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As a free market advocate (and one who believes student-athletes in revenue-earning sports should be paid), I applaud Shaw getting teh compensation he deserves, as long as the total pay package continues to be based on performance. I feel better that if Shaw leaves Stanford for greener pastures, it won't be for the money.
Still, the numbers are eye-pooping for me considering that when I was a student and Denny Green was the coach, the Stanford President made about $180K per annum and I'd guess that Green made less than that amount. It seemed to me that in those days the unsaid guideline was that the football HC would not make more than the University President who would not make more than the chairman of the Surgery Department in Med School (who IIRC made about 450K)

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As a free market advocate (and one who believes student-athletes in revenue-earning sports should be paid), I applaud Shaw getting teh compensation he deserves, as long as the total pay package continues to be based on performance. I feel better that if Shaw leaves Stanford for greener pastures, it won't be for the money.
Still, the numbers are eye-pooping for me considering that when I was a student and Denny Green was the coach, the Stanford President made about $180K per annum and I'd guess that Green made less than that amount. It seemed to me that in those days the unsaid guideline was that the football HC would not make more than the University President who would not make more than the chairman of the Surgery Department in Med School (who IIRC made about 450K)