Paying Football Coaches

A college football head coach’s pay is determined by several factors: school, conference, past success, experience, ability, even looks. Coaches at some schools benefit from additional luxuries, like shoe contracts, TV shows, country club memberships, advertising revenue, deals on cars and houses, and the like.

Some coaches are overpaid because the school can. Others are underpaid due to various reasons: longevity at the school or school budget. In comparison, some coaches seem underpaid, due to more recent high dollar contracts.

Each school and coach is different, so I’ll reserve comment on the list below: SEC, ACC, and a few other coaches of note.

4,833,333…Alabama…Saban

3,856,417…LSU…Miles

3,638,000…Arkansas…Petrino

3,500,000…Auburn…Chizik

3,221,000…Florida…Muschamp

2,939,800…Georgia…Richt

2,828,000…South Carolina…Spurrier

2,771,750…Ole Miss…Nutt

2,500,000…Mississippi State…Mullen

2,330,591…Tennessee…Dooley

1,702,489…Kentucky…Phillips

2,750,000…Florida State…Fisher

2,369,000…Georgia Tech…Johnson

2,328,000…Virginia Tech…Beamer

2,275,545…Wake Forest…Grobe

2,013,440…Maryland…Edsall

1,877,950…NC State…O’Brien

1,846,333…Clemson…Swinney

1,794,679…Virginia…London

1,762,895…Duke…Cutcliffe

1,079,410…Boston College…Spaziani

0,500,000…North Carolina…Withers

1,700,000…South Florida…Skip Holtz

1,525,000…Boise State…Peterson

1,392,043…Central Florida…O’Leary

1,022,794…Penn State…Paterno

0,589,405…Middle Tennessee State…Stockstill

0,446,800…Alabama Birmingham…Callaway

0,405,905…Florida Atlantic…Schnellenberger

0,381,000…Troy…Blakeney

Vanderbilt and Miami were not listed.