Whoa. A college football coach is the highest paid california state employee? Seems like california is focused on the wrong things.
http://www.californiagoldenblogs.com/2010/12/3/1850306/thoug...
http://www.texastribune.org/library/data/government-employee...
The highest paid professor is Steven Weinberg, a Nobel Prize winning physicist ($391,000).
"no college or university in the United States has an athletic department that is financially self-sustaining."
Does Texas' $3M coach bring in an additional $2.9M+ per year compared to if Texas hired a coach for $100,000?
BCS: "Between 50 and 60 percent of football and men's basketball programs have reported net generated revenues (surpluses) for each of the five years reported."
Translation: football makes money, other sports lose money.
FBS: "Only two percent of football programs reported net generated revenues."
Translation: When your program sucks, your revenue sucks too.
Also note that all 14 programs that made money overall were BCS teams.
Whether that's a business that universities should be in is a question for another day.