University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank swung at her administrative colleagues at Ohio State and Michigan by expressing her displeasure with the high salaries of the institutions’ head football coaches.
In an interview with USA TODAY regarding college football coaches’ salaries, Blank said the lucrative contracts of Jim Harbaugh at Michigan and Urban Meyer at Ohio State, saying they resemble professional contracts.
“Those are the choices they make,” Blank said. “That really begins to threaten the whole sense that we are not professional athletic teams. I’m not terribly happy about the fact that they made those choices.