Jerry Kill - the lowest paid coach in the Big Ten

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This is what's wrong with sports. Paying a coach "only" 1.2 million dollars is "troubling".

How's that huge contract working out for Iowa?
 

The methodology used by USA Today is simplistic and creates comparability issues. Under reasonable fair value methodologies, you can get to an answer of Kill's 2013 compensation package being slightly better than Wilson's.

That hasn't stopped multiple claims over the past several months that Jerry Kill is the lowest paid Big Ten coach by "$800,000" or "$700,000". Those ridiculous claims have come the traditional media as you'd expect, but also from Minnesota's own AD Norwood Teague.
 

Funny that it's never Kill bringing this issue up. He knows he signed the original contract plus an extension, so he gets what he gets. I don't at all take him for a "I've got to get mine" type of person anyway, so what does it matter?
 





Minny4Life said:
This is what's wrong with sports. Paying a coach "only" 1.2 million dollars is "troubling".

How's that huge contract working out for Iowa?
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I'll play devil's advocate...

A winning football teams:
- Makes your school more selective (helps undergraduate admissions)
- Helps school spirit and can change the overall character of the student body
- Increases athletic revenue
- etc, etc

Hiring a football coach is an investment.
 

I still think Kill and company deserve a bump in pay. I'd like to see Claeys get promoted to Asst. Head Coach/DC with a nice increase perhaps $50K or maybe more? This would probably lock him in long term. I'm guessing it would prevent Claeys from considering HC positions at lower tier schools which are probably his most realistic option if he wants to go that route.
 



RoyalGopher said:
I'll play devil's advocate...

A winning football teams:
- Makes your school more selective (helps undergraduate admissions)
- Helps school spirit and can change the overall character of the student body
- Increases athletic revenue
- etc, etc

Hiring a GOOD football coach is an investment.
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FIFY Royal. You know who was NOT a good investment.
 

Gopher Warrior said:
The methodology used by USA Today is simplistic and creates comparability issues. Under reasonable fair value methodologies, you can get to an answer of Kill's 2013 compensation package being slightly better than Wilson's.

That hasn't stopped multiple claims over the past several months that Jerry Kill is the lowest paid Big Ten coach by "$800,000" or "$700,000". Those ridiculous claims have come the traditional media as you'd expect, but also from Minnesota's own AD Norwood Teague.
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Gosh, GW. This program is in serious trouble if the AD doesn't even know how his FB coach's salary stacks up in the market. Have you talked to him about this?
 

Let us not forget that Kill insisted that they take part of what he would have been paid and allow him to shift it onto his assistant coaches. So where Kills salary is relatively low, the salary for his assistants is in line with the B1G. It was a very smart move by Kill and another sense of loyalty to his staff. At the time, what real difference does it make to him if he gets a 2x, 3x, 4x raise. It is still a lot of money, but he was able to give his top assistants a much bigger raise that put them in line with other top assistants and small program Head Coaches and reduce the chance of them being poached away. Kill will gets his raise after he is successful and his assistants will follow. Brilliant move by Kill.
 

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