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the team did not win a game until the final day o f the season. The next morning, the coach, Norries Wilson, was fired. He finished with a record of 1 7-43 in six seasons. For decades, the football team has been at best a punch line and at worst an object of scorn. Last w eek, the Columbia Spectator, the campus newspaper, ran a column questioning whether the team should exist at all, painting the program as antithetical to the university’s academic values. Jim Pagels, one of the newspaper’s sports editors, said the views did not represent the majority of the student body, but that the football team in hi s view was indeed marginalized. “There is not a re al resentment or a call to disband the football te am,” he said. “But I think in general there is wid espread apathy and indifference.” Taken together, these factors might at first glanc e afford Murphy’s search a measure of quaintness. Yet, there are indications that the vacant job — t hough lacking in outward glamour — might be an une xpectedly enviable one. The average salary for the head coaches of Columbi a’s 14 men’s teams last year was $93,984, accordin g to a report from the United States Department of Education. The same report showed the university had spent $2,670,238 — far less than Meyer’s new a nnual salary — to cover the combined expenses of t he entire football program. The football coach, however, is compensated at a l evel comparable to senior administration officials and top faculty members, according to people fami liar with the program, and his base salary is actu ally closer to $250,000. Other benefits can includ e an apartment in Manhattan and assistance in enro lling a coach’s children in the competitive, unive rsity-run elementary school on the Upper West Side.
And the bonuses, many say, run deeper than that. “The perks in the Ivy League are more intangible t han they are material,” said Tom Beckett, the athl etic director at Yale. “The perks and salaries at these other big schools, that’s not going to happe n. But there are wonderful things that do happen.” Ivy League universities emphasize the prestige of their institutions to coaching candidates. This ye ar, Columbia was No. 4 in U.S. News and World Repo rt’s annual ranking of national universities, and people at the university consider its alumni netwo rk to be particularly strong. The athletic department in 2007 received pledges o f $10 million from William V. Campbell, the chairm an of the board of Intuit, and $5 million from Rob ert K. Kraft, the chairman of the Kraft Group and the owner of the New England Patriots. Both played football at Columbia. Campbell is also the chairm an of Columbia’s trustees, giving the team a power ful advocate on campus. “Even successful alums from other areas of the sch ool don’t have the same affinity for the school th at athletes do,” said Jake Novak, a senior produce r at Fox Business who chronicles Columbia athletic s on a widely read blog. “They can open so many do ors for a coach and give him entree into a differe nt world in New York.” Novak and others said that for a savvy coach, the Columbia job was a sparkling opportunity. The admi nistration has shown a new commitment to athletics , as evidenced by recent increases in operating bu dgets, the opening next year of a new primary faci lity for the athletics department and efforts to h elp athletes in areas like class scheduling. “Fifteen years ago, there was a long list of thing
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