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Two things stuck out:

1. Never been a Harbaugh fan, call me when he actually wins something, but his salary is now greater than his buy out. Can Michigan do better? If so who?
2. Never even thought about it, but Urban at Texas would be a deadly combination.

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College football's most overpaid and underpaid coaches

Who gets the least and who gets the most bang for their buck in college football?
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kgranger17 said:
Coaching pay in the US is absurd, considering they are state/government employees.

Take the collective pay of all college coaches and give it to the people really making the money: the players.

That's easily over 100,000,000$ back to the players, every year.
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1) Not all coaches are state employees. See, e.g., Miami;
2) Take all coaches' pay and give it to players. I don't know what you're trying to accomplish, except to shut down football. How about just advocate for players to be paid?
 
kgranger17 said:
Coaching pay in the US is absurd, considering they are state/government employees.

Take the collective pay of all college coaches and give it to the people really making the money: the players.

That's easily over 100,000,000$ back to the players, every year.
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So the coaches coach for free?
 
JeddTheFisch said:
1) Not all coaches are state employees. See, e.g., Miami;
2) Take all coaches' pay and give it to players. I don't know what you're trying to accomplish, except to shut down football. How about just advocate for players to be paid?
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125 out of 357 institutions are private on the D1 level. So we have near 200 schools that we need to "fix". Dude, it's sickening to know how much a football teacher is paid. They're football teachers who get paid millions; we let that get out of hand and should correct it as a society.


Yes, I care more about the players who are getting pimped than I do the old farts who are more than rich. You don't need to be rich to coach football. You don't need even 500,000$ to give your life to serving those below you.
 
kgranger17 said:
125 out of 357 institutions are private on the D1 level. So we have near 200 schools that we need to "fix". Dude, it's sickening to know how much a football teacher is paid. They're football teachers who get paid millions; we let that get out of hand and should correct it as a society.


Yes, I care more about the players who are getting pimped than I do the old farts who are more than rich. You don't need to be rich to coach football. You don't need even 500,000$ to give your life to serving those below you.
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This was a much better position statement.
 
kgranger17 said:
125 out of 357 institutions are private on the D1 level. So we have near 200 schools that we need to "fix". Dude, it's sickening to know how much a football teacher is paid. They're football teachers who get paid millions; we let that get out of hand and should correct it as a society.


Yes, I care more about the players who are getting pimped than I do the old farts who are more than rich. You don't need to be rich to coach football. You don't need even 500,000$ to give your life to serving those below you.
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I also have a major problem with state schools' coaches getting paid out the nose if the taxpayer has no say in the matter.

I am sickened to have to financially support UiF, F$U, FAU, FIU, USF, and other trash.
 
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JeddTheFisch said:
I also have a major problem with state schools' coaches getting paid out the nose. Why? For the simple reason that the taxpayer has no say in the matter.

I am sickened to have to financially support UiF, F$U, FAU, FIU, USF, and other trash.
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Off topic, but I graduated FSU in 20k debt.

A month after, they're calling me to donate money. While paying Jimbo millions.


***-backwards.
 
rustywalkedaway said:
Two things stuck out:

1. Never been a Harbaugh fan, call me when he actually wins something, but his salary is now greater than his buy out. Can Michigan do better? If so who?
2. Never even thought about it, but Urban at Texas would be a deadly combination.

247sports.com

College football's most overpaid and underpaid coaches

Who gets the least and who gets the most bang for their buck in college football?
247sports.com 247sports.com
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Urban is done unless Notre Dame comes calling. Doesn't matter if they offer him unfettered access to all the co-eds in Texas.
 
Lot of misunderstanding in this thread.

Most states put a cap on the salaries of coaches at public universities. Last I checked, that cap was around 250k in Florida—but it’s been a few years so it may have gone up a bit.

Coaches make most of their money through booster donations and by endorsements deals and coaches shows,

Don’t get me wrong—the pay is still outta control and the players deserve a piece of the pie. But it’s not like taxpayers are footing the multi-million dollar salaries for coaches.
 
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kgranger17 said:
Reasonable pay. They're teachers who put in 80 hours a week, and travel. So I'll give them 300,000$. With some variation based on market.
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Then every quality college coach would just leave for the nfl even as a position coach they’d make just as much
 
Canesbro31 said:
Then every quality college coach would just leave for the nfl even as a position coach they’d make just as much
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Wait, you mean jump to the NFL like a player?

Too bad, we put restrictions our NCAA football players where they must be 3 years out of high school.

Under my proposed plan (lol), If you get a job with university as a head coach, you must stay there (or suffer a transfer penalty), and only after 3 years of being a college coach may you go to the NFL.


Imagine if we went as totalitarian on the coaches as we do the players.
 
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kgranger17 said:
....They're football teachers who get paid millions; we let that get out of hand and should correct it as a society.......You don't need even 500,000$ to give your life to serving those below you.
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Bro I don’t mean to be insulting, but these are just some super simplistic proposals you have.

First of all whatever coaches get paid is not a societal problem. Society will not be impacted in anyway - positive or negative in terms of college coaching salaries. It has zero impact. There are a lot of other things that need to be corrected in society, this just isn’t one of them. I don’t know how you propose “correcting“ this, you must be wanting to have a law passed. Crazy shlt.

Also, who are you to say what amount of money is right? $500,000 sounds like a lot to you, but it really isn’t considering how much time these guys put in.

Some people are smalltime thinkers when it comes to money, Hhalf a million isn’t that much for a coach’s salary, especially not a high-level P5 coach. That’s just some grade school thinking right there.
 
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OriginalCanesCanesCanes said:
Bro I don’t mean to be insulting, but these are just some super simplistic proposals you have.

First of all whatever coaches get paid is not a societal problem. Society will not be impacted in anyway - positive or negative in terms of college coaching salaries. It has zero impact. There are a lot of other things that are need to be corrected in society, this just isn’t one of them. I don’t know how you propose “correcting“ this, you must be wanting to have a law passed. Crazy shlt.

Also, who are you to say what amount of money is right? $500,000 sounds like a lot to you, but it really isn’t considering how much time these guys put in.

Some people are smalltime thinkers when it comes to money, Half a million isn’t that much for a coach’s salary, especially not a high-level P5 coach. That’s just some grade school thinking right there.
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"Society will not be impacted in any way" America - Let's pay them 5 million a year.
 
Coaches don’t actually make that in all cash and the state only pays a couple hundred grand of that. Read up on how those salaries are paid out. Endorsement deals, boosters pay some of it, deferred cash, life insurance policies etc.
 
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