Outback Bowl Director/President/CEO makes over $1 Million per year

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thetrza

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The story is making the rounds today, the Outback Bowl director has been running the game for over thirty years but it isn't one of the top ten bowl games by revenue earned or other measurements. The huge compensation brings up controversies over player compensations, amateur athletics, corruption in the bowl system, and other things.




At least the fans get a discount on an appetizer the day after based on who wins the game.
 
Capitalism at it's finest... The part about him pulling the move coaches make about throwing rumors of interest in other jobs out there is BS. If I'm those board members in Tampa I'd call his bluff and hope he'd go. They could save almost half what they were paying him to get same job done... But they are lazy and since the $ is there to be paid who cares right? So long as everybodies pockets involved are full and they are happy who is anyone else to bitch about it?
 
trj said:
can't knock the hustle.
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Yep, no doubt. That's the thing about non-profits or ventures like bowl games. There aren't any stockholders to answer to and when the organization has cash windfalls, they gotta go somewhere.

I would surmise running the Outback Bowl is a pretty good gig. Over the long haul, you gotta manage 7 contracts, the one with the B1G, the one with the SEC, the one with ESPN, the one with the stadium, the one with the concession guys who run the stands at the stadium, the one with Outback and the one with the merchandisers. Prolly got a make a few calls in August to harangue the local motels into making sure they'll have blocks of room for the rubes, err, tourists, from Iowa, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania or Michigan who will be coming down. And I'll bet there are a handful of employees who actually do the substantive work. Being the "manager" of that operation prolly entails something like 200-400 hours of work a year.
 
Gary Barta must've negotiated that contract with the Outback Bowl director.

Here in Nashville, the Nashville Sports Council CEO makes just under $500k, but this includes all Nashville sporting events, outside of the Predators/Titans.

SEC basketball tournament
Music City Bowl
Various neutral site basketball and football games
 
I thought it was "all about the kids"????

Look at executive pay for the endless amount of non profits that invade our e-mails, cell phones, sporting events, etc. They are tear-jerker stories connected to some worthy causes, problem is, huge amount goes into the wrong pockets. It "takes a village" to raise a crook. They CEO pay is justified to the boards because they share each other's pay and benefits numbers with each other every year to justify yet again, another raise.

Bowl games are a racket for the "haves"...players should strike, demand 50% go into a fund to support former players with the injuries, future, etc. Wait, I guess you would have to hire a million dollar CEO to "run" this new non profit?
 
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