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FBS coaches salaries

WestWYOPoke

WestWYOPoke

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Had a lot of free time and I was looking at the list of salaries for FBS head coaches.

http://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/salaries/

Craigh Bohl sits at #76 of 121 with $882K; 7 schools have no data, but likely all 7 are higher.

Some interesting points:

-71 schools pay their head coach at least $1 million.
-55 schools pay their head coach at least $2 million. (That escalated quickly).
-34 schools pay their head coach at least $3 million.
-16 schools pay their head coach at least $4 million.
-7(!!!) schools pay their head coach at least $5 million!

Non-BCS (Big Ten, SEC, Big XII, ACC, Pac-12) schools that pay higher salaries than UW:

-Army
-Air Force
-Tulane
-Louisiana-Lafayette
-Boise State
-South Florida
-Colorado State
-Memphis
-East Carolina
-Houston
-Fresno State
-Connecticut
-Navy
-Central Florida
-Cincinnati

That's 4 MWC teams, 9 AAC, 1 Sun Belt, but 0 Conference USA teams.

Interesting point I realized, with the exception of Temple and most likely Tulsa, every AAC teams pays their coach more.

Kansas (#81 @ $801K) is the only BCS school that actually pays less than UW.

Coach Bohl's max possible bonus is $330K, which is still only tied for #76 among FBS coaches.


Not necessarily trying to say anything with this, just thought I'd share some of my observations and see what others think...have at it.
 
Interesting subject. One can imagine the figures skyrocket when you figure in bonus money, housing, car, radio/tv shows, etc.
 
At this point I'd be satisfied with being the 76th best team. At least we'd get a bowl. But we need to expect excellence and success.
 
phxpoke said:
We need to find a way to pay our assistant coaches a more competitive wage.
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This is a must address. I couldn't agree more. Between this and our recruiting budget, we are handicapping our coaches. 750K-1 million more to salaries and 300-500K more to recruiting would pay for itself.

My approach if I'm Burman is to let football keep $1.2-$1.4 million of the money it generates and let men's Bball keep their tourney money (which should increase their budget over the next few years). I would then try like hell to offset that with administration cuts first before passing along cuts to non-revenue sports.

Either way, I think the cuts would be temporary (2-3 years) and would not kill off the non-revenue sports. After allowed time to work, I think the investment would easily pay for itself (i.e. football revenue would jump from 2 million to 3.5 million +; if we obtained the NY6 bid it would be 5 million+). It can happen.
 
phxpoke said:
We need to find a way to pay our assistant coaches a more competitive wage.
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Wait you think that group of assistants are under paid? Or do you think bohl would have hired different guys? Neither is true imo. This is like hiring Dave Christensen and then paying him twice as much as you hired him for and thinking you have twice the coach
 
Coeur d' Alene said:
phxpoke said:
We need to find a way to pay our assistant coaches a more competitive wage.
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Wait you think that group of assistants are under paid? Or do you think bohl would have hired different guys? Neither is true imo. This is like hiring Dave Christensen and then paying him twice as much as you hired him for and thinking you have twice the coach
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So you know that Bohl would have just paid Stanard more? What if Bohl decides to make a change next year? Do you think shopping around with $200K would be better than shopping around with $500+K? Do you think the fact that Bohl knows he only has $200K influences his decision on keeping certain staff members because who in the hell can you get for $200K anyway?

If Bohl fails, what do you assume a replacement candidate will think about a job with $200K/year for coordinators vs $500K/year?

Vision, man, vision!
 
The talk about assistant pay got me thinking, here is some data for assistant pay for 2014, slightly old but it shouldn't be too off the mark.

http://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/salaries/football/assistant

This lists the salaries of 964 FBS assistant coaches, with another 204 with no data.

Wyoming's top 2 assistants (Stanard and Vigen) sit at #403 and 404 with $212K. In looking at the 204 coaches without data, I think it's safe to say that at least half of them make more than $212K, so these 2 are more accurately ~#500.

In 2014, 2 assistants (Foster for Va Tech and Smart for Alabama) made more than our entire assistant staff combined, with another 3 coaches just shy of that mark.

189 coaches make at least $100K more than our coordinators.
100 coaches make at least $200K more than our coordinators.
98 coaches make at least double our coordinators.
50 coaches make at least $300K more than our coordinators.
31 coaches make at least $400K more than our coordinators.


There are 126 SEC coaches listed on this database, the 9 from Vanderbilt have no data, of the remaining 117, all but 6 make more than our 2 coordinators, that's 94.9%!

Similar numbers from other conferences:
-Big Ten - 126 coaches listed, 18 with no data, 79 of 108 (73.1%) make more our guys.
-Big XII - 92 listed, 16 with no data, 55 of 76 (72.4%) make more (with 2 more at the same salary).
-Pac-12 - 109 listed, 18 with no data, 64 of 91 (70.3%) make more.
-ACC - 126 listed, 54 with no data, 57 of 72 (79.2%) make more.
-AAC - 100 listed, 36 with no data, 22 of 64 (34.4%) make more.

-MWC - This surprised me...112 listed (no Hawaii or Air Force, 13 with no data, only 9 (9.1%) of 99 make more.

Some notable teams with a higher staff salary than UW:
- New Mexico
- East Carolina
- San Diego State
- Air Force
- Colorado State
- Boise State
- Kansas!!! (by almost $800K...WTF?)
- Every AAC team with data.

Notable teams with a lower staff salary than UW:
- Fresno State
- UNLV
- Nevada
- Utah State
- San Jose State
- Appalachian State (by almost $500K)

21 schools did not have a staff total, all but 6 (Hawaii, Rice, SMU, Temple, Tulane, Tulsa) are obviously higher (I.E. Notre Dame, USC, etc.)


Some more data and food for thought...your guys turn.
 
usu has done a nice job with their athletic program on a limited budget. Looking at the numbers specifically in this conference, the budgets and salary rankings usually fairly closely mirror the final standings (at least categorically--T3, T5, bottom 5, etc.).
 
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