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I have an issue with comments like this. You somehow suggest that Ted is doing something nefarious by spending a year as our interim AD. TK did not design the CalPers retirement system. It is a part of the normal compensation of employees of the University. FWIW, compared to similar large Universities across the country, LBSU pays in the lower half of wages, but the retirement benefit makes the overall compensation competitive. Many here complain about how turnover of good people in athletics makes it hard for us to compete. Why do you think we have this turnover? It is because often we do not pay a competitive wage. Without the retirement benefit, turnover across the University would be massive. But, regardless of what you think about public retirement systems, insinuating that taking the offered benefits is somehow unethical is plain BS. I might not be in the camp that thinks hiring an accountant as AD is in the best interest of the program, but I am grateful for the job TK did.