Winthrop coach to get big pay increase?

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In recent days, Winthrop head men's basketball coach Gregg Marshall, whose photo appears with this blog post, has been testing the waters to see what he can get and where he might get it.

We're talking big money here.

Currently, the extremely successful Marshall is the highest paid employee at Winthrop University, raking in about $225,000 a year, according to a recent USA Today report.

But because other schools--such as the University of South Florida and the University of New Mexico--have been courting Marshall, look for the popular coach (seven Big South Conference titles in nine years) to get a whopping pay raise.

Already the talk is that it will take at least $400,000 a year to keep him at Winthrop--a place where the president makes a yearly salary of about $150,000 and deans get from $110,000 to about $130,000. Departmental administrative assistants, who used to be called secretaries, earn in the range of $20,000-$25,000 a year. Winthrop's highest paid tenured full professors pull in about $85,000 a year, and many professors earn less than that. Groundskeepers get... (Okay, get the picture?)

Will Gregg Marshall stay, or will he go?

And how will rank and file Winthrop employees--faculty and staff--react if he is increased to $400,000.

What will Winthrop's students think?

For more intriguing background on this situation, read Gary McCann's column--from the March 25, 2007 edition of The (Rock Hill) Herald--in the above link.