Hamilton gets raise, UT athletics stable E-mail
Written by Grubby   
Saturday, 11 July 2009 10:01

Tennessee athletics director Mike Hamilton agreed to a new contract this week.  The terms of the new deal equate to about a 43% raise and will put him in the top 10 of AD salaries across the NCAA.

From the Knoxville News-Sentinel,

"Interim UT president Jan Simek praised Hamilton’s ability to make tough decisions in recent years.

Since succeeding Doug Dickey in 2003, Hamilton has replaced the head coach in basketball, baseball and, most recently, football, while keeping the UTAD financially solvent."

Florida's Jeremy Foley is the highest paid AD in the land, according to SportsBusiness Daily.  To us, that ranking makes sense.  Florida has a top 3 football program, a top 5 baseball program and a top 30 basketball program... and are well above the poverty line when it comes to ticket and logo sales.

 

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To pay Hamilton top 10 money to run a top 50 (maybe?) football program, a top 25 basketball program and a baseball program into the ground (thank you very much Todd Raleigh) doesn't make as much since.  I'll leave the Rod Delmonico discussion for a different column (did anyone else see what he did with the Neder-hosen in the WBC?).

If Simek is happy to pay people to make tough decisions, I would like to submit my name for full-time trigonometry problem-worker.  I'm surely one of the top 1000 in the Southeast, which should garner me top 20 money.

On the surface this sure doesn't appear to make sense when every single one of your major teams is coming off a didn't-meet-expectations year.  But maybe we should give this thing time.  We can revisit this re-up and judge it against history in another 5 years.

Or another 2 raises.  Whichever comes first.

[KNS]

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