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Coaches overpaid

Fri., Dec. 14, 2018

State university football coaches being the highest-paid state employees is absurd. Football-loving taxpayers have looked me in the eye and decried this or that tax, all while defending the obscene salaries of coaches, who, by the way, simply try to move a ball down a field.

As a taxpayer, I am opposed and appalled at these salary-plus-incentive rates. Put down the Kool-aid, and pay these guys a normal state university professors/instructors salary, nationwide.

Steve LaCombe

Spokane Valley

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