The have's and have not's: Assistant Coaches Salaries

[CoachCB]

Assistant coaches salaries at BCS/Power 5 schools have literally skyrocketed over the last 10 years. FSU OC Jeff Bowden made $145K when he was fired in 2005 and replaced w/ Jimbo Fisher. $145K for an OC at a major football power!

This is from Coaching Ticker:

Louisiana-Lafayette: The Advertiser has reported the new annual salary information for ULL assistants. Salaries for new coaches include defensive coordinator / defensive backs / assistant head coach Melvin Smith ($70,000) and defensive line coach Levorn Harbin ($90,000), inside linebackers coach Mike Lucas ($100,000). In addition, all five offensive assistants received raises: offensive coordinator / quarterbacks Jay Johnson ($210,000), tight ends coach Reed Stringer ($140,000), offensive line coach Mitch Rodrigue ($135,000), wide receivers coach Jorge Munoz ($120,000) and running backs coach Marquase Lovings ($95,000). The paper also reports former Auburn safeties coach Charlie Harbison is expected to join the staff as co-defensive coordinator / outside linebackers coach and earn $80,000, but the hire has not been made official.

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Look at the bolded part. Former Auburn Safeties coach is set to make $80K as the Co-DC at a D1 school. Meanwhile, Will Muschamp takes over at Auburn and will be paid $1.5 million....and former UF DB coach Travaris Robinson, now the DB coach at Auburn, will make over $500K (he made $510K at UF last year).

 

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ULL head coach Mark Hudspeth is now the highest paid coach in the Sun Belt Conference at around $1.1 million. He started four years ago with a salary of $350,000, but after four 9-4 seasons including 4 bowl wins...his salary has been bumped to over one million. The Ragin' Cajuns were 3-9 before Hudspeth took over.

I've said here on occasion that if Dan Mullen left Mississippi State...Hudspeth would be their number one target as a replacement. He's good young coach who has really turned ULL around.

 

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Highest Paid Assistant Coaches for 2015

1. John Chavis, DC, Texas AM, $1,670,000 (was DC for LSU)
2. Will Muschamp, DC, Auburn, $1,600,000 (was HC for Florida)
3. Cam Cameron, OC, LSU, $1,500,000
4. Todd Graham, DC, Louisville, $1,400,000
5. Kirby Smart, DC, Alabama, $1,360,000 (was 2nd highest paid last season)
6. Brent Venables, DC, Clemson, $1,350,000
7. Jeremy Pruitt, DC, Georgia, $1,300,000
8. Kevin Steele, DC, LSU, $1,000,000 (was LB coach at Alabama)
9. Brian Schottenheimer, OC, Georgia, $950,000 (was NFL coach)
10. Mike Norvelle, OC, Arizona State, $901,560

*Looks like it's good to be a coordinator in the SEC.
*Big time coordinators make more than head coaches in a number of conferences.
*Salaries continue to go up..up..up.......................

 

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......During the 2015 season, John Chavis as Texas A&M's defensive coordinator will earn more than 70 Division I head coaches.

Good to be a coordinator in the SEC.........

 

[TyBounce]

ULL head coach Mark Hudspeth is now the highest paid coach in the Sun Belt Conference at around $1.1 million. He started four years ago with a salary of $350,000, but after four 9-4 seasons including 4 bowl wins...his salary has been bumped to over one million. The Ragin' Cajuns were 3-9 before Hudspeth took over.

I've said here on occasion that if Dan Mullen left Mississippi State...Hudspeth would be their number one target as a replacement. He's good young coach who has really turned ULL around.

Hudspeth is a damn good coach but i can't see him being a hc for a big time program. Dude sounds like a rural hayseed that didnt get past 6th grade vocabulary. I can't imagine him holding pressers and dealing with the media at a big time school. ....maybe an oc but not hc

 

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Down south, it's about winning football games...not being a speech professor.

Ever listen to Bear Bryant talk...difficult to understand a word he said.

Hudspeth was successful as head coach at North Alabama, now ULL, and will be at a major university in the not so distant future.

 

[TyBounce]

Down south, it's about winning football games...not being a speech professor.

Ever listen to Bear Bryant talk...difficult to understand a word he said.

Hudspeth was successful as head coach at North Alabama, now ULL, and will be at a major university in the not so distant future.

Well that was a long time ago , the media was different. Bryants only media obligations was having dinner with Alf Van Hoose and talking to a few beat writers at practice (and that was only if he felt like it). Nowadays these guys have to be like a ceo and a pr spokesman.

 

[TyBounce]

...And i dont see any similarity to Bryant and Hudspeth. Bryant had a deep voice and mumbled and spoke softly making it hard to understand , but if you could understand he didnt sound uneducated. Hudspeth is just a complete goober who looks and sounds like he was half a chromosome away from being a special person.

 

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Whatever..........the guy is 102-37 as a head coach. He was offensive coordinator at Navy before taking the North Alabama job. Guess the had no problem with his speech.
I honestly don't have a clue where you're coming from.

What's next...looks, weight, hair style, size of butt...................

 

[MackDonald]

...And i dont see any similarity to Bryant and Hudspeth. Bryant had a deep voice and mumbled and spoke softly making it hard to understand , but if you could understand he didnt sound uneducated. Hudspeth is just a complete goober who looks and sounds like he was half a chromosome away from being a special person.

And he liked his bourbon and, the women "ogled" over him, especially the "older-ones".....the 50 & 60 year-olds. Yes, Ol Bear Bryant had all the "bases" covered.

 

[CoachCB]

Honestly, I was hoping Hudspeth would get a look for the Florida job. Foley had only 1 target in that search though....

 

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And he liked his bourbon and, the women "ogled" over him, especially the "older-ones".....the 50 & 60 year-olds. Yes, Ol Bear Bryant had all the "bases" covered.

Right you are Mack. Coach Bryant was and still is among the older generation the greatest representative of the State of Alabama. I only met Coach Bryant once when I played in the Alabama North/South All-Star game. The game was in Tuscaloosa and after practice one day he came in and addressed all us players. Talk about a bunch of wide eyed kids. Even shook hands with each of us....never forgot that.

 

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Honestly, I was hoping Hudspeth would get a look for the Florida job. Foley had only 1 target in that search though....

Coach, Hudspeth will be a winner if given the opportunity in one of the top 5 conferences. I watched him closely when he was at North Alabama and saw early on he is the real deal. He's smart, a health nut who will lift weights with his players. One thing about his teams...they will spend a lot of time in the weight room.

Maybe I'm just an Alabama hayseed. I never saw a problem with his intelligence or speech.

God Almighty, how did Lou Holtz win 249 college games with his speech impediment...some would think the SOB shouldn't have been hired in the first place.

 

[1osubucks]

Highest Paid Assistant Coaches for 2015

1. John Chavis, DC, Texas AM, $1,670,000 (was DC for LSU)
2. Will Muschamp, DC, Auburn, $1,600,000 (was HC for Florida)
3. Cam Cameron, OC, LSU, $1,500,000
4. Todd Graham, DC, Louisville, $1,400,000
5. Kirby Smart, DC, Alabama, $1,360,000 (was 2nd highest paid last season)
6. Brent Venables, DC, Clemson, $1,350,000
7. Jeremy Pruitt, DC, Georgia, $1,300,000
8. Kevin Steele, DC, LSU, $1,000,000 (was LB coach at Alabama)
9. Brian Schottenheimer, OC, Georgia, $950,000 (was NFL coach)
10. Mike Norvelle, OC, Arizona State, $901,560

*Looks like it's good to be a coordinator in the SEC.
*Big time coordinators make more than head coaches in a number of conferences.
*Salaries continue to go up..up..up.......................

could it be coincidence that the best football conference in america (sec) has the highest coaching salaries? personally don't think its the coaches that make the SEC but the over abundance of talented football players..

 

[CoachCB]

Back on topic....

Charlie Harbison will make $80,000 as the Co-DC. A veteran HS football coach makes that (or more) in a lot of school districts (w/ their teaching salary).

Imagine what the DB coach at North Alabama or James Madison University makes.

When you hear "these schools are making so much money off of these players...." and then suggest that players should be paid. Here is your reason why players are compensated very adequately w/ their scholarship/financial aid packets.

 

[loomis41973]

Highest Paid Assistant Coaches for 2015

1. John Chavis, DC, Texas AM, $1,670,000 (was DC for LSU)
2. Will Muschamp, DC, Auburn, $1,600,000 (was HC for Florida)
3. Cam Cameron, OC, LSU, $1,500,000
4. Todd Graham, DC, Louisville, $1,400,000
5. Kirby Smart, DC, Alabama, $1,360,000 (was 2nd highest paid last season)
6. Brent Venables, DC, Clemson, $1,350,000
7. Jeremy Pruitt, DC, Georgia, $1,300,000
8. Kevin Steele, DC, LSU, $1,000,000 (was LB coach at Alabama)
9. Brian Schottenheimer, OC, Georgia, $950,000 (was NFL coach)
10. Mike Norvelle, OC, Arizona State, $901,560

*Looks like it's good to be a coordinator in the SEC.
*Big time coordinators make more than head coaches in a number of conferences.
*Salaries continue to go up..up..up.......................

That list is not really accurate.....not at all really.

Private schools don't disclose these figures.

 

[GoSooners]

I still think Brent Venables is a very average DC if you take him out of the ACC. He was below average in the Big 12. But I've got to give him credit, he made a smart move going to Clemson when he did. He's getting a bigger paycheck than he did at OU. He also did do a good job against OU in the bowl game. But he was in over his head when he had to deal week to week with the Big 12 offenses.

 

[loomis41973]

I still think Brent Venables is a very average DC if you take him out of the ACC. He was below average in the Big 12. But I've got to give him credit, he made a smart move going to Clemson when he did. He's getting a bigger paycheck than he did at OU. He also did do a good job against OU in the bowl game. But he was in over his head when he had to deal week to week with the Big 12 offenses.

Might be a poor to average DC, but a hellauva businessman. Cash those checks brother.

 

[CoachCB]

Most overpaid on that list is Will Muschamp. The epitome of incompetence!

 

[MattyMatt]

Kirby Smart will reach the $2M mark when he reaches HC status at South Carolina after next year, or the year after (hopefully before)...