Bruce Pearl's new salary: $2.4 million

his phone while at the final four in Detroit. Hamilton fell face first into all of the rumors that Memphis and their 50 Jim Haslams were coming after Pearl and they were going to offer Pearl a kazillion dollars to coach in Conferce USA of all places. Pearl just let the rumors run wild, wouldn't answer his phone, and Hamilton obligates the university to pay this guy (who many in the community are growing extremely tired of) $2.4 million, the first two weeks (the first $100,000) he isn't even working, he's coaching the Jewish Olympics basketball team (including Steven Pearl) in Israel. How educational at the university's expense.

Pearl's contract has been renegotiated after the season, 3 of the 4 years he has been here and this year he mailed in a piss poor season, getting blown out by Kentucky twice, blown out by Kansas and Temple, and losing extremely winnable games against Auburn, Ole Miss, Memphis, and LSU, the latter two in Knoxville of all places.

Hamilton is still paying Fulmer $125,000 a month not to be Tennessee's head football coach after Fulmer collapsed under a similar yearly salary and the associated expectations. Hamilton is paying Pearl $200,000 a month, $6,600 a day to coach men's basketball or if you look at it on a per game basis, assuming we win the NCAA tournament, playing a full 32 game schedule and 6 NCAA tournament games, that about $60,000 a game or $1,500 a minute of game time.

No wonder kids who have a chance to go else are putting the University of Tennessee at the bottom of their school of choice list, the University has become the horror that we all feared it would be, after seeing what other state's systems of higher education have chosen to place their piorities on, somewhere else besides the football field or the basketball court.

$60 football tickets, $30 basketball tickets, $4 cokes and $3 hot dogs, for a group of overinflated egos and overpaid middle of the road coaches can tell us how great it is to be a Tennessee Vol. Not.

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Great! That's how

Submitted by CannoKorn on Thu, 2009/07/09 - 3:16pm.

Great! That's how capitalism is supposed to work.

Every time a sports figure

Submitted by metulj on Thu, 2009/07/09 - 6:02pm.

Every time a sports figure at UT gets a raise for being mediocre, every UT degree granted diminishes in value.

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Master's of Science from UTK.

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Yeh, right. What about the

Submitted by CityCat on Thu, 2009/07/09 - 5:09pm.

Yeh, right. What about the other UT employees who are going backwards in compensation? Health care costs are up and NO raises for at least two years.
I suppose teachers and librarians are just so much "socialist fluff," not anything at all necessary for a public university.