According to the most recently available Vanderbilt tax forms Basketball coach Kevin Stallings made $1.3 million dollars in 2004, which is up from the $900,000 the previous year. Check for yourself...<a href="http://www.portablereporter.net/990s/2005990.pdf">990</a>

This makes him the highest paid non-director/board member.

In this article about title IX: http://www.barnard.columbia.edu/sfonline/sport/gee_01.htm

Gee makes the point that athletics effects the university's bottom line: Athletic performance correlates to donation dollars and admission rates.

But Gee has also said he wants to return the student to student-athlete.

As a student sacrificing other opportunities to attend the expensive piece of education, that pay raise feels like $400,000 in misplaced priorities.

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