$512,664
On November 29, the amount was released by the Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement System after The Patriot-News of Harrisburg won a five-year court case that was decided last week in Pennsylvania’s state Supreme Court. The salary does not include other football-related income. According to an Associated Press report and an article in the New York Times, please note that in comparison, Alabama’s Nick Saban makes $4 million a year and Oklahoma’s Bob Stoops makes more than $3 million. But those figures include base salaries from their universities and outside income related to football from other sources.Further, it is fairly well known that Paterno contributes heavily to Penn State. The Library at Penn State? It's the Paterno Library.
Did I mention that Paterno turns 81 today? The article quotes Paterno as saying to reporters at a luncheon that Paterno "expected to coach for 3, 4 or 5 more years but probably not as many as 10."
Good for you, Joe. Good for you.
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Regarding the Paterno Library, I'm not sure how much he personally contributed. I believe that the idea was to name the library for him as a way to raise money. Much easier to ask all the athlete alumni, who traditionally would contribute only to the athletic program, to contribute toward a Paterno Library than to a library named for some academic figure. Pretty smart move on the part of library fund-raisers. Maybe I should name my archives after Paterno. ;)
How depressing. Imagine if our childrens' teachers made HALF that much! This is partially why I stopped watching any sports at all (beyond little league.)
Stoops and Saban deserve that much money because they bring in scholar-athletes to raise their universities profiles.
Hahahahahaha.
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