While I agree that the escalation in coaches' salaries is unsustainable, to question Key’s salary is puzzling. Let’s see…
This is a positive and necessary step in the right direction.Georgia Tech coordinators see bump in pay
Georgia Tech’s three coordinators are making a combined $1.7 million under first-year coach Brent Key, according to contracts obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. That sum is part of the $7.5 million pool Key was afforded to pay his staff upon his hiring in December.www.ajc.com
It's a start and it will get better.
GT's enrollment counts the online students which inflates the number a ton, and those people are giving essentially nothing to the school or the football program.I had a conversation with a friend this weekend. She randomly said GT was #2 in total enrollment in the state of GA, and ahead of UGA. I looked it up and found this:
Largest Georgia Colleges and Universities
This page features colleges with the largest student population in Georgia.www.univstats.com
For my purposes, I would consider total enrollment about equal for the top 4 on that list. Given that, you would think GT would be better than the numbers you quoted...and we know your numbers are probably accurate given how cheap GT fans are. I don't expect GT to be anywhere close to UGA athletic donations, but given the numbers, you would hope GT could at least break $20 million. Nope.
The other thing is GT's male enrollment is pretty high. I would make a guess (maybe a bad one) that males give more to their school's sports programs than females do.
Really odd numbers all around for GT.
I can contribute to this... I'm in an online masters program at GT now, and there are something like 2-3K students in my program alone. I imagine that there is a huge number of students across all online programs combined.
The percentage of our study body and alumni who care enough about sports to donate is drastically lower than UGA’s percentage. A lot of that has to do with the type of student we attract, where they’re from, where the go after graduation. We attract kids from all over the planet, who in turn move all over the planet after graduation. A lot of these kids have never watched a football game, no do they during their time at Tech. It’s not the bulk of our students, but it’s a lot of them. A lot of kids choose UGA based on the football experience alone, stay in state, donate and become season ticket holders. Enrollment numbers and male population don’t matter in my opinion if they’re from the other side of the globe and recognize Lionel Messi over Calvin Johnson. Haha that’d actually be a great study with our male students. Do you recognize these two faces? And see how many more know Messi over Calvin.I had a conversation with a friend this weekend. She randomly said GT was #2 in total enrollment in the state of GA, and ahead of UGA. I looked it up and found this:
Largest Georgia Colleges and Universities
This page features colleges with the largest student population in Georgia.
For my purposes, I would consider total enrollment about equal for the top 4 on that list. Given that, you would think GT would be better than the numbers you quoted...and we know your numbers are probably accurate given how cheap GT fans are. I don't expect GT to be anywhere close to UGA athletic donations, but given the numbers, you would hope GT could at least break $20 million. Nope.
The other thing is GT's male enrollment is pretty high. I would make a guess (maybe a bad one) that males give more to their school's sports programs than females do.
Really odd numbers all around for GT.
I had a conversation with a friend this weekend. She randomly said GT was #2 in total enrollment in the state of GA, and ahead of UGA. I looked it up and found this:
Largest Georgia Colleges and Universities
This page features colleges with the largest student population in Georgia.
For my purposes, I would consider total enrollment about equal for the top 4 on that list. Given that, you would think GT would be better than the numbers you quoted...and we know your numbers are probably accurate given how cheap GT fans are. I don't expect GT to be anywhere close to UGA athletic donations, but given the numbers, you would hope GT could at least break $20 million. Nope.
The other thing is GT's male enrollment is pretty high. I would make a guess (maybe a bad one) that males give more to their school's sports programs than females do.
Really odd numbers all around for GT.
That's all of it not part of it. We are probably 4th or 5th in the state if you take out the online MS CS program. Still have a decent sized alumni base that's wealthier than most.
