FBS Coaching Salaries in the NIL Era

[Jetskies]

in the current financial era of CFB, I was thinking about coaching salaries.
Have not done an exhaustive search nor do I want to (too lazy), but I have often seen top coaching figures in the 8-10M / year range, if not more.

Wanted to start a conversation on why exactly this is, if universities supposedly are non-profits... and also what a reasonable future is for pay strcutures across an entire FBS program, in your view

• what are the market forces driving FBS coaching salareis today? NFL market? meaning, if we pay CFB coaches less, then they'll go to NFL? I personally doubt it because that's only 32 jobs that could theoretically be taken by your favorite school's coach. And that assumes your favorite coach is a qualified candidate. Unlikely concern, for most college fans.

• as smaller P4 schools search for money to pay kids & keep up with the Texases & Michigans of the world, should coaches continue to command the current salaries? Or should some of the money come straight out of coaches' pockets and back to the kids? To be fair, my underlying assumption in this question is that coaching salaries have only been able to reach their current rate on the back of a history of essentially free labor from the "student" athletes. Scholarships & amenities (food, housing, etc.) athletes receive can count as income, but probably do not cost enough to say it's a fair trade (ie. pay of the coaches is justified by the "income" football players currently get)

• what do u think is fair pay across an FBS program, moving forward? (coaches get __ , front office get ______, players get ___ )

I am not an expert in this, but you could probably gather from my tone that my leaning is toward collectively bringing down coaching salaries across all of FBS, and distributing from that pool, back to the athletes. IMO, The closer you are to the action/result on the field, the more you make - this is the philosophy in the NFL, as far as I'm aware. GMs make less than coaches, coaches make less than players. Players make the most.

thoughts?

 

[JwittersPAC]

in the current financial era of CFB, I was thinking about coaching salaries.
Have not done an exhaustive search nor do I want to (too lazy), but I have often seen top coaching figures in the 8-10M / year range, if not more.

Wanted to start a conversation on why exactly this is, if universities supposedly are non-profits... and also what a reasonable future is for pay strcutures across an entire FBS program, in your view

• what are the market forces driving FBS coaching salareis today? NFL market? meaning, if we pay CFB coaches less, then they'll go to NFL? I personally doubt it because that's only 32 jobs that could theoretically be taken by your favorite school's coach. And that assumes your favorite coach is a qualified candidate. Unlikely concern, for most college fans.

• as smaller P4 schools search for money to pay kids & keep up with the Texases & Michigans of the world, should coaches continue to command the current salaries? Or should some of the money come straight out of coaches' pockets and back to the kids? To be fair, my underlying assumption in this question is that coaching salaries have only been able to reach their current rate on the back of a history of essentially free labor from the "student" athletes. Scholarships & amenities (food, housing, etc.) athletes receive can count as income, but probably do not cost enough to say it's a fair trade (ie. pay of the coaches is justified by the "income" football players currently get)

• what do u think is fair pay across an FBS program, moving forward? (coaches get __ , front office get ______, players get ___ )

I am not an expert in this, but you could probably gather from my tone that my leaning is toward collectively bringing down coaching salaries across all of FBS, and distributing from that pool, back to the athletes. IMO, The closer you are to the action/result on the field, the more you make - this is the philosophy in the NFL, as far as I'm aware. GMs make less than coaches, coaches make less than players. Players make the most.

thoughts?

Do you feel the same way about college basketball coaches as well?

 

[Jetskies]

Do you feel the same way about college basketball coaches as well?

I have not thought enough about CBB to make an informed opinion, i am not a huge bball fan. But I would say (without any research) that the same review should happen in bball too. UConn would probably stand to lose if my vision were extended to bball, because reducing Dan Hurley's pay by millions and giving it to the kids, would be a death sentence to his career at UConn. he already wants to coach NBA and is making less than he would over there, so he'd probably bolt if the difference got any worse.

but i am not talking about UConn exclusively here, i'm talking about financials in CFB overall, and fairness for all of the creators of the entertainment product. So to remain logically consistent, I'd probably have to sacrifice Dan & Geno being uconn employees, for my statement to hold true.

Any university venture that is a for-profit venture, and uses student output to generate those profits (whether athletics or otherwise) should be examined in this manner. Football and Basketball fit that bill.