Michigan State could hire about 60 professors for what Cavs owner (and MSU alum) Dan Gilbert reportedly is willing to pay Spartan coach Tom Izzo to come to Cleveland.
Tom Izzo's Michigan salary (minus benefits) is worth about 30.6 tenured Spartan professors. Is this sad or just a sign of a blogger with too much time on his hands?CLEVELAND, Ohio -- So the word is that to make it worthwhile for Michigan State University coach Tom Izzo to come coach the Cleveland Cavaliers, MSU alum and Cavs owner Dan Gilbert is willing to double his $3 million a year salary.
That's what Plain Dealer beat writer Brian Windhorst is reporting today.
That's all well and good for Izzo, the Cavs and Gilbert. But you have to wonder, if Izzo makes the jump to the NBA, will any of the MSU professors, who average about $98,000 in salary and $130,000 in total compensation a year start thinking they wasted those 10 years in college studying valence electrons and the Ideal Gas Law (you remember, PV=nRT, where the constant, now named R, is the gas constant with a value of 8.314472(15) J·K-1·mol-1) and apply?
After all, Ps and Vs and nRTs aren't that far removed from Xs and Os.
And by the way, Ohio State University professors average about $126,000, according to USA Today.