re: Fifteen Houston- area HS football coaches make at least $100k

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That's simply not true. I've coached at the middle school level the last 3 years as a side job/just to help out. The coaches go to all the same meetings, teach for 5-6 class periods, plus put in 3-4 hours of board work/film study/weights/on field practice time. Then go home and do all the same lesson planning/grading papers that other teachers bitch about when saying, "It's more than a 7-3 job!!!!" They coach at least 2 sports as well, so they coach pretty much the entire school year. Then they are at the school 3 days a week for 4-5 hours for weights/conditioning during the summer. They deserve to make more than other teachers, period.

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Read the previous posts. It had been deduced that the coaches in this particular article, most likely do NOT teach any classes. I agree that coaches that teach should make more than people who only teach. However, in this particular case for a person who ONLY coaches football to make more than twice what a teacher makes is somewhat absurd.

As a former coach myself, I understand the time commitment that most of these guys make. I understand the summer workouts and film sessions. I understand that it is not a 3 month job with 2-4 hours a day for practice.

I am just stating that I don't see a reason there should be THAT much of a disparity.

As for the coaches who don't do much, I was referring to the coaches that "teach" in the sense that they have four PE classes that they watch each day. Those are the coaches I that don't do near as much work as the average teacher.