[Hound05]

Apparently my post came off the wrong way. It wasn't my intention to come off as pissy or offended. I got what you were saying and was illustrating how Belfry handles the coaches in the classroom issue when they can, while alos noting that Haywood was able to fill his school roll without it impacting his school job or his coaching job because it wasn't too overwhelming and the students aren't being cheated. Now I did attend a school in grade school where the basketball coach taught science, lets just say during basketball season we didn't learn a lot of science. I agree that Coaches shouldn't be bothered with being in a Classroom if they are hired to Coach, most times it is convenient though to also work at the school because that is where most of their income comes from and it guarantees a schedule that will work with their sport.

If I read the bylaws correctly most of our coaches, including Coach Haywood are classified as Level 1 coaches. I don't think any school who wants to keep their Coach will be impacted by this retirement issue because they can just become Level 2 coaches, which I believe doesn't require them to be employed by the school. They can retire from teaching and still be able to be paid for coaching as Level 2 if I read things correctly.

Now what I haven't been able to find is if Level 2 coaches are paid more than level 1 coaches, which is why we see more Level 1's. Level 1 coaches are usually paid a stipend of 8-12K (last time I saw, may be higher now). I know here in GA over 25 coaches are making 6 figure salaries with the highest paid coach making about 175K. Those guys are all teachers, teaching 2 classes a day making teaching salaries, but they are getting several different incentives to get to that point. One Coach is making a salary for teaching ($70,870.00); working an extra 50 days ($18,650.00); and a supplement for coaching football ($16,500.00), plus incentives for playoffs and state titles. This is how most of their contracts work. Another coach who doesn't teach is making 57K a year just coaching football. If this is the case in KY then it makes sense for the school financially to hire a teacher who can coach an only pay a small stipend vs a full salaried coach and a separate teacher.

10-4 man it all good.

That’s interesting and a good point about the level 2 coaches, I couldn’t find anything either. Like you said if it works out like it should, they should be able to draw retirement and get possibly level 2 pay for coaching. I’m not sure how that works though.

Wooowwwww!!!!! GA really takes cares if coaches down there! I think FL is close to the same way from what a relative told me.