The Golden Years for college football coaching salaries has passed

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For years, coaches, administrators and facilities soaked up all the money that should have been going to college football PLAYERS. As we all predicted, that's changing now.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...ate-in-latest-evolution-of-revenue-share-era/

I'm not saying coaches will be poor, but they are now competing with 100 players that also want to get paid! How much is a good coach really worth vs. a few more excellent players? How long before certain individual players (quarterbacks) are paid more than coaches?
 

Would be nice to see more balance...

I don't know if it will continue though. We went through a brutal streak where even non-revenue coaching salaries were skyrocketing and that made zero sense ....
 

SeaBee_Gopher said:
For years, coaches, administrators and facilities soaked up all the money that should have been going to college football PLAYERS. As we all predicted, that's changing now.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...ate-in-latest-evolution-of-revenue-share-era/

I'm not saying coaches will be poor, but they are now competing with 100 players that also want to get paid! How much is a good coach really worth vs. a few more excellent players? How long before certain individual players (quarterbacks) are paid more than coaches?
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i think mike norvell realizes he will coach longer at the institution if part of his salary is going to nil/recruiting and thus he will have better teams and make more money (which is also super fucked up if coaches can just dump their salary in a NIL fund given then they can directly pay their players)

as far as coaching salaries, they'll level for a second while the revenue sharing situation gets leveled. the university is paying them, not the NIL boosters. the 3 cited examples all were looking like they could be fired, so this is a win win for them in that they get to keep their jobs and inject money back into recruiting/buying their own players.
 

upnorthkid said:
i think mike norvell realizes he will coach longer at the institution if part of his salary is going to nil/recruiting and thus he will have better teams and make more money (which is also super fucked up if coaches can just dump their salary in a NIL fund given then they can directly pay their players)

as far as coaching salaries, they'll level for a second while the revenue sharing situation gets leveled. the university is paying them, not the NIL boosters. the 3 cited examples all were looking like they could be fired, so this is a win win for them in that they get to keep their jobs and inject money back into recruiting/buying their own players.
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Right. It's starting with coaches giving back some of their excessive salaries to keep their jobs. I'd imagine that in the future most coaches just get paid less to start with. We'll see. I mean maybe a great college coach is worth MORE than a great NFL coach. Is college football even more complicated than pro football right now? There are a ton of moving parts. Maybe a great football CEO is worth the extra money. I'm arguing with myself now. Help!
 

Coaching salaries have gotten out of control, not sure if it will happen but would actually be a good thing if they stopped growing at the insane rate they have been growing at in recent years.

Does seem to be a trend of coaches giving back part of their salary to help get players. Won't be surprised to see that continue because most of these guys can live extremely comfortably on significantly less than what they are making.
 


This was destined to happen with NIL and now revenue sharing. The coach is no longer the team's King Cahuna. He's no longer solely responsible for creating the roster, roster management, booster donations, marketing in addition to all aspects of coaching. A lot of that responsibility now goes to general manager types running NIL, compensation and boosters.

Coaches will be finding loopholes to donate back to key players to get a team over the hump if they're not dong that already.
 

Maybe for the ceiling but the floor might come up for salaries in coaching.
 

Being a college coach, assistant coach, position coach, etc. seems like it would be more stressful now than coaching in the NFL. I dunno.
 

I disagree. The megatrend in US society has long been to exalt the singular person at the top with undue glory, criticism, and a hero's journey for our own narratives.

There have been exactly no trends toward sharing more of the wealth with the employees, though unionized pro sports have been the closest to achieving it. Pro sports are just about the only place where a few employees make more than their boss.

There is nothing about the upcoming years that would indicate that the winner-take-all ethos will change, and many reasons to believe it will get even stronger.

I would bet on a reversal on NIL rulings that puts the college athlete back to making $0 before the famous coaches start making a lot less money.
 



YoutubeTV is now $85 / month and the BTN know that one of the main reasons people get a subscription like that is for college football. They have an incredible amount of leverage, few competitors and a big chunk of the money being "paid" to players is essentially paid by "sponsors.

The job is going to become much more like a CEO that is out looking for private equity. They have to go on every show they can, they need a social media following and they need to find ways to drive sponsors to their program. I was thinking about this with the Bill Belichick hiring - I heard some talking head say something like "they'll even let him continue to do Manning Cast and Pat McAfee". Let him? They hired him partially BECAUSE of it. It's going to be more and more a branding gig and someone who is really good at that can be harder to replace than someone who knows football.
 

Bob_Loblaw said:
YoutubeTV is now $85 / month and the BTN know that one of the main reasons people get a subscription like that is for college football. They have an incredible amount of leverage, few competitors and a big chunk of the money being "paid" to players is essentially paid by "sponsors.

The job is going to become much more like a CEO that is out looking for private equity. They have to go on every show they can, they need a social media following and they need to find ways to drive sponsors to their program. I was thinking about this with the Bill Belichick hiring - I heard some talking head say something like "they'll even let him continue to do Manning Cast and Pat McAfee". Let him? They hired him partially BECAUSE of it. It's going to be more and more a branding gig and someone who is really good at that can be harder to replace than someone who knows football.
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This is true. I'm the sole reason in my family that we have a TV package subscription and it's only because of sports. Between free broadcast TV and a million other a la carte subscriptions like Netflix, Paramount, Prime, HBO, streaming on YouTube/Rumble, Pluto, FreeVee, etc., there's no need for a package subscription except for sports.
 

I think the Head Coach is going to keep getting paid - its a tough gig and you need to provide a incentive for Assistant Coaches to want the job. Anyone that has ever coached will 100% tell you that the best job in coaching is being a Assistant Coach.
 




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