USA Today 12/8 - Assistant Coaches Salaries Skyrocketing

GTHomer

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Interesting articles regarding the subject. In short, assistant coaches making more than $1M/year are increasing. 12 are making at least $1M this season whereas there was only 1 in 2009.

We talked about the number of support staffers we have compared to some of the nearby football powers. We you add compensation to that equation, it becomes clear as to the difficulty in keeping up. While we are remaining competitive, the overall landscape is becoming more challenging.

You can see these are related articles below. Note one is a video.

http://www.usatoday.com/picture-gal...-college-football-assistant-coaches/95010368/

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...oyle-scott-cochran-strength-coaches/95069266/

http://www.usatoday.com/videos/spor...playoff-lucrative-assistant-coaches/95094894/
 
Cam

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The question is whether you can/should set limits on the amount of money you can pay a coach or a collection of coaches. Say you set a salary cap of about 10-15 million and have to keep all of your coaches, assistants, and recruiting staffers under that umbrella. Or say you can only have 15 non-coaching personnel. Does it start to approach too much of a professional organization?
 
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Cam said:
The question is whether you can/should set limits on the amount of money you can pay a coach or a collection of coaches. Say you set a salary cap of about 10-15 million and have to keep all of your coaches, assistants, and recruiting staffers under that umbrella. Or say you can only have 15 non-coaching personnel. Does it start to approach too much of a professional organization?
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I believe there was BIG case about capping assistant coaching pay a couple of decades ago. NCAA lost.

I think NCAA should cap the amount of staff a team has. Pretty effing crazy that a team like 'Bama has like 10,000 coaching "analysts", each of whom make more money than a large portion of full time coaches.
 

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The big thing they should change is that right now boosters can essentially pay a coaches salary. I remember reading a thing that sabans salary doesn't even come much at all from Alabama and it's covered by donations made to athletics but like earmarked for that.

Don't quote me on this , but I just remember reading that the way the rules were set up donations could be put towards stuff like that so the real athletic budget could go elsewhere.
 
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