So, Clemson University head football coach Tommy Bowden has lost his job. He'll get to cry all the way to the bank with his $3.5 million golden parachute.
We really need to take a look at our priorities in this country, when coaches who can't win a conference championship in 10 years walk away rich by any South Carolina standard, yet many South Carolina students can't afford a college education, or go deeply into debt to get one.
Tuition for a bachelor's degree at Clemson is currently about $10,000 a year, or $40,000 for the four-year program. Bowden's bonus for missing his MBO would pay for Clemson undergraduate degrees for 87 young people.
Strange priorities for a state with one of the lowest rates of college education, and one of the lowest per-capita incomes in the country.
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