Dozens of head coaches in the Football Bowl subdivision have suffered pay cuts this year due to the monetary consequences of the coronavirus pandemic.
But even with those cuts, they’re still winning more than ever.
USA TODAY Sports’ annual review of pay-per-training found that the overall average salary of FBS head coaches in 2020-21$2. 7 million, an increase of 1. 1% over last year’s average. These figures come with the pay cuts some coaches are taking. Year.
In the absence of a global pandemic, the 122 FBS trainers for whom USA TODAY Sports can get the planned refund would have earned an average of $2. 79 million, an increase of 4. 5% over last year.
Alabama’s Nick Saban, who is expected to make $9. 3 million, is again the highest-paid coach in the country, followed by LSU’s Ed Orgeron ($8. 9 million) and Clemson’s Dabo Swinney ($8. 3 million). Saban is now the highest-paid coach in school football in seven of the last nine years.
Here are five other effects of the latest workout reimbursement data, which USA TODAY Sports has compiled and analyzed since 2006.
USA TODAY Sports has discovered some trends in pay cuts made through apprentices at other conferences. For example, the head coach of Big 12 and Big Ten public schools accepted a voluntary pay cut in the wake of the pandemic. affecting students in only 4 of the thirteen public schools: Arkansas, Missouri, Miss Ole, and South Carolina.
The Group of Five, on the other hand, had some attractive outliers: only a head coach at a Mountain West public school, Bryan Harsin of Boise State, accepted a voluntary pay cut, and at MAC, a coach (Lance Leipold of Buffalo) did not.
It is unexpected that there is a difference in the salaries of trainers between Power Five and Group of Five schools, however the length of the hole is significant. This year, the average Power Five trainer earns nearly $ 4. 4 million in overall compensation, more than 4 times the salary of the average Group of Five trainer.
Repurchase clauses continue to rise. This year, at least five coaches would have a debt of $30 million or more if ignored before December 1, under the direction of Jimbo Fisher of Texas A
Nothing helps a coach’s wallet like a national championship race. LSU coach Ed Orgeron amassed more than $1. 77 million in bonuses last year, meaning he earned more bonus bills than at least 50 FBS apprentices in full payment during the same period.
It’s smart to be Michigan State’s freshman coach, Mel Tucker. Tucker’s salary has more than doubled for a year, when he held the same position in Colorado, and has doubled six since 2017, when he was an assistant in Georgia. Your total refund for 2020 ($5. 06 million) ranks 14th in the USA TODAY Sports database.
The same goes for Ryan Day. Three years ago, Day earned $400,000 as an assistant coach at Ohio State. You are now expected to get $5. 6 million in full payment by 2020 and your salary will be $7. 6 million by 2022.
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