UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON

University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank swung at her administrative colleagues at Ohio State and Michigan by expressing her displeasure with the high salaries of the institutions’ head football coaches. In an interview with USA TODAY regarding college football coaches’ salaries, Blank said the lucrative contracts of Jim Harbaugh at Michigan and Urban Meyer at Ohio State resemble professional contracts. “Those are the choices they make,” Blank said. “That really begins to threaten the whole sense that we are not professional athletic teams. I’m not terribly happy about the fact that they made those choices. That’s my opinion.” UW Athletic Director Barry Alvarez doesn’t necessarily see it as a bad thing, though. Alvarez said in the same article that he doesn’t concern himself with salaries of coaches at other schools, but if the institution wants to pay that much for a coach, it should. – Chris Bumbaca, Badger Herald. Read More