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Keeping up with the growing arms race in coaching compensation is enough to drive anybody insane. We began tracking coaches compensation years ago, only to become discouraged at the lack of information available to the public. So, we resorted to tracking the numbers by following various news reports of the subject across the nation. When in doubt, we often went with the more conservative number. However, many contractual terms graduate along the length of the agreement. Case in pint is Arizona State's Dennis Erickson, who signed a $5.6 million contract to be paid over five years, although his base for 2007 is $500,000, we are reporting him at his average of $1.12M.
Most sources had Notre Dame's Charlie Weis signing a 10-year contract worth between $30-40 million, but many claimed it to be in the upper 30's. Almost all compensation plans are tiered, and we're concerned with the current compensation earned. So we decided to go with a reported $3.3 million figure.
It is especially difficult in getting the compensation details from private institutions. Temple's Al Golden let his slip before his hush clause went into effect, which is why his numbers have been reported. However, it is like prying a nickel from a Scotsman to find out the compensation packages for many of these institutions.
<center><p><a href="http://www.dopke.com/Archives_Pages/Coaching_Changes/DIACoachesComp.htm" target="_blank">The rest of the story</a>
<!-- Coaching salaries, as compiled via various sources and news reports:
(as of March 1, 2007)
Rank School Name Annual Inc. Conf
1 Alabama Nick Saban $4,000,000 SEC
2 Oklahoma Bob Stoops $3,400,000 B12
3 Notre Dame Charlie Weis $3,300,000 IND
4 Southern California Pete Carroll $3,000,000 P10
5 Iowa Kirk Ferentz $2,840,000 B10
6 Texas Mack Brown $2,664,000 B12
7 Auburn Tommy Tuberville $2,231,000 SEC
8 Tennessee Philip Fulmer $2,050,000 SEC
9 Ohio State Jim Tressel $2,012,700 B10
10 Texas A&M Dennis Franchione $2,012,200 B12
11 Virginia Tech Frank Beamer $2,000,800 ACC
12 Florida Urban Meyer $2,000,000 SEC
13 Penn State Joe Paterno $2,000,000 B10
14 North Carolina Butch Davis $1,860,000 ACC
15 Virginia Al Groh $1,785,000 ACC
16 South Carolina Steve Spurrier $1,750,000 SEC
17 West Virginia Rich Rodriguez $1,750,000 BEC
18 Georgia Mark Richt $1,713,000 SEC
19 Florida State Bobby Bowden $1,691,900 ACC
20 Maryland Ralph Friedgen $1,691,864 ACC
21 Nebraska Bill Callahan $1,690,317 B12
22 Texas Tech Mike Leach $1,600,000 B12
23 California Jeff Tedford $1,505,300 P10
24 Kansas Mark Mangino $1,501,241 B12
25 Rutgers Greg Schiano $1,500,000 BEC
26 Michigan Lloyd Carr $1,454,619 B10
27 LSU Les Miles $1,450,000 SEC
28 Washington Ty Willingham $1,414,772 P10
29 Wisconsin Brett Bielema $1,300,000 B10
30 Oregon Mike Bellotti $1,256,000 P10
31 Fresno State Pat Hill $1,253,982 WAC
32 Illinois Ron Zook $1,241,750 B10
33 Purdue Joe Tiller $1,217,742 B10
34 Clemson Tommy Bowden $1,198,028 ACC
35 Baylor Guy Morriss $1,144,236 B12
36 Iowa State Gene Chizik $1,125,000 B12
37 Arizona State Dennis Erickson $1,120,000 P10
38 South Florida Jim Leavitt $1,117,500 BEC
39 Louisville Steve Kragthorpe $1,100,000 BEC
40 Michigan State Mark Dantonio $1,100,000 B10
41 North Carolina State Tom O'Brien $1,100,000 ACC
42 Tulsa Todd Graham $1,100,000 USA
43 Colorado Dan Hawkins $1,098,500 B12
44 Missouri Gary Pinkel $1,095,000 B12
45 Arkansas Houston Nutt $1,049,644 SEC
46 UCF George O'Leary $1,035,000 USA
47 Georgia Tech Chan Gailey $1,009,181 ACC
48 Navy Paul Johnson $1,003,309 IND
49 Minnesota Tim Brewster $1,000,000 B10
50 Wake Forest Jim Grobe $987,843 ACC
51 TCU Gary Patterson $952,162 MWC
52 Mississippi State Sylvester Croom $940,000 SEC
53 Memphis Tommy West $925,000 USA
54 Mississippi Ed Orgeron $905,000 SEC
55 Oregon State Mike Reilly $900,000 P10
56 UCLA Karl Dorrell $881,000 P10
57 Arizona Mike Stoops $865,000 P10
58 Boise State Chris Peterson $850,000 WAC
59 Cincinnati Brian Kelly $850,000 BEC
60 Connecticut Randy Edsall $845,000 BEC
61 Hawaii June Jones $820,800 WAC
62 Boston College Jeff Jagodzinski $800,000 ACC
63 Oklahoma State Mike Gundy $800,000 B12
64 Kansas State Ron Prince $750,000 B12
65 Kentucky Rich Brooks $729,165 SEC
66 San Diego State Chuck Long $701,500 MWC
67 Utah Kyle Whittingham $672,000 MWC
68 Syracuse Greg Robinson $638,441 BEC
69 Indiana Terry Hoeppner $600,000 B10
70 Washington State Bill Doba $599,042 P10
71 Temple Al Golden $575,000 MAC
72 Air Force Troy Calhoun $572,000 MWC
73 Houston Art Briles $550,000 USA
74 UTEP Mike Price $543,000 USA
75 Colorado State Sonny Lubick $529,900 MWC
76 Wyoming Joe Glenn $505,100 MWC
77 BYU Bronco Mendenhall $500,000 MWC
78 SMU Phil Bennett $495,602 USA
79 UNLV Mike Sanford $435,000 MWC
80 New Mexico Rocky Long $431,175 MWC
81 East Carolina Skip Holtz $425,000 USA
82 Louisiana Tech Derek Dooley $400,000 WAC
83 Marshall Mark Snyder $390,603 USA
84 Toledo Tom Amstutz $376,400 MAC
85 Duke Ted Roof $370,200 ACC
86 Florida International Mario Cristobal $360,000 SUN
87 Nevada Chris Ault $360,000 WAC
88 UAB Neil Callaway $360,000 USA
89 Florida Atlantic Howard Schnellenberger $353,147 SUN
90 Southern Miss Jeff Bower $349,983 USA
91 San Jose State Dick Tomey $342,100 WAC
92 North Texas Todd Dodge $331,448 SUN
93 New Mexico State Hal Mumme $283,800 WAC
94 Ohio Frank Solich $262,172 MAC
95 Middle Tennessee Rick Stockstill $254,800 SUN
96 Utah State Brent Guy $241,900 WAC
97 Idaho Robb Akey $240,001 WAC
98 Troy Larry Blakeney $226,750 SUN
99 Central Michigan Butch Jones $220,000 MAC
100 Northern Illinois Joe Novak $212,496 MAC
101 Akron J.D. Brookhart $207,500 MAC
102 Louisiana-Lafayette Ricky Bustle $194,250 SUN
103 Arkansas State Steve Roberts $189,655 SUN
104 Western Michigan Bill Cubit $188,000 MAC
105 Buffalo Turner Gill $183,000 MAC
106 Ball State Brady Hoke $159,220 MAC
107 Eastern Michigan Jeff Genyk $154,442 MAC
108 Kent State Doug Martin $150,200 MAC
109 Bowling Green Gregg Brandon $150,000 MAC
110 Miami-Ohio Shane Montgomery $139,500 MAC
111 Louisiana-Monroe Charlie Weatherbie $130,000 SUN
- Army Stan Brock NA IND
- Miami-Florida Randy Shannon NA ACC
- Northwestern Pat Fitzgerald NA B10
- Pittsburgh Dave Wannstedt NA BEC
- Rice David Bailiff NA USA
- Stanford Jim Harbaugh NA P10
- Tulane Bob Toledo NA USA
- Vanderbilt Bobby Johnson NA SEC
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