Kevin King, MA, teaching specialist at the School of Kinesiology, was cited in a Badger Project article, “The highest-paid public employees in Wisconsin are Badger coaches, but…they’re not paid with public money.”

The article references the University of Wisconsin-Madison head football coach Paul Chryst‘s salary, and how 90 percent of his annual income is funded by private donors through the University of Wisconsin Foundation. King says, “It is not uncommon for some big-time schools to pay their coaches through a combination of private donations, booster clubs and from its department budgets.”