Barry Alvarez receives a Pay-Raise for Rose Bowl
By now everyone knows that Barry Alvarez is taking the reins for Bielma for the Rose Bowl, however this story came out yesterday.
Barry's back, and he's not working for free.....
Alvarez will receive $195,000 in December, which is 90 percent of Bielema's monthly coaching salary. He will also get $8,500, which is 10 percent of his athletic director salary. The total pay of $203,500 is a one-time $118,500 increase in his monthly salary.
Nevermind the fact that he's the 6th highest paid AD in the country, and earns about 1 million a year, I guess he needed more to coach this one game.
Link: http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/67733/alvarez-to-earn-118500-f…
AD Salary: http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/34926/smith-alvarez-among-high…
December 12th, 2012 at 10:37 PM ^
demanded a raise.
December 12th, 2012 at 10:38 PM ^
December 12th, 2012 at 10:50 PM ^
It's a bit dubious to appoint yourself to a job that comes with a substantial cash bonus. In other words, it's a big deal if you suspect the decision is not in the interests of Wisconsin football but rather of Barry's bank account.
I don't really have a problem with it (not that I care at all), but it's conceivable that some would.
December 12th, 2012 at 11:03 PM ^
you gotta do it yourself.
I doubt there are many who think anyone better can coach Wisconsin in the rose bowl on such short notice. Man does two jobs, man gets paid for two jobs
December 12th, 2012 at 11:30 PM ^
I think that's a good point. It would be easy to say "Oh look, he hired himself!" except for the fact that Badger fans absolutely love the hire. In this case, I'd have to say he's actually picked the right guy for the job rather than he's exploiting his position to make bank. I mean, maybe it's the same thing ... maybe it's not. But I can guarantee Badger fans are more excited about the Rose Bowl now than they were with Bielema at the helm.
December 13th, 2012 at 6:04 AM ^
December 12th, 2012 at 10:41 PM ^
The man has got to feed his family.
December 12th, 2012 at 10:44 PM ^
Maybe he has kids in college like Les Miles. Needed that raise.
December 12th, 2012 at 10:48 PM ^
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?
December 13th, 2012 at 12:10 PM ^
Well, people do it all the time. In fact, I'm doing it right now.
I recently started a new job, but my replacement for my old job hasn't been named yet. In the interim, I'm doing both. And believe me, I'm not getting two paychecks!
I don't think it is wrong or unfiar, but in a FOIA world, all this stuff will come to light, and it will never play well.
Also, I can think of lots of situations where someone has taken an interim role for $1 while a permanent replacement is found. Certainly seems to be the classier/high road approach.
December 13th, 2012 at 1:08 PM ^
because he wasn't good enough at job #1 (keeping a successful head football coach at his school).
He's getting a raise because he f'd up.
December 12th, 2012 at 10:50 PM ^
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.
December 13th, 2012 at 7:14 PM ^
This. I'll never work for free unless it's charity. I told my dad I was going to do an unpaid internship in college. He called me a dumbass, said they'd make me their bitch for nothing and to find something real to do. If I'm not getting paid, I'm not doing it. Why should they benefit from my work?
December 12th, 2012 at 10:52 PM ^
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".
December 12th, 2012 at 10:56 PM ^
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.
December 12th, 2012 at 11:06 PM ^
December 12th, 2012 at 11:13 PM ^
it's a fair point, but nonetheless: why penny pinch 6 months ago over a few 100k and then not now?
December 13th, 2012 at 12:26 AM ^
December 12th, 2012 at 11:04 PM ^
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.
December 13th, 2012 at 1:59 AM ^
Alvarez isn't actually coaching, he's CEOing and playing the figurehead to deflect attention away from the team and allow them to prepare
December 13th, 2012 at 2:08 AM ^
So he's taking nearly a full coach's salary to be a figurehead and still not conduct a coaching search?
December 13th, 2012 at 2:16 AM ^
well, he's conducting a search, just a spectacularly fucktastic one in which he's probably going to end up up with Dave Clawson
December 12th, 2012 at 11:04 PM ^
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.
December 13th, 2012 at 2:39 AM ^
That's the difference between being a student and being a professional.
December 13th, 2012 at 7:20 AM ^
December 13th, 2012 at 7:24 AM ^
Ball's also getting a free college education. Don't forget that.
December 13th, 2012 at 7:18 PM ^
So you mean to tell me that colleges just pluck random people off the streets and give them free college educations? These guys don't do anything for the schools? I'll be damned.
December 12th, 2012 at 11:14 PM ^
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.
December 13th, 2012 at 12:29 AM ^
December 13th, 2012 at 7:23 AM ^
Bielema cited low pay for the assistants as a factor in his departure. It does seem a little odd then for Alvarez to pocket some extra cash right after that.
December 12th, 2012 at 11:25 PM ^
December 12th, 2012 at 11:28 PM ^
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.
December 12th, 2012 at 11:46 PM ^
must be nice to make $200,000 in a month as a side job.....
December 12th, 2012 at 11:53 PM ^
December 12th, 2012 at 11:54 PM ^
December 13th, 2012 at 12:55 AM ^
i have never seen a more unrelated post hijack than this. Just saying, no offense
December 13th, 2012 at 1:08 AM ^
December 12th, 2012 at 11:59 PM ^
it seems like a dickhead thing to do
December 13th, 2012 at 12:43 AM ^
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.
December 13th, 2012 at 1:28 AM ^
So, Alvarez just got to stroke his ego and fill his wallet at the same time? Great work if you can get it...
December 13th, 2012 at 2:36 AM ^
I've never understood the love for Barry Alvarez. The guy was a mediocre Big Ten coach.
December 13th, 2012 at 2:39 AM ^
December 13th, 2012 at 3:18 AM ^
Wisconsin was basically Indiana when he took over.
December 13th, 2012 at 7:25 AM ^
Wisconsn was a perennial loser with few fans when he arrived. Now they're a perennial league contender and Camp Randall is sold out every week. He is their Bo Schembechler.
December 13th, 2012 at 8:57 PM ^
This is definitely one of the most untrue statements ever
December 13th, 2012 at 3:33 AM ^
I look forward to exploring the pay structure of the new head football coach and his assistants at Wisconsin.
December 13th, 2012 at 6:25 AM ^
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.
December 13th, 2012 at 8:44 AM ^
December 13th, 2012 at 7:37 AM ^
I wish I got paid extra when I did two jobs at once. My salary would be doubled every month.