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Oregon Daily Emerald Sports Supplement
Wednesday, April 7,1982
y coaches speak candidly on the
tribulations of their chosen profession
Coaching is not (vtt * game ot order* and
Kdone. Thera to much more involved Much
Oregon football coach Rich Brooka,
iketbatl coach Jim Haney, wreatting coach
% Finley and track coach Bill Dellinger,
closed m an Emerald interview that coaching
in involved process
to atl three main issues of coaching were
tmaaad wfth the Duck head coaches Their
n coaching philosophies. pressures in their
tineas and salaries on the coitege level.
SALARIES
Ever since Jackie Sherrill. the former
aburgh Panther football coach, took the head
at Texas A&M and is reportedly making $ 1
Hon e year, coaches' salaries have been
netted as being too high At Oregon, where
i budget is tight, there are not Jackie Sherrills
tong $1 mimon a year - only a bunch of
tehee hying to do their jobs.
BROOKS: On one hand, we live in a
•^enterprise system and people are entitled to
clever they can make, if coaches can get the
typo of money Jackie Sherrill is making, fine But
on the other hand, somewhere along the line,
coaches' salaries should be kept in perspective
in relation to what other people in eduation are
making these days
HANEY:1 If someone can make a million
dollars a year, more power to them. But then the
fans would be quick to blame the coach before
the players In professional athletics, things are
different because the athletes usually are making
more than the coaches So the fans would blame
the athletes before the coach Anything is
possible with money, but with a state school tike
Oregon, it will be a tough time tor a coach to
make more than the governor . "
FINLEY: "I don't think the big salary thing
will ever hit wrestling because it's not a big
money-making sports. I don't think many schools
around the country will pay big salaries because
they don't want to hire someone, and than have
to fire them because of a poor record, and then
have to pay off their contract. The sound
programs don't have to do that."
All the coaches feel that the big salaries may
be around to stay, but they feat that Oregon will,
most likely, never pay s big salary. Money In
coaching Is always an issue, but there are those
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