@kate in 28 of 50 states, a college football coach is the highest-paid state employee! in 12 states it's a college basketball coach (at least, as of December 2019; I can't find a sourced list of data that's accurate)
the PLAYERS in those sports get paid the following:
replacing all motivational cat posters captioned “hang in there” with this https://twitter.com/crabday/status/1361889463559979008?s=21
FULL BLASEBALL PRESS RELEASE: https://www.gamasutra.com/view/pressreleases/377494/THE_GRAND_SIESTA_IS_OVER.php
they/them. i paint birds sometimes.