Adam Rittenberg: Examining B1G assistant coach salaries

[BleedGopher]

Here are the totals paid for assistants among the 10 schools reporting salaries:

1. Ohio State -- $3.22 million
2. Michigan -- $2.755 million
3. Illinois -- $2.314 million
4. Michigan State -- $2.18 million
5. Iowa -- $2.16 million
6. Nebraska -- $2.13 million
7. Wisconsin -- $1.973 million
8. Indiana -- $1.96 million
9. Minnesota -- $1.745 million
10. Purdue -- $1.61 million

When factoring in the head coach salaries, the rankings look like this:

1. Ohio State -- $7.22 million
2. Iowa -- $6.035 million
3. Michigan -- $6.009 million
4. Nebraska -- $4.905 million
5. Wisconsin -- $4.571 million
6. Michigan State -- $4.098 million
7. Illinois -- $3.914 million
8. Minnesota -- $3.445 million
9. Indiana -- $3.22 million
10. Purdue -- $2.535 million

http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/51037/examining-b1g-assistant-coach-salaries

Go Gophers!!

 

[highwayman]

Skinflint Factor

Percentage of assistant salaries/total expenditure. Higher number means more goes to assistants.

1. Purdue 63.5%
2. Indiana 60.9%
3. Illinois 59.1%
4. MSU 53.2%
5. Minnesota 50.6%
6. Michigan 45.8%
7. OSU 44.6%
8. Nebraska 43.4%
9. Wisconsin 43.2%
10. Iowa 35.8%

I guess successful teams pay lots to their head coach and pay market to assistants...