The idea that a high school athletics director and/or football coach makes this kind of money tells you EVERYTHING you need to know about educational AND athletic priorities in our state.
What this fails to account for is the ridiculous number of overgrown adolescents hired into make-work teacher/instructor jobs to support football as assistant coaches. For years, a WILDLY disproportionate number of PE and Driver Ed jobs went to assistant coaches. Arguably worse: the number who walk into more demanding academic slots without the genuine chops or willingness to do the job IN THE CLASSROOM.
