales. I know one for sure that has two Ag teachers, both whom have Rank 1 degrees with 15-20 years experience and they get 54 extended days...in a nutshell, they make more than 2/3 of the administrators in that district.

And I have news for you, there are just as many Betty Jo English teachers that don't coach a thing, who are far worse teachers than any coaches I have ever met. What's wrong with hiring their wives in the district if they are teachers, also?