These are college football's biggest spenders on private jet travel for the 2025 season ✈️ (Gophers 8th nationally at $618K)

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Interesting mostly because as million miler on Delta I know how easy it is to get around the country with us being a hub town for them. Otherwise, I really don’t care. I think it lends credence to the fact that we’re not as poor as some of the Fleckites on here claim we are — the continued nonsense regarding assistant coach pay being the main dumb take.
 
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Gopherchase said:
Interesting mostly because as million miler on Delta I know how easy it is to get around the country with us being a hub town for them. Otherwise, I really don’t care. I think it lends credence to the fact that we’re not as poor as some of the Fleckites on here claim we are — the continued nonsense recitative to assistant coach pay being the main dumb take.
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You think this article where like 17% of schools responded to public records request with different standards of how to report placed Minnesota in the middle of the 17% lends credence to anything?

We as a society are illiterate.
 



Some guy said:
You think this article where like 17% of schools responded to public records request with different standards of how to report placed Minnesota in the middle of the 17% lends credence to anything?

We as a society are illiterate.
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You mean that Bowling Green isn’t actually the 17th biggest spender on private jets in college football and spending more than Ohio State, Georgia, Notre Dame, Oregon, and Penn State?
 


Some guy said:
You think this article where like 17% of schools responded to public records request with different standards of how to report placed Minnesota in the middle of the 17% lends credence to anything?

We as a society are illiterate.
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Some guy said:
You think this article where like 17% of schools responded to public records request with different standards of how to report placed Minnesota in the middle of the 17% lends credence to anything?

We as a society are illiterate.
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Plenty of data here to show generally how we compare to P4 peers. It must be a burden to always be the smartest guy in the room?
 

We have/had Sun Country as a sponsor. IDK how the sale of Sun Country from a "local" company to a "national" buyer will effect our travel expenses or opportunities going forward.
 



Gopherchase said:
Plenty of data here to show generally how we compare to P4 peers. It must be a burden to always be the smartest guy in the room?
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How many teams reported?
Did they all use the same reporting standards?

Did you read the article?
 


Gopherchase said:
Interesting mostly because as million miler on Delta I know how easy it is to get around the country with us being a hub town for them. Otherwise, I really don’t care. I think it lends credence to the fact that we’re not as poor as some of the Fleckites on here claim we are — the continued nonsense regarding assistant coach pay being the main dumb take.
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The assistant pay pool was below B1G average long before Fleck’s tenure, during his tenure, and I assume will continue to be so after his tenure. Not sure how it’s a Fleckite take, past and future coaches had, and will have the same handicap here unless something changes higher up.
 

btowngopher said:
The assistant pay pool was below B1G average long before Fleck’s tenure, during his tenure, and I assume will continue to be so after his tenure. Not sure how it’s a Fleckite take, past and future coaches had, and will have the same handicap here unless something changes higher up.
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Since you have such a good handle on what the assistant coach pool is, why don’t you share it with everyone. My guess is if Phil Parker came knocking on the door wanting to come be PJs DC for the last five years of his career we could find a lot more money.
 



Gopherchase said:
Interesting mostly because as million miler on Delta I know how easy it is to get around the country with us being a hub town for them. Otherwise, I really don’t care. I think it lends credence to the fact that we’re not as poor as some of the Fleckites on here claim we are — the continued nonsense regarding assistant coach pay being the main dumb take.
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Bizarre flex on a college football board. Instead of "I fly a lot," you run with "I'm a corporate knob." It tracks, though.
 

mngg11 said:
Bizarre flex on a college football board. Instead of "I fly a lot," you run with "I'm a corporate knob." It tracks, though.
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Never thought of it that way, but anybody who flies a lot wouldn’t consider it a flex — flying sucks, but sometimes part of the job. I’m surprised that you’ve come down enough off your high from the No Kings rally on Saturday to check the site.
 

How much of the private travel is by the AD, President, other AD staff and it just easy to attribute it to football because they are highest revenue sport. I don't think this is entirely football staff use for recruiting, for to travel to clinics. All I am saying g is I think some of this travel isn't just football department or the coaches. This kind of thing happens a lit in athletic departments, the line item charges for accounting.
 

impossible. We are a small market team with no support. I have learned that here.
 

Gopherchase said:
Since you have such a good handle on what the assistant coach pool is, why don’t you share it with everyone. My guess is if Phil Parker came knocking on the door wanting to come be PJs DC for the last five years of his career we could find a lot more money.
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I don’t know what it is but when the spending has been what it’s been decade after decade why would you think there’s so much more available to Fleck?
 

Gopherchase said:
Never thought of it that way, but anybody who flies a lot wouldn’t consider it a flex — flying sucks, but sometimes part of the job. I’m surprised that you’ve come down enough off your high from the No Kings rally on Saturday to check the site.
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I mean, if you want to waste whatever cachet you've earned with posters here who are worth a damn by turning things political with an internet stranger who spends most of his time loving on the coach you love to hate and trolling you, do your thing! I won't roll in the mud with you but I'll cheer you all the way down down to the off topic board😘
 



mngg11 said:
My bad, I gave him an excuse to meander off the topic
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I just find it wild people go off angrily with absolutely no idea what they’re even talking about

Not in a “they are wrong way”

But in a they just inserted themselves into a conversation and make claims and they literally don’t even know what’s in the article they’re arguing about
Admittedly, I didn’t read the whole article because once I realized it was bad data, I stopped reading
 

Gopherchase said:
Since you have such a good handle on what the assistant coach pool is, why don’t you share it with everyone. My guess is if Phil Parker came knocking on the door wanting to come be PJs DC for the last five years of his career we could find a lot more money.
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In 2024, Minnesota was ranked 15th out of the 15 Big Ten teams that reported their assistant coach salary pools
  1. Ohio State $11,425,000
  2. Michigan $9,384,000
  3. Oregon $8,295,000
  4. Iowa $7,900,000
  5. Washington $7,200,000
  6. Michigan State $6,975,000
  7. Nebraska $6,775,000
  8. Indiana $5,935,000
  9. Rutgers $5,750,000
  10. Maryland $5,475,000
  11. Wisconsin $5,375,000
  12. Illinois $5,325,000
  13. Purdue $4,965,000
  14. UCLA $4,670,000
  15. Minnesota $4,599,000
 
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ReeserMN said:
In 2024, Minnesota was ranked 15th out of the 15 teams that reported their assistant coach salary pools
  1. Ohio State $11,425,000
  2. Michigan $9,384,000
  3. Oregon $8,295,000
  4. Iowa $7,900,000
  5. Washington $7,200,000
  6. Michigan State $6,975,000
  7. Nebraska $6,775,000
  8. Indiana $5,935,000
  9. Rutgers $5,750,000
  10. Maryland $5,475,000
  11. Wisconsin $5,375,000
  12. Illinois $5,325,000
  13. Purdue $4,965,000
  14. UCLA $4,670,000
  15. Minnesota $4,599,000
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As we should with two unproven coordinators who are overpaid at even the paltry comparative salary they make. It’s not rocket science and there is more in the bank the PJ doesn’t use on this staff because he doesn’t have to. Anyone think Collins and Harbaugh should be paid say the average of B10 coordinators?
 

Gopherchase said:
Interesting mostly because as million miler on Delta I know how easy it is to get around the country with us being a hub town for them. Otherwise, I really don’t care. I think it lends credence to the fact that we’re not as poor as some of the Fleckites on here claim we are — the continued nonsense regarding assistant coach pay being the main dumb take.
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When coaches consistently leave for more money, it’s not a dumb take. I also wouldn’t say it’s ONLY about money in the case of a Rossi.
 


Gopherchase said:
As we should with two unproven coordinators who are overpaid at even the paltry comparative salary they make. It’s not rocket science and there is more in the bank the PJ doesn’t use on this staff because he doesn’t have to. Anyone think Collins and Harbaugh should be paid say the average of B10 coordinators?
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For sure this is a lot of it.


So my take has always been:
Why would fleck pay more for a guy he doesn’t want rather than less for a guy he does want. If we had a DC with a slightly higher salary and were 10th instead of 15th in the metric. What would it mean for the program?
Nothing if the difference in coaching is marginal.

I think the salary pool is competitive enough to be anywhere in the bottom half probably. Guessing he couldn’t be top half.
But I have no idea


Did you read the article yet?
 

This isn't team travel. This is chartering private jets to do xyz.

My guess is Fleck has a clause in his contract allowing him X times per year to charter a private jet for himself and his family, to be able to see one another more often. His kids live with their mom elsewhere, correct?

If the U simply paid him $600k more in salary and then he chartered the jets himself on his own dime, it would suddenly appear that the U was at $0.

It's all hand-wave stuff on how different schools choose to do and account things differently. There is no standard
 

GopherGrit said:
This isn't team travel. This is chartering private jets to do xyz.

My guess is Fleck has a clause in his contract allowing him X times per year to charter a private jet for himself and his family, to be able to see one another more often. His kids live with their mom elsewhere, correct?

If the U simply paid him $600k more in salary and then he chartered the jets himself on his own dime, it would suddenly appear that the U was at $0.

It's all hand-wave stuff on how different schools choose to do and account things differently. There is no standard
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This isn’t anything
Every university who reported (less than 20% did) reported with different reporting standard.


We have almost no data.
The data we have is inconsistently reported.


I’m not making any claim. The gopher could have the biggest private jet budget in America. But nobody can make claims based on this data. It’s useless
 

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