Top 50 Coaches’ Salaries

Okeechobee Joe

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Clearly some of these schools need to ask for a refund.
 
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Clearly some of these schools need to ask for a refund.

If these coaches were stock... I’d buy me some Fleck, Mendenhall, and Day. Clean up the portfolio by dumping all my Muschamp, Frost, Herman, Fisher, and Harbaugh. Hold the Franklin, Mullen, Riley, Saban, and Swinney until I retire.
 

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Orgeron admittedly accepted a lower salary because he was just happy he got the job. Also, LSU committed to over pay their coordinators to give Orgeron a strong coaching staff - which offsets the savings they're getting by paying him a lower salary.

I'm sure LSU ups Orgeron's salary after winning a title, but the salaries their paying their coordinators are among the best in CFB.
 

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Ed Orgeron at #27. $4M per year.

Quite the list.

The Highest-Paid College Football Coaches in 2019, Ranked

Updated 2020 version: College Football Head Coach Salaries - USA TODAY

SEC Head Coaches Salaries:

Ed O got a HUGE raise. I'm surprised that Mason is making $3.5mil, that's more than most of the P12 head coaches.


  • Nick Saban, Alabama: $9,300,000 — No. 1
  • Ed Orgeron, LSU: $8,918,500 — No. 2
  • Jimbo Fisher, Texas A&M: $7,500,000 — No. 5
  • Kirby Smart, Georgia: $6,933,600 — No. 6
  • Gus Malzahn, Auburn: $6,927,589 — No. 7
  • Dan Mullen, Florida: $6,070,000 — No. 10
  • Mark Stoops, Kentucky: $5,013,600 — No. 15
  • Mike Leach, Mississippi State: $5,000,000 — No. 16
  • Will Muschamp, South Carolina: $4,370,000 — No. 22
  • Eliah Drinkwitz, Missouri: $3,925,000 — No. 29
  • Jeremy Pruitt, Tennessee: $3,846,000 — No. 30
  • Lane Kiffin, Ole Miss: $3,764,250 — No. 34
  • Derek Mason, Vanderbilt: $3,534,497 — No. 38
  • Sam Pittman, Arkansas: $2,900,000 — No. 53
 

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If fired after the 2020 season, buyouts:

  1. Jimbo Fisher, Texas A&M: $53,125,000
  2. Nick Saban, Alabama: $36,800,000
  3. Ed Orgeron, LSU: $23,850,000
  4. Mark Stoops, Kentucky: $23,750,000
  5. Gus Malzahn, Auburn: $21,450,000
  6. Kirby Smart, Georgia: $19,835,834
  7. Will Muschamp, South Carolina: $15,378,750
  8. Eliah Drinkwitz, Mizzou: $14,350,000
  9. Jeremy Pruitt, Tennessee: $12,880,000
  10. Dan Mullen, Florida: $12,000,000
Mississippi State’s Mike Leach, Ole Miss’s Lane Kiffin, Vanderbilt’s Derek Mason and Arkansas’s Sam Pittman did not have buyout figures listed.
 

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Im pretty sure no one has paid more money per win over the last decade than us.

We have mastered the art of paying top dollar to mediocre coaches.
 

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Worst deal is Fisher. Malzahn is no bargain. Coach O earned every penny but he’s about to become Gene Chizik. Muschamp reminds me of an axiom I’d share when consulting on hires and brokering the contract: “A few thousand won’t make a difference in the long run. If it turns out to be the wrong hire, whatever you’re paying will be too much.” Add a few zeroes.

Mullen at #10 seems about right. Top 10 program, it’s on him to move the program and himself into the top 4-5.

Kiffin looks like a bargain today. Sooner than they think they’ll be trying to pick up the pieces after he has moved on to a bigger job and left them in shambles.
 

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Worst deal is Fisher. Malzahn is no bargain. Coach O earned every penny but he’s about to become Gene Chizik. Muschamp reminds me of an axiom I’d share when consulting on hires and brokering the contract: “A few thousand won’t make a difference in the long run. If it turns out to be the wrong hire, whatever you’re paying will be too much.” Add a few zeroes.

Mullen at #10 seems about right. Top 10 program, it’s on him to move the program and himself into the top 4-5.

Kiffin looks like a bargain today. Sooner than they think they’ll be trying to pick up the pieces after he has moved on to a bigger job and left them in shambles.

Mullen is 10 now, he was 5 when he accepted that contract.
 

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Mullen at #10 seems about right. Top 10 program, it’s on him to move the program and himself into the top 4-5..
Mullen isnt close to being a top 10 coach.

He is a top 60 coach at a top 10 program.

HUGE difference.

If you have a pulse and do some semblance of even minimal preparation , you should generally be #2 in the east at UF. Even Butters and Chimp did it.
 

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Mullen isnt close to being a top 10 coach.

He is a top 60 coach at a top 5 program.

HUGE difference.

If you have a pulse and do some semblance of even minimal preparation , you should generally be #2 in the east at UF. Even Butters and Chimp did it.

Fixed it for you
 

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The buyouts are absurd. Eli Drinkwitz had been a head coach for ONE season at a G5 school and now his buyout is almost $15 million? NOBODY is trying to hire Muschamp out from under SC, makes absolutely no sense that his buyout is that high.

We need to eat Grantham's 2021 salary and move on - I'm curious if his contract has the off-set provision (we pay less if he finds another job)....probably not, since Stricklin consulted w/ the GOAT AD, I'm sure.

Take a look at the link. Chip Kelly is making almost $2 million less than Mullen and his buyout is $9 million. He must have REALLY, REALLY wanted that UCLA job.
 

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Fixed it for you

UF isn't a top 5 program anymore, especially w/ our facilities issues. Top 10 is being generous. Once the all-in-one is built, we can confidently say we're a top 10 program - right now, it's questionable. Even Kentucky, South Carolina, and UCF have stand alone's.
 

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Top 10 only because of being the HOMETEAM for most of the recruiting talent in the east. Doesnt seem to matter for the current and previous staff however.

We arent even Top 10 in the SEC for facilties and support staff, quality control staff, recruiting support staff and technology etc. We are just lucky Vandy keeps us from being last.
 

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Worst deal is Fisher. Malzahn is no bargain. Coach O earned every penny but he’s about to become Gene Chizik. Muschamp reminds me of an axiom I’d share when consulting on hires and brokering the contract: “A few thousand won’t make a difference in the long run. If it turns out to be the wrong hire, whatever you’re paying will be too much.” Add a few zeroes.

Mullen at #10 seems about right. Top 10 program, it’s on him to move the program and himself into the top 4-5.

Kiffin looks like a bargain today. Sooner than they think they’ll be trying to pick up the pieces after he has moved on to a bigger job and left them in shambles.

For some reason, the USA Today has James Franklin at #122 - he's making $6.7 million, so that would move Mullen to #11 overall.

Mario Cristobol has to be one of the best deals out there for Oregon, at $2.7 million (and he took a paycut for the China Virus).

Butters is at #87 at $815K.

Manny Diaz's salary isn't listed either - private school.

Norvell is making $4 million, but took a 10% paycut for the China Virus.

Former UF QB coach, Scott Loeffler, is making $530K at Bowling Green.
 

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Top 10 only because of being the HOMETEAM for most of the recruiting talent in the east. Doesnt seem to matter for the current and previous staff however.

We arent even Top 10 in the SEC for facilties and support staff, quality control staff, recruiting support staff and technology etc. We are just lucky Vandy keeps us from being last.

I agree on the facilities and the leadership of the athletic association. The qualitty control, recruiting, etc... is because we don't have a leader to show why these things are important. Elite coach who can sell (unlike the last three jabornies) could check the direction of that. But we have had three jabornies that much like their inability to sell to recruits can't sell to adminstration.

With the talent hot bed this is a top five job, but due to the lazy administration/coaches we are a 10-15 job. Get a real leader in the head coaching position (which might not happen for a while by the evidence we have) it shoots up back to where it should be.
 

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