What makes the 1 percent worth all that money?
Dec 1, 2011, 8:35 AM | Updated: 9:30 am
Listen to Dave Ross Commentary: What makes the 1 percent worth all that money?
It’s an amazing story — at a time when higher ed budgets are being mercilessly cut, Washington State University whose football record was 9-40 under its old coach, has hired coach Mike Leach to turn it around and will pay him a guaranteed salary of over $2 million a year.
At first glance, this looks like another example of out-of-whack priorities, but there’s a reason: WSU was tried of being a doormat, and Mike Leach apparently knows how to win with non-superstar players at middle-of-nowhere schools. And number two, he isn’t afraid to actually execute what he knows will work because his job depends on it.
“When O-line, D-line go one-on-one and just get incredibly violent, that’s what it’s all about,” said Leach.
He was on 60 Minutes in 2009 describing why we love football:
“There’s shouting. There’s blood. There’s boogers, the whole thing.”
That’s what makes him worth over $2 million plus incentives; he’ll do what it takes to win as ugly as it may sound. Otherwise, he gets fired!
So then, what would it take to get America’s business and political leaders, our capitalist coaches, to show the same kind of commitment to turning around an economy that this guy brings to football? Two and a quarter million plus incentives? THEN I SAY WE PAY IT! But wait, they already make way more than that. So based on the record, it’s must be time to fire them.
I will say one thing for our current capitalist coaching staff, they do have the booger part down.
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