You may have heard Iowa’s strength and conditioning coach’s salary made some noise this week when we learned he is now the highest paid such coach in all of college football at $595,000 a year. Let’s start with the obvious: that’s some serious dough. If anyone wants to pay me that kind of money to do just about anything, let me know. But the question at hand isn’t whether that’s a lot of money, it’s whether that’s too much money.
It’s a tough question and given the dollars involved in college sports and football in particular, it’s one I think worth dissecting.