Lieutenant Guv Gavin Newsom Opposes Plan for Regents to Delegate Authority Over Coach Pay to Chancellors and UC Prez

We'll post the full audio of the Regents meeting of Sept. 18, 2014 tomorrow.  However, in the interim you may be interested in the remarks of Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom on a plan - ultimately tabled after he objected - to delegate oversight of athletic coach salaries to the campus chancellors and the UC president.  Newsom noted that academic achievement of student-athletes seems not to be a part of such salary negotiations.

You can hear his remarks below: