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

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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 teaches 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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This.

I've worked with plenty of high school coaches before to know that there are many night's where I woudn't get a phone call for a quote in a story until 2-3 a.m. because they just finished watching film to know what to look for on Saturday when the actual players come in.

That's not counting the other sport that 90 percent of the staff has to coach in the off-season of football, the practice time or the 25 or so days that coaches are basically volunteering to work in the summer for workout programs and 7-on-7.