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I know Texans take their football seriously and I can respect that, but this seems a bit excessive for programs that directly involve at most a couple of hundred teenage boys. Y'all must pay horrendous property taxes!

https://www.theguardian.com/sp...school-football-katy


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Excessive is not a word in the average Texan's vocabulary, especially as it relates to football. Wink


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Not even as it relates to taxes, Charlie?

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Well, my prop. taxes on the house I live in on about 86 acres are quite a bit less than $2000/yr with an ag exemption on the land, which really doesn't save that much.

On the new house, a much larger and nicer house on 206 acres with ag exempt are less than $5000/yr. I dunno how that compares to Oregon or anywhere but "excessive" doesn't seem to apply, but we don't have a multi-million dollar football stadium either.

Considering the amount I've paid to the US Treasury over the years, well into 6 figures, "excessive" would apply IMO.


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My property taxes here in NH are a near exponent of yours Charlie.....and I'm on 2 acres. That said, NH ranks at or near the bottom of total tax burden of all states. The taxes on my small business are obscene however.

PS.....I love football too!
 
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I think the bigger problem is that our educational system places too much attention on athletics and not enough on actual education.

Only so many High School athletes will get scholarships to play sports of any kind in college.


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My property taxes here in NH are a near exponent of yours Charlie.....and I'm on 2 acres. That said, NH ranks at or near the bottom of total tax burden of all states. The taxes on my small business are obscene however.

PS.....I love football too!


I told my son that HS football would disappear in the next twenty years if they don't fix the brain injury problem. He, a smart, ex-HS tackle, disagreed. I think his brain has been affected already. Smiler

AFA ad val taxes go, I pay them in at least 3 states. They seem to average about 1% of what I would actually value property at. While not cheap, I don't think it is onerous either. They can be and usually are excessive when a new oil/gas field comes in. Minerals are separate from real estate in Texas and taxed by the well. Mad

I don't think, I know that most HS ISD's (Independent School District in Texas, usually the most costly part of Ad Val taxes), place way too much emphasis on other things besides learning but, in Texas, most ISDs are run by a school board which is locally elected from ISD residents who are usually quite responsive to local input and, believe me, when it comes to local's taxes, they get plenty of it. Much of the excess costs of education are due to Federal Mandates.


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They built the new (2nd) high school here in Liberty Hill to the tune of $82 million + of course the 1st money was spent on a new football stadium. After all the money was spent there is none left for infrastructure + the kids have no lockers.The realtors + tax office seem to be the only ones to benefit.


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We recently sold our home in Salem, Oregon's state capital. It was roughly a 3,000-square-foot home on four tax lots totaling .77 acre, and we paid $375,000 for it. Property taxes were just over $5,000 per year. We also pay state income tax, but Oregon is one of the last states with no sales tax.
That said, I have to wonder what property taxes are on a similar home in the school district in Katy with the new football stadium.


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We recently sold our home in Salem, Oregon's state capital. It was roughly a 3,000-square-foot home on four tax lots totaling .77 acre, and we paid $375,000 for it. Property taxes were just over $5,000 per year. We also pay state income tax, but Oregon is one of the last states with no sales tax.
That said, I have to wonder what property taxes are on a similar home in the school district in Katy with the new football stadium.


http://katyfamilyhomes.com/tax-information/


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FWIW ON THIS TABLE TEXAS IS RANKED 4 SLOTS BELOW
(HIGHER TAX COSTS)OREGON ON TOTAL TAX COSTS......

[url=https://wallethub.com/edu/best-worst-states-to-be-a-taxpayer/2416/#complete[/url]


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We believe in fighting fire with fire. http://nymag.com/daily/intelli...dium-looks-like.html
 
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Typical NY Yankee thinking, "colossal waste of money", humph, his kid probably plays soccer.


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My property taxes here in NH are a near exponent of yours Charlie.....and I'm on 2 acres. That said, NH ranks at or near the bottom of total tax burden of all states. The taxes on my small business are obscene however.

PS.....I love football too!


I told my son that HS football would disappear in the next twenty years if they don't fix the brain injury problem. He, a smart, ex-HS tackle, disagreed. I think his brain has been affected already. Smiler

AFA ad val taxes go, I pay them in at least 3 states. They seem to average about 1% of what I would actually value property at. While not cheap, I don't think it is onerous either. They can be and usually are excessive when a new oil/gas field comes in. Minerals are separate from real estate in Texas and taxed by the well. Mad

I don't think, I know that most HS ISD's (Independent School District in Texas, usually the most costly part of Ad Val taxes), place way too much emphasis on other things besides learning but, in Texas, most ISDs are run by a school board which is locally elected from ISD residents who are usually quite responsive to local input and, believe me, when it comes to local's taxes, they get plenty of it. Much of the excess costs of education are due to Federal Mandates.


I am surprised parents still let their boys play football to the degree they do.

It would be akin to letting their kids shoot without ear protection.

Grown men can choose what to do in their life and the risks to take. I am fine with that. But taking some kid and subjecting him to brain injury on a small shot of NFL fame is just wrong. Now the data is there - it's a hard fact - the impact of brains injuries from football is real.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...m_term=.e6a27ddfa6c8

https://www.theverge.com/2017/...all-cognition-health

Now I may get banned from Texas - my favorite state.

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Now I may get banned from Texas - my favorite state.


But hey, you've got great taste in states.


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I am surprised parents still let their boys play football to the degree they do.

It would be akin to letting their kids shoot without ear protection.

Grown men can choose what to do in their life and the risks to take. I am fine with that. But taking some kid and subjecting him to brain injury on a small shot of NFL fame is just wrong. Now the data is there - it's a hard fact - the impact of brains injuries from football is real.


Hard for me to believe as well. Frankly, while we certainly didn't push our son to play football, it's a small town and school and there was/is a lot of pressure on the kids to try out and play if they can, BUT with the new stats on brain injuries, I think parents would be INSANE to allow their kids to play. I certainly wouldn't. Life is a long game, football is a short part of it.


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Indeed. My middle son just HAD to play in his senior year.No brain trauma but pins in his shoulder from now on.


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Well, it paid for my Grandson's education. No concussions, but he was a kicker.
 
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My brother pulled his 11 yo outta football last year.....he was QB and LB, best player on the team. Great baseball player too so he's concentrating on that instead.

Most NFL players say they would do it again having known the risks ahead of time, but several have quit recently. As someone above mentioned, kids aren't able to make that choice.
 
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Typical NY Yankee thinking, "colossal waste of money", humph, his kid probably plays soccer.



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I grew up in a small town in north central Texas, population of 610.

Only 250 kids in the school and that was grades 1 thru 12 combined.

Played football in 7th. & 8th. grades, set out my Freshman year and was one of the team managers, then played my Sophomore/Junior and Senior years.

During those 3 years I think the most players we ever had was 25 maybe 26 at any one time.

At that time Newcastle still played 11 man football, now they play 6 man. I had fun, only got injured one time, but times changed and athletics became so important, especially for folks hoping that their kids would be good enough to get a scholarship.


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My daughter in law from Mexico City runs training camps for women that do the triathilon,iron man,marothon,etc. She plays soccer (or football by the european + south american designation).When I was a kid in Germany I played 'foosball' or soccer as we call it + they cleaned my clock + this was before I was a smoker.But a college bud did a term in England + played on the Rugby team.Now brothers that is one visious sport.


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As an addendum: during WW2 some general (I have forgotten his name) made a comment to his adjatunt that "I know the reason that we will win this war is because we are a nation of football players fighting a nation of soccer players."


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It only takes a ball and a field. Pelota y campo to play soccer. Football requires hundreds of dollars of equipment to maybe keep your head square.

Those rugby guys are nuts...


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Football versus rugby

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fil...ball-more-dangerous/

The scientific data is clear - football is stupid dangerous for anyone who plays it over time and increasing proficient levels.

People do stupid things. This website is full of people (me included) who way past their prime (and way beyond life expectancy of your historic Hunter gatherer ancestors) do decide to hunt dangerous game. Now we have structured the hunt enough with technology that it is not as dangerous as the marketing pitch for it. Still every year a few unlucky souls paybthe cost of doing business.

We have ar members who use self climbing tree deer stands and ride motorbikes.

All this is all fine for grown men and women to do. But to subject a child to a dangerous activity just to fill some high school stadiums is stupid in my view. Swimming is a much better sport.

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Yeah well.I remember Roy's Rugby game that I saw.Got the lad that had the ball,kicked him in the shins,stole the ball.+ kicked him in the shims in retreat.The lad went down+ Roy was never noticed by the the refs.It was a beautiful play


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We may be the most expensive stadium for a little bit but another one will come.”
—Katy ISD Superintendent Lance Hindt to the Houston Chronicle on Tuesday, shortly before dedicating the district’s new $70.3 million Legacy Stadium. The 12,000-seat stadium is the most expensive high school stadium in the U.S. (for now).


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When you get down to the nut cutting,I don;t give a a shit about the coaches + their futures. I care about my kids + my money.


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When you get down to the nut cutting,I don;t give a a shit about the coaches + their futures. I care about my kids + my money.


Plus 1....seems like HS coaching must be a growing career field. A large percentage of my son's graduating HS class of boys decided to become coaches. Admittedly not a large bunch of kids, but now they all have jobs and are employed by various ISDs here and there in Texas.


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The argument that football is unsafe, I get. It just seems somewhat hypocritical that the ex-players, and others that have made millions off the game are the ones doing a lot of the complaining.

http://bleacherreport.com/arti...m_campaign=editorial

A lot of what normal people do to make a living is inherently dangerous; working in mines, on rigs, in police departments, commercial fishermen, loggers, garbage collectors, construction workers, etc.

I don't have a problem with a poor kid with athletic skills, and absolutely nothing else going for him, trying to improve his lot in life playing a sport that is dangerous, when the general public is willing to pay billions of dollars to watch, and support those teams, and pay the kid hundreds of millions of dollars. What seems a little disingenuous is for that kid to whine later about how the sport hurt him, and he needs compensation, on top of the $200 million dollars he made over the course of his career.

Anyone playing football knows the dangers today. No excuses. Play as long as you want, and quit (your dangerous job) when you feel the time is right.....and that's the hard part. Muhammad Ali couldn't do it.

Greed seems to be the real danger. Hard to turn your back on the money, and the level of admiration and respect that go with it for a pro athlete.
 
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And, if you're a great coach, it pays fairly well.....

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It pays to be in Texas, home of the $98,668 high school football coach
BY MATTHEW MARTINEZ

SEPTEMBER 06, 2017 8:43 AM

Three weeks before the high school football season kicks off, an administrative assistant at Lake Travis High School is juggling phone calls while season ticket holders wait to learn their seat assignments.

Lake Travis played its 2017 season opener in front of an audience that included those watching on Fox Sports Southwest, the first time that the University Interscholastic League (or UIL) allowed live broadcasts of Friday night games.

The Cavaliers are a powerhouse. They won their sixth state title in 2016. In 2011 they became the first team in the history of Texas high school football to win five consecutive state championships.

Five of their state six championships have come under two coaches: Chad Morris, now at SMU, and his successor, Hank Carter, who’s entering his 10th season at the school, which is about 20 miles northwest of Austin.


Carter is the highest-paid high school football coach in Texas, with an annual salary of $155,156. That’s $30,000 more than the principal at Lake Travis and almost triple the average salary of the school’s teachers.

“There’s no doubt Hank Carter is well paid,” Lake Travis Superintendent Brad Lancaster said.

His district is one of the state’s most affluent. The median household income is $103,000 and million-dollar homes dot the shores of Lake Travis.

“I think that’s a little bit market-driven, it’s driven by experience and by accomplishment ... and it also has to do with what this community desires,” Lancaster said. “I think if Hank Carter left Lake Travis under my watch, the community would be wondering whether I was fit to serve.”

Taxpayers in the state’s large suburban school districts are consistently funding six-figure salaries for head football coaches, per records obtained by the Star-Telegram through the state’s Public Information Act.

In June, the Star-Telegram made 205 requests for the salaries of every head football coach and principal at the state’s 5A and 6A schools and with the results created a searchable database to analyze results of the request.

Is it too much?

There are no limits on what Texas high school football coaches can be paid, as long as school boards vote to approve contracts set by administrators.

So how much is too much? It depends who you ask.

“Our society places a lot of value on Friday night lights and our high school football teams,” said Steven Poole, executive director of the United Educators Association, which advocates for teachers in DFW. “I’m hoping someday society places that high of a value on teachers.”

Sue Morton is a retired educator who spent seven years teaching in the Birdville school district and eight in Dallas.

“My vote is yes, that’s too big of a disparity,” Morton said. “Football is made too big a deal of, and the latest example is that big new stadium in Katy. Most people would probably disagree with me, but that’s the way I feel.”

The Katy school district’s Morton Ranch High School is named after her family. The district is home to a new $72 million stadium and the eight-time state champion Katy Tigers, whose coach Gary Joseph earns $133,102.

Statewide, football coaches earn an average of $98,668. The average salary for a high school teacher is $55,221. Principals at the state’s 5A and 6A schools (those with enrollments of 1,100 or more) earn an average of $117,744, according to the Star-Telegram’s analysis.

Suburban areas typically have better performing football teams than their urban counterparts. Salaries are also higher.

With an average salary of $103,566, coaches’ earnings at the state’s biggest suburban schools — those in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Austin and San Antonio areas — are almost double that of the teachers, therapists and nurses who work on campus with them.

DFW suburban football coaches are some of the highest paid in the state, earning $106,619. The Arlington and Hurst-Euless-Bedford school districts pay their coaches just under $110,000.

Talent pool

Administrators say the pool of qualified candidates for head coaches, many of whom are also the athletic coordinators at their campuses, is smaller than the pool of qualified teachers. That drives up the cost for top talent.

“Right now, if I need a third-grade teacher, if I go to HR, I probably have 400 applications on file for people who want to be a third-grade teacher,” said superintendent Tom Leonard of the Eanes school district, where Austin Westlake coach Todd Dodge earns $131,600.

“And I’m not against third-grade teachers. I want to go on record and say that we need to pay teachers more money throughout the state of Texas. But if I need a principal or an AD, my numbers go down significantly, because there’s just not as many people in that pool.”

Dodge is one of 28 coaches in the state who earns more than $120,000 and one of five who earns $130,000 or more. He won four state titles at Southlake Carroll from 2002-06, leading the Dragons to a 79-1 record.

At Lake Travis, Carter puts in more than 80 hours a week during football season. That slows down slightly in the off-season, he says, because of heavy scheduling and hiring duties associated with being his district’s athletic director.

“It’s probably well-deserved,” said Sean McAuliffe, head coach at San Antonio-area power Converse Judson, who is paid $105,320. “With that revenue, I would imagine it’s well worth it. So for the amount of hours that people put in, the compensation should match.”

Westlake’s Dodge also serves as his district’s athletic director.

Superintendents at both districts said the dual role of their football coaches allows them to save money because they’re not paying another administrator.

Fans of North Texas powers Southlake Carroll and Aledo may be surprised to find that their coaches’ salaries are not in that top tier of pay.

Carroll’s Hal Wasson, in his 29th year as a head coach, earns $115,126. Wood, in his fourth year as head coach of the Bearcats, might be one of the biggest bargains in the state at $95,003.

“Steve is underpaid. I know that,” said former Aledo coach and current athletic director Tim Buchanan. “But at the same time, our teachers are underpaid. Aledo is a school district that doesn’t have a whole lot of extra money to spend on salaries.”

Neither Wood nor Wasson are athletic directors, and neither like to spend their days quibbling over how much they’re getting paid. Wasson said he started at $88,000 when he came to Southlake Carroll in 2007. Buchanan said he first heard of a coach’s salary eclipsing $40,000 in 1983 when Doug Etheridge moved from Port Neches-Grove to Round Rock.

“Do I think coaches are overpaid? Absolutely not,” Wasson said. “Ask anyone to hang around with us and see the hours we keep, and they’d know right away.”

Revenue generators

The top teams in Texas bring revenue back to their schools.

Playoff teams share gate receipts from their games, after expenses and after the UIL, or governing body, takes its cut, either 16 percent for playoff games or 20 percent for the state championship. More than 245,000 people watched the state championships at AT&T Stadium in 2016.

“How much does the football program’s gate do for our other sports?” asked Lancaster, the Lake Travis superintendent. “We get 50- or 60-grand checks for just playing in the state championship game, the last two years in a row.”

But for Lancaster, neither that revenue generation nor the economy of high school football really gets at the reason for the pay disparity between a football coach and a teacher.

“If you’re the English III teacher at the high school, and you’re making $55,000 a year, you work very hard,” Lancaster said. “Can I say that the football coach that makes 100-, 110- or 120-grand works twice as hard as you? No.

“Kindergarten teachers, high school teachers, or, to put it on more equal footing, head band directors, all work extremely hard, but they don’t make the same amount of money, and I don’t think that at face value you can give a satisfactory explanation for that.

“It’s a market-driven pay differential.”


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I used to coach Little League Baseball. One of my star players was our catcher, Terry Gambill. Terry is now head football coach at Allen High School in Texas. I'm sure Terry is making north of 100 grand a year. He is a very fine young man, brought up by a very fine Mom and Dad.
High School coaching in Texas is a year round 80 hour work week.
I won't get into the teacher-coach argument, as you can't win either way.
A middle school teacher saw how my Grandson kicked a soccer ball and pushed him to kick for the football team. It lead him to college ball by way of a full scholarship, a couple All American teams, one of the 3 Lou Groza nominees one year, one alltime NCAA kicking record, and tied 2 others.
It was all because of a middle school teacher. Josh has never forgotten her and arranged tickets for any games that she could attend.
Good teachers and coaches can have a real positive influence on our young people.
 
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