Staff Compensation Comparison

[Ndaccountant]

From Footballscoop.com, the entire coaching staff outside of Bo Pelini is due to earn at the most $2.1M, with the highest assistant coach (OC Tim Beck) earning $360K.

Compare that to Clemson, who just ponied up $800K per year for Venables. Oh, and the whole $1.3M per year for Chad Morris.

So, between the two coordinators, Clemson is spending as much as the entire assistant staff at Nebraska.

Wow.

 

[NDinFL]

Link?

 

[johnnykillz]

Good stats.

Weak sample though.

 

[BGIF]

Good stats.

Weak sample though.

Footballscoops.com didn't write an article on the topic, they report individual schools as they get reported.

Here are updates this month:

Nebraska: Pay day. John Papuchis' new salary (promoted to DC) is $300,000, up from $200,000 last season. Offensive coordinator Tim Beck's compensation rises to $365,000 from $345,000. New defensive line coach Rick Kaczenski will make $195,000. Running backs coach Ron Brown and offensive line coach Barney Cotton will each make $240,000 (up from $220,000 last season). Ross Els, linebackers / special teams, is going from $170,000 to $220,000. Receivers coach Rich Fisher is going from $160,000 to $180,000 and assistant offensive line coach John Garrison will make $160,000 (up from $140,000). Defensive backs coach Corey Raymond will make $200,000. Bo Pelini's salary rises to $2.875 million from $2.775 last season

Arkansas: Just saw some interesting salary info out of Arkansas...Taver Johnson's salary will be $275,000 (same as he was set to receive at Ohio State). Kevin Peoples, who moved from director of high school relations to coaching the defensive tackles, will now make $200,000 and newly hired director of high school relations Jason Shumaker will earn $102,0000. The total pool for the assistants is now $2.6 million.

Ohio State: Salaries for the assistants: Fickell ($750,000); Everett Withers ($450,000); Tom Herman ($420,000); Strength & Conditioning coach Mickey Marotti ($380,000), Ed Warinner ($350,000), Taver Johnson ($275,000), Mike Vrabel ($275,000); Stan Drayton ($275,000); Tim Hinton ($275,000); Zach Smith ($150,000). Thus, the total pool for assistants is $3.6 million (including strength coach...$3.2 million without)...about a $1 million increase over last season's staff.

NC State: Jon Tenuta's new title at NC State is associate head coach for defense and he also has a new two year contract at $400,000 per year ($135,000 higher than his prior deal).

Penn State: Bill O'Brien's deal is 5 years. $950,000 paid by the school, reportedly about $2.3 million per all in (including Nike money, etc...). More details to come.

Maryland: Locksley's agreement is $500,000 for 4 years all guaranteed. Max bonus of $150k.

 

[BGIF]

How USA TODAY compiled the salary database – USATODAY.com

NOTE: This a USA Today article/survey from December 2011. It does NOT reflect the recent firings and hirings.

ND and half dozen or so other schools, mostly private, did not furnish data for the survey.

Methodology
To determine the total pay packages of FBS (formerly known as Division I-A) head football coaches for their current contract years, USA TODAY—in partnership with Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP—requested all forms of compensation for the coach at each school. Among the 120 FBS schools, about 20 are private or are public schools covered under state law, exempting them from releasing salary data on coaches. Schools that provided contract information were given the opportunity to review their figures.

There are some surprises like Navy paying almost as Purdue.

The big dawgs are in an arms race.

 

[Ndaccountant]

How USA TODAY compiled the salary database – USATODAY.com

NOTE: This a USA Today article/survey from December 2011. It does NOT reflect the recent firings and hirings.

ND and half dozen or so other schools, mostly private, did not furnish data for the survey.




There are some surprises like Navy paying almost as Purdue.

The big dawgs are in an arms race.

What is shocking out of there is that O$U only netted about $400K for all athletics.

 

[Anchorman]

How USA TODAY compiled the salary database – USATODAY.com




There are some surprises like Navy paying almost as Purdue.

I'd be surprised if that doesn't rise as well. Navy's DC just turned down the same job at Tennessee. While some of that is loyalty, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a pay raise.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

One of today's Tribune articles uses Notre Dame's public tax information to project the salaries of our coaching staff.

I was surprised by how low BK's base salary is compared to what some of the top earners in his profession make. Maybe this is common practice for structuring a head coach's salary.

 

[Ndaccountant]

One of today's Tribune articles uses Notre Dame's public tax information to project the salaries of our coaching staff.

Shockingly low compared to most of the football factories-- which are absurdly high, of course. Not saying that we need to dive head first in the CFB arms race, but it doesn't bode well for our hanging onto key staff members.

Interesting. I would assume that Kelly is somewhere between the $2-$3M range, which is about right.

What is also interesting is that Jimbo Fisher can make nearly $3.5M with bonus and the total staff is paid roughly $6M with Jimbo's bonus. Oh, right, this is the same school that is expecting a deficit of $2.4M for 2012-2013.

Meanwhile, on 22 schools actually make money on athletics, per the previously linked USAToday article.

 

[phork]

Lesson: Pay your direct assistants like HCs 5-10 years ago.

 

[BGIF]

One of today's Tribune articles uses Notre Dame's public tax information to project the salaries of our coaching staff.

Shockingly low compared to most of the football factories-- which are absurdly high, of course. Not saying that we need to dive head first in the CFB arms race, but it doesn't bode well for our hanging onto key staff members.

Salaries plural? I saw Weis, Kelly, Brey, and Muffet discussed. One ex football coach, the current head coach, and the two BB coaches. Did I miss a link discussing the other football coaches (assistants)?

ND will have a lot of money available after 2015 when Weis is paid off. I've never understood how coaches fired still collect from the former employer while holding down a new job. Would be interesting if ND and KU met in a bowl as Charlie would be collecting paychecks from both schools.

I like how Muffet has a higher base salary (ND portion) but Brey gets a bigger chunk of the "other" compensation. I don't know what the revenue numbers are for ND Women's versus Men's BB but I'd assume Men's produces more, TV contacts and attendance although Muffet goes deeper into the NCAA Tournament. Muffet does more with less. ND can honestly say to the Feds, "No salary advantage for men over women here. Look at our basketball coaches' salaries."

 

[Buster Bluth]

Would be interesting if ND and KU met in a bowl as Charlie would be collecting paychecks from both schools.

Hopefully that never happens.

 

[NDinFL]

Hopefully that never happens.

Agreed.

Not to mention the transfers that Chuckles has from ND to KU.

 

[dublinirish]

if ND and KU meet in a bowl it means ND probably had a terrible season and KU, a great one :/

 

[Old Man Mike]

I was led to believe that much of the recent staff title changes et al were aimed at getting the key assistants higher compensation. Maybe I mis-read that. I DO know that another expert at staff stability, Frank Beamer, has both refused compensation boosts for himself while asking that those same monies be applied to his staff's salaries, and once laid down a gauntlet saying pay them more or I'm gone. Now Beamer couldn't have pulled that off after a first few years, but once established and empowered, he stood up for his staff big time.

 

[Ndaccountant]

Over at ndnation, they say nd athletics netted 19m in profit. There is no reason why they shouldnt be one of the mote compensated staffs. This used to be an issue but has improved.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Salaries plural? I saw Weis, Kelly, Brey, and Muffet discussed. One ex football coach, the current head coach, and the two BB coaches. Did I miss a link discussing the other football coaches (assistants)?

I shouldn't have used the plural. What surprised me was how low Kelly's base salary is ($617,846). Kelly apparently earned a total of ~$2.5 million, which seems about right, but there's some indication that "all or part of that total was a one-time payment to Coach Kelly."

I'm also curious how Play By Play Sports/ Notre Dame Sports Properties factors into this. I'd guess it's used to generate tax efficiencies for the Universities, or maybe to protect some of this financial information from public disclosure, but I don't know enough about the tax rules for non-profits to do anything more than speculate.