| Show Question of Coach For Football T Team earn Arises After Game I I Consideration of Accepted Resignation of Coach FitzPatrick Fitzpatrick Fitz- Fitz pa Patrick trick Develops Fact Th That Salary of University Coach io in ill Not Comparable With That of Coaches Coach s of Other Universities Universities Considerable ties Considerable Considerable Increase mended BY STEPHEN L. L KERR HO will coach the 1923 University of Utah football WHO v team With the passing of the victorious 1922 season that question has come squarely squarely to the front As is well wen known to University s students our present coach Tommy Fitzpatrick has handed in ih his to take effect at the close of the present school year and the Board of Regents has already accepted the resignation The writer feels frankly dubious dubious' about the coaching problem The root of or tho the whole matter Is financial If It the tho University were financially able to pay an attractive o f salary JaT for an athletic athletic athletic ath ath- letic Instructor the tho problem would bo be relatively easy of or solution But if it this were the tho case the tho coaching problem would probably not exist Inasmuch as the tho present coach has resigned largely large large- ly Iy f fir t financial reasons Tho The writer Is convinced that a long string of ot humiliating defeats or at nt best questionable successes lies ahead of or the University of or Utah despite the spirit and ambition of Its Us students and faculty acutt members unless unless- enough h money money money mon mon- ey Is set to engage and retain tho the services of or- or oran an athletic director who has demonstrated his ability Salaries Compared Compare In recent years Utah has been absolutely absolutely absolutely ab ab- stingy towards Its coach Tho The Thos s salary tary of ot Coach TommY Fitzpatrick after aCter years of ot service for the Institution institution tion In incidentally tho the most successful this school years ears on the whole that has ever enjoyed today receives only 2400 a year Though Utah Is one ono of the largest If ir not tho the largest institution institution In enrollment in the tho Rocky Mountain conference or In the neighboring neighboring neighboring neigh neigh- boring region it pays by far Car the tho smallest smallest smallest small small- est salary Even the tho high schools pay more Tho The writer reter has gathered some somo facts I relative to coaches coaches' salaries which he thinks will prove provo little short of ot astonishing astonishing astonishing as as- to students here hero who contrast contrast contrast con con- the tho amounts paid with the tho compensation compensation compensation com com- given their own coach Denver Denver Denver Den Den- ver University pays Coach Murphy for the tho football season alone the tho University of ot Colorado pays pas Coach Witham for tho the football and basketball seasons the tho Colorado School of or Mines pays Coach Capshaw I for tho the entire year and grants an assistant in football at 1500 Colorado Colorado Col Col- cOI 1 orado College pa pays s 's Coach Meade 53 3 3 per year and it is only his first year eal in Intercollegiate late sports Coach CoachI Hughes of the Colorado A. A C. C receives I for the tho f football and track seasons sea sea- seasons sons and Is paid 2000 additional for or orI managing tho the school cafeteria Coach I Mathews l of the University of or Idaho receives under his pre present ent contract and respectively respective respective- ly b for three succeeding years ears Co Coach ch Bagshaw of or the University of or Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington Is paid and 5 for three succeeding years Ott Romney receives for his first year ear In Montana and Mitt Romney receives for or his first year ear In Texas lexas 5 All the foregoing coaches work under year three-year contracts Coaches McIntyre and Christenson receive 2600 and 2800 respectively at the West high school Coach Peterson Peterson Peter Peter- son at the L. L D. D S. S U. U receives 2600 and Coach Conch Worthman gets 2400 for or his first year at nt the East high school Pay ay Too Little When It is remembered that the tho University has worried along with the service of ot only one varsity coach for or orall all its athletics If wo we except the tho aid given Ilven by Coach Prince during the tho past football sell season on It becomes apparent how v poorly we have havo paid for the brilliant bril bril- leant results demanded Our Important Important Im Im- portent rivals in the Rock Rocky Mountain conference for the most part employ two and even three varsity coaches conches to train their teams and at the same samo time grant rant far better compensation to their head coaches If It we had been doing likewise e during the past few years we could have expected even better results than wo we have ave received But as matters havo have stood our coach single-handed single and underpaid has loyally JoY ll given his best efforts for tor forthe tho the Institution When his handicaps are remembered no one can well wen deny teny the success of or his efforts Assuming charge hero at a a. time when tho the war had shattered our teams to a far greater degree than th it had any of or o our r rivals ho he has welded together organizations organizations or or- which have hao brought to us repeated championships In toot foothill football basketball track and baseball cul cul- culminating In our recent glorious and cut clear football championship of the Rocky Hocky Mountain conference No Xo Coach el Available And now that Fitzpatrick has re resigned re- re I signed what are arc wo we going to do for tor a I first class coach Have Havo we any reason rea rea- reason son to believe that we can obtain a tried and proven man for 2400 a year If It so where Is he coming from 7 Do wo we seriously expect to draw dra a good I Instructor from one of our rival In Institutions Institutions In- In I where far more money Is paid If so do we think that ho he will willbe willbe be willing to work without two or three assistants in football and at least one separate coach to take basketball basketball bas baa or track off his hands The answer to all these questions is noCa no Ca Can 1 wo we then unsatisfactory as such sucha n a course courso would be prevail upon some somo tried high school coach to take up our burden giving up a paid better-paid Job to accept ono one with us where he hc can expect expect expect ex ex- 2400 a year ear at tho the end of or his fifth fUth year of service Of at course not What are we 0 going to do then then then- then then-I employ some somo recent graduate graduato who who would have ha to boss the very men men who not long ago played with him Tho sum mentioned might lo look k at attractive at- at to a young oung fellow who has had no training for such a position and cc not ccmmand the confidence of hl his hie m men n hut but his employment as ais coach o ei would not add much to our athletic prestige When m eft Cann in f i to the tho University five years yeans carli age n o lie he several veral jf yf ie possessed o y yea yea-s as once as a very successful high school coach cO rc c was not Hc c upon c luJon to coach lach any man who haJ hai ever er played with him But Rut even then ho he faced handicaps because he was a young man Players will always be lie found who I think they know more moro than the coach and for that reason renson it is a hard matter matter matter mat mat- ter for a young coach to enforce dl di cI- cI pline Fitzpatrick met that situation here and by repeated repented demonstrations of oC his ability overcame It until now It may be said that every man on tho the football squad this fall nil possessed whole-hearted whole confidence in his coach Beginners Ik Handicapped An Any new coach who comes to Utah from rom a high school or indeed any young man at all all will have ha to pass through the samo mo experience that I Fitzpatrick has passed through Ho II will have to prove his ability to his I Imen I men if it he has it It and will have havo to enforce discipline before he can i hops opo to win success Would such a course course I lc fair fall to the students it f this school The Tho writer thinks It would not Toda Today vie v aro are at the he hl of our ver pulver in the realm of or college Hp sports an and anan an abundance of material makes th thu future futuro fu- fu IU turo ture appear mo-i mo alluring To Ir ng In a new coach at time wio would accept the tho Hilary aary n would delay our pro s until that j Low v ci coach could In 1 e edit j down clown prejudice dice prove himself and improve him self Such a n. course would destroy our brilliant prospects and set us Ul back five years ears Speaking as a student of this school and a U man in athletics the writer believes that that should not be done by an any means If It tho the University authorities authorities In In Including eluding the Board of Regents the tho President and tho the Athletics Council Council- can see ec ee a way to bring to this school an older man who has hns had man ninny many years cars of or success as an intercollegiate coach and with him a corps cors of or assistants everybody will be bo happy and practically I cally no ono one can object But that course will necessitate an outlay or of five or six thousand dollars a a. year as the tho very minimum for tor the head coach and several thousand more for his assIstant assistant assistant as as- coaches In no other way II could we wo get such an experienced man Fairness to Fitzpatrick But If Ir the school authorities can not accomplish the foregoing change let them therm do that which will wUl be fair to the theman theman theroan man roan who has given his best to the University of or Utah and at the thO same sam time be bo fair to the students here who de desire lre that our teams fairly represent our size and h importance As the tho writer sees secs It that course is js to offer Fitzpatrick his old Job at a considerable consider r- r able Increase In salary even If It tho the additional additional ad ad- amount must como conic from subscriptions sub sub- among tho the students and andI I alumni until tho University t finds Itself in a better financial position Members of oC the tho football team are aro retention retention reten reten- circulating a petition for the tion of or Fitzpatrick as coach That shows hows how the P U mentor stands with his 1118 men The They arc are tho the bo boys who wOn the Rocky Mountain Conference championship for Utah and If U the they want their coach lack back that much and expect continued continue l success under print the students of or t this lis cis school should get gel behind and an let Jet ev cv everyone Tone concerned know that they want him too The Tho writer remembers when Nelson II Norgren former coach here herc found even a larger salary insufficient and resigned So strongly did the students support him that his salary salaT was increased to a year fifty per cent as us much again as Fitzpatrick receives and that at a time when money was worth much more moro In buyinG buying buying buy buy- ing power than it Is today In conclusion the following points First University can canno canno canno seem peem plain this thin no lon longer er obtain a trained and able coach for the tho it Il has been paying secondly It does doos not seem at all probable probable probable able that the tho school Is able to pay tho marked Increase in salary necessary necessary necessary sary to draw a successful coach ol or more mature years from tram some other college and thirdly If Ir a moderate and reasonable Increase Is to be made asis as 88 asIs that increase Is absolutely should be offered to the tho man who has raised University athletics to the present present pres pres- ent high level levet and who enjoys the confidence of all nil concerned It is reported that Fitzpatrick has been offered positions by three separate separate separate sep sep- arate Colorado schools at substantial increases over his present salary here so if Utah wants to keep leep him here Immediate action Is required The writer believes every student should hould sl sign n the petition to keep keel him here |
