Assistant Coach Salaries

[knowlesjam]

Thought this was an interesting article on the Washington State assistant coaches salaries...you have to scroll past the first two stories to get to it...

https://247sports.com/college/washi...-ticket-sales-Iowa-State-allotment-125953431/

Anyway, the story also contains a link to the USAToday's listing of all assistant coaches for the public schools...private ones like Baylor normally withhold the info...

http://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/salaries/football/assistant#

Iowa State basically ranks dead last in the conference for assistant coach salaries...behind even KU. In fact, it almost is as low as Mountain West salaries. My point is that we need to pay folks at rates that are commensurate with our conference success. If you take the third place finish this year, you would need to increase assistant coach salaries by almost $2M total. Food for thought.

 

[4theheckofit]

So are we the smartest with our money, or are those other schools severly over paying for the product they're putting on the field? Seems like West Virginia is paying a lot for assistants who can't get them any higher than a 4th place finish in the Big 12. Our "poor" coaches made most of the big 12 look silly.

 

[jsb]

We definitely need to keep up with others in salaries. The assistants and the head coach are due another raise.

However, with the exception of Heacock we have a young staff with not a whole lot of expirence.

 

[harimad]

So are we the smartest with our money, or are those other schools severly over paying for the product they're putting on the field? Seems like West Virginia is paying a lot for assistants who can't get them any higher than a 4th place finish in the Big 12. Our "poor" coaches made most of the big 12 look silly.

Doesn't matter which. Retention is strictly a competition against market prices. We aren't going to retain our coaches when they get a lot more money virtually anywhere else than here.

 

[SoapyCy]

Schools play the prisoner's dilemma game and lose. If salaries didn't increase you'd still have basically the same output, so raising salaries does nothing but raise salaries.

 

[Die4Cy]

Paying competitively for assistants is important, but the fact that these lists exist where staff value is directly correlated to their pay is partly what is wrong with the sport.

 

[khardbored]

I know it's been mentioned that CMC might deserve a new raise after this year . . . my thought is he might be better served to ask for that "raise" to go to the Assistant Coaching pool.

(and hopefully lure in a good OC!)

 

[bozclone]

Looking at the list, pretty obvious our assistants are due for a raise given the success of the program the last two years. CMC needs to be the priority though. Without him we aren’t seeing this success.

 

[KennyPratt42]

Last year the assistants got $500,000 in raises, I would guess this year it's closer to $1 or 1.5 million.

 

[dualthreat]

We can afford it. If it's money our coaches want, give it to them. Especially the experienced guys on defense.

 

[06_CY]

Pollard has already been talking to donors to get a million for Campbell and another million for assistants.