Barry Alvarez receives a Pay-Raise for Rose Bowl

demanded a raise.

I don't see the big deal here. He's doing two jobs right? So wouldn't you expect to get paid accordingly?

The man has got to feed his family.

I do not see the problem here. He will be working two jobs until the bowl game (for those keeping track: 1] Wisco AD 2] Wisco HC). Why should his pay not be commensurate with his duties? Would any of you take on an entire 2nd job and do it for free? 

You're kind of a sucker if you just sign on to do more work for nothing. I don't really see an issue with this. He has to get back into coach mode to prepare for Stanford and deal with whatever he needs to do as AD over this month span. He should be compensated accordingly. 

This reminds me of that movie scene in Horrible Bosses where Jason Bateman's boss (Kevin Spacey) announces that he's promoting himself and only taking 50-60% of the pay raise "for the good of the company".

I don't think it's that big of a deal.

except for the fact that he wouldn't pay Beilema's assistants a few extra 100K per year, but will take a couple 100K for himself for 3 fucking weeks work.

You know, if I were a Wisconsin fan, I'd probably be more interested in seeing Alvarez conduct a coaching search than playing coach himself for a few weeks.  People are suggesting that he deserves the pay for doing two jobs, but I find it hard to believe he's actually doing two jobs' worth of work, considering what 99% of ADs in his situation would be doing.

Someone on Twitter said this, but for his bowl duties Alvarez gets $200K and Montee Ball gets a watch and a backpack. Fuck this racket.

I'm surprised no one else has voiced the thought that it seems like he does get paid plenty (pays himself, even...), but a year ago, assistant coaches were fleeing... And they were after more money, no?  Seems bizarre to throw lots of money at the AD and too little money at the assistant coaches.

Then I remember how much Bielema was getting paid, and now I'm undecided what my opinion is, again.

Pay the players god damnit

Remember how odd we all thought it was that Lloyd Carr somehow made friends with Russell Crowe?  Well Lloyd wasn't the only B1G coach who was making the rounds in Cali back in the day.  And when you party with with these guys you need to bring it - Barry probably just needed the money to pay for his upcoming bar bill during the trip to socal.

must be nice to make $200,000 in a month as a side job.....

Ever notice that Tyler Zeller looks like our own Nik Stauskas?

it seems like a dickhead thing to do

football team was DB Troy Vincent.....and that was about it.

Those were the early years under Barry Alvarez, and then they started to kick ass.

Hope the Badgers do as well in the Rose Bowl as they did vs. Nebraska.

So, Alvarez just got to stroke his ego and fill his wallet at the same time?  Great work if you can get it...

I've never understood the love for Barry Alvarez.  The guy was a mediocre Big Ten coach.

I look forward to exploring the pay structure of the new head football coach and his assistants at Wisconsin.

These guys never miss an opportunity. One month of  quasi work nets an extra $200,000. There is no way he can do BOTH jobs, the demands are two great, so he'll end up half assing them both....

What a fuckin racket.

I wish I got paid extra when I did two jobs at once.  My salary would be doubled every month.

...a statue of himself every day when he gets out of his convertible in the parking lot. The extra $$$ for coaching the Rose Bowl could be a ruse to raise money for another statue. If there's one rule I live by, it is to have no bounds on the amount of statues erected in one's honor.

He's not double dipping - if the poster's info is correct, he's taking only 10% of his usual AD salary and 90% of the old coach's salary.  Rough math says this setup saves the University about $100,000 this month versus the old status quo.   Could he take less - sure.  But this seems fair.  Perhaps his estimation was he would be spending 90% of his time this month coaching, or being a figurehead, or whatever you want to call it, and 10% as AD.

That is all.

Not taking sides in politics here, but with all of the attention on Lansing this week, and all of the attention in Madison last year, isn't the pay level of public employees kind of a tender issue right now? Does someone have asbestos underwear up there?

The USA Today story doesn't add much, but it does mention this regarding the temporary raise:

"The money for the coaching job will come out of Bielema's $1 million buyout to be paid by Arkansas."

If that's correct, then he is being paid (mostly, anyway) with money owed to the school, not necessarily straight from the budget (save for the percentage of his salary perhaps, which would be in the budget), so it isn't necessarily hurting their progress on finding a replacement for Bielema or shorting someone or something vital to the program. That being said, I have to wonder if it might be a different arrangement - from a monetary standpoint - if they weren't expecting the buyout money from Arkansas.

Like others, I don't really have an issue with someone being compensated to do two jobs on a temporary basis, especially since it probably means his some horrific hours for the next few weeks more than likely.

I'm not questioning the legitimacy of the pay, but I simply can't imagine working for a month at something and earning enough money during that time to pay off my house in its entirety.  Blows my mind. 

If he's only devoting 10% of his time to the AD job, then isn't there some assistant AD that deserves $100k or so for December.



Just realized I didn't check whether some else made the same comment.