Coaches salaries

[CrazyCajun]

It’s the boosters that pay those high salaries. When 70-80k people wanna buy tickets to watch University presidents do their job they will make the money coaches do.

[Cajunrunner]

College football is a farm system for the NFL, yet they are compensated similarly. The offenses and defenses are not as sophisticated and recruiting footprint matters more than coaching for the elite teams. None of those guys you mentioned could keep an NFL job for more than 5 years. Also, because of NCAA rules regarding practice and player contact, they don't even have to work as hard as their NFL counterparts. Lastly, college sports is the only business where an employee makes more than the President/CEO.

So what’s your solution?

[CajunNation]

Each Big 12 school making $38.8M/year from their football TV deal....

Athletic Budgets

76.4 mil - Kansas State

71.8 mil - Iowa State

71.0 mil - Louisiana (our budget plus the Big-12 TV revenue)


https://ope.ed.gov/athletics/

[ManAboutTown]

Do AAC revenue..

[CajunNation]

Do AAC revenue..

Near as I can tell, the AAC distribution per school is 7 mil.


Athletic Budgets


60.1 mil - UCF
55.5 mil - Memphis
55.3 mil - Houston
51.7 mil - South Florida
43.7 mil - East Carolina
39.2 mil - Louisiana (Our budget plus AAC TV revenue)


https://ope.ed.gov/athletics/

[ManAboutTown]

Near as I can tell, the AAC distribution per school is 7 mil.


Athletic Budgets


60.1 mil - UCF
55.5 mil - Memphis
55.3 mil - Houston
51.7 mil - South Florida
43.7 mil - East Carolina
39.2 mil - Louisiana (Our budget plus AAC TV revenue)


https://ope.ed.gov/athletics/

Does that rank us at the bottom of AAC currently?

[VObserver]

Athletic Budgets

76.4 mil - Kansas State

71.8 mil - Iowa State

71.0 mil - Louisiana (our budget plus the Big-12 TV revenue)


https://ope.ed.gov/athletics/

This is the reason it would be possible for a school like UL to become competitive very quickly if they get in a P5 league.

[CajunNation]

Does that rank us at the bottom of AAC currently?

I don't have numbers for the privates, but I would assume this to be the case. However, I would imagine we'll be passing ECU in short order.

The point is to show we are only missing 2 things. A new stadium and an invite.

The rest of our facilities are probably better than every school I listed above.

[ManAboutTown]

I don't have numbers for the privates, but I would assume this to be the case. However, I would imagine we'll be passing ECU in short order.

The point is to show we are only missing 2 things. A new stadium and an invite.

The rest of our facilities are probably better than every school I listed above.

I'm sure this will be considered when conversations are had.

[Turbine]

I'm sure this will be considered when conversations are had.

If Louisiana has a word, those items need to be stressed.

If Tech can get into CUSA by promising a budget ....

Louisiana needs to promise a State of the Art football stadium.

With the recent Softball and Baseball builds, a football build promise carries credibility.