Why Should Notre Dame's Football Coach Make More Than Tenured Professors?

<p>The previous post about the article that states Joe Pa only made 500K is 2 years old (2007).</p>

<p>[Records</a> show Joe Paterno is Penn State’s highest-paid employee - ESPN](<a href=“LIVE Transfer Talk: Man United, Chelsea mull Braithwaite move - ESPN”>Records show Joe Paterno is Penn State's highest-paid employee - ESPN)</p>

<p>Penn State coach Joe Paterno is a millionaire.
Records released Friday by the university show the 82-year-old Hall of Famer is Penn State’s highest-paid employee, making more than $1.03 million last year.</p>

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Penn State pointed out in a note accompanying its salary list that only five of the 32 employees whose earnings were released are paid with tuition and/or state money. The rest are employees of its medical center and intercollegiate athletics department, which are self-supporting entities…</p>