It pays to play

by **OR-See-Nee** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 2:15 pm

If this has been posted before, please forgive me. I didn't see this posted.

USA Today has an article on the escalation in salaries for football coaches. For the first time in recorded history, the average salary topped $1 million, a 9% jump since last year.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/ ... -pay_N.htm

by **me@smu** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 2:21 pm

Couple of things from that article:

Ave. salary in CUSA is 650k and we are offering somewhere between 3X and 4x that amount...and still can't guarantee our guy?

Anyone love that educational institutions will pay an 250k in bonus for winning the conference but 15k for "education" bonus?

Good ole modern day football.

by **LonghornFan68** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 2:24 pm

me@smu wrote:Couple of things from that article:

Ave. salary in CUSA is 650k and we are offering somewhere between 3X and 4x that amount...and still can't guarantee our guy?

Anyone love that educational institutions will pay an 250k in bonus for winning the conference but 15k for "education" bonus?

Good ole modern day football.

It also pays to win. Not a whole lot of donors out there doling out cash for educational triumphs.

by **Duke Blue Blood** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 4:21 pm

We would be paying our guy TWICE as much as the top salary in our conference. To put that in perspective (everything is relative).

A new ACC coach would need to get paid $4MM to double the top salary

A new Big East coach would need to get paid $3.5MM to double the top salary.

A new Big Ten coach would need to get paid $6.0MM to double the top salary.

A new Big 12 coach would need to get paid $7.2MM to double the top salary.

A new Pac-10 coach would need to get paid $5.6MM to double the top salary.(Carroll is almost earning 2X the next highest coach)

A new SEC coach would need to get paid $7.0MM to double the top salary.

These are some scary numbers!

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