Originally Posted by
uh_no
You can entice a minimum wage worker to change jobs for a couple bucks an hour. That won't entice a doctor or lawyer or someone else making 150k a year. You might entice one of those people to jump ship for 20k a year. You're not going to get someone making a couple mil to jump for 20k a year.
It's all relative to the market. It has to be. So no, I don't consider it out of line to what it would take someone to jump jobs relative to her compensation. Also remember that she likely has performance bonuses, lowering the effective increase by %.
So while I agree with the notion that coaches in general are overpaid, I don't think of putting it in average-wage terms does someone in that position's decision making justice. I'm sure there are people on this board who have changed jobs for a "small bump" which is larger than the yearly salary of some other people on this board. It's the world, and I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but to kim mulkey, it is not a life changing increase in compensation.
Yep, the world is definitely geometric in scale. I would also say that Mulkey's desire to leave Baylor was -- for some reason -- growing geometrically as well.
I expect she will end up tarnishing her coaching rep, but she also has personal reasons for making the move.
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013