Trending

Quick Links:

SEC Rant

•SEC Recruiting

•More Sports

•Politics

•SEC OT

•SEC Tickets

•Outdoors

•Travel

•Food/Drink

...

LSU DC Blake Baker Is The Highest Paid Assistant Coach In College Football

by Staff Reporter

December 12, 202427 Comments

LSU Sports Photography

According to the USA Today Coaches Salaries database, LSU defensive coordinator and linebacker coach Blake Baker is the highest-paid assistant coach in College Football, making $2,500,000 a year.

College Football Assistant Coach Salaries - Top 10:
1. Blake Baker - LSU DC - $2,500,000
2. Wink Martindale - Michigan DC - $2,300,000
3. Jim Knowles - Ohio State DC - $2,200,000
4. Pete Golding - Ole Miss - DC $2,150,000
5. Andy Ludwig - Utah OC - $2,050,000
6. Adam Fuller - Florida State DC - $2,015,000
7. Glenn Schumann - Georgia DC - $2,003,000
8. Chip Kelly - Ohio State OC - $2,000,000
9. Morgan Scalley - Utah DC - $2,000,000
10. Tosh Lupoi - Oregon DC - $1,900,000

Here's where other LSU assistant coaches landed on the list:

41. Bo Davis - $1,250,000
72. Frank Wilson - $1,000,000
84. Joe Sloan - $950,000
85. Cortez Hankton - $950,000
93. Brad Davis - $900,000
160. Kevin Peoples - $700,000
299. Slade Nagle - $500,000 (Left staff to take Houston OC job)
470. Jake Olsen - $350,000
686. Corey Raymond - $200,000 (Expected to make $755,000 per year after his first year)

Filed Under: LSU Football

Watch: LSU WR Kyle Parker Shows Off Impressive Footwork In Offseason Training Video

Kickoff Times Announced For LSU's First Two Home Games Of The 2025 Season

Brian Kelly On Future Scheduling: “We Want To Play Big Ten Schools”

Brian Kelly Provides Good Update On Whit Weeks & Harold Perkins Jr.

Originally published on TigerDroppings.com

27 Comments

Recent Oldest Top

You must be logged in to comment. |

cajunmud•6 months

Didn't we know this when he took the job? I thought I was gonna read that we gave him a raise cause someone was after him. Didn't I hear something about him and Tulane?

Hoovertigah•6 months

He definitely earned it. Look at what he turned around. Drastic difference. If we could run the ball and stop the running qb, we are top 12

chaso•6 months

This is why everyone is leaving, he's fired then pd 3x to come back along with the other coaches fired and brought back and every top 10 coach paid less is in the playoffs not all Baker's fault maybe he should be head coach with same salary

barry•6 months

english please?

t308madness•6 months

1. Baker was never at LSU before this year. 2. He wasn't fired, left Mizzouri. 3. What other coachs were fired and brought back?

BTRDD•6 months

The preparation, or lack there of, for teh TAM game was where this team unraveled. Baker should give some of that $ back.

chaso•6 months

Maybe it's the other coaches especially F Wilson and the other coaches getting less than Baker

chaso•6 months

And all together they make less than the head coach

Tigers4Lyfe•6 months

Disagree. It unraveled at that game sure, but they were very well prepared.

I'm not certain it's wise to give a lot of time preparing for a backup QB. If they had, maybe the starter does better because they weren't so prepared for him.

BTRDD•6 months

I'm not sure if he earned it this year.

t308madness•6 months

They were last, triple digits on Def last year, this year 59. I think he earned it.

jafari rastaman•6 months

I’m thinking about having my damn son get into coaching.

Riolobo•6 months

Milroe just scored again.

Tiger4life5803•6 months

Still got alot of salary to prove. Was good to see some glimmers of improvement throughout the season but $2.5MM, gotta see consistency.

Jdublsu•6 months

Better pay Corey Raymond

StGeorgeTiger•6 months

How much money do you think a secondary coach should make?? $755K isn’t enough??

PureBlood•6 months

CBK be like "You get 200k... and if you dont organize any BLM protests, I'll pay you another 550k."

CrystalPreserves•6 months

LSU is monumentally overpaying for a 3-5 loss per year program. Fire bk

Woodman•6 months

The bulk of them have been employed less than one year. They also have not had their handpicked players nor players existing on the team designed to play the style/system of the present coaches?

If you turn out half of your leaders and a third of your employees at your company, do you expect the operation not to have a sizable number of issues?

CrystalPreserves•6 months

15 years ago you woulda had valid points. There’s no player consistency from year to year now. The few highly rated 4 and 5 star players now are just at LSU playing football on 1 year deals. From the time they show up to camp until the season ends it’s 6 months or so and these are all temporary hires on 1 season deals. Coaches can’t build or maintain anything like that.

LSU is overpaying its coaches and has unreasonable expectations on what these coaches can achieve here. Bigtime overpaying.

Mr.Perfect•6 months

You sound like Lou Tepper

Cosmo•6 months

Assistants making that much is insane

stang14•6 months

Rediculous. I beginning to care less and less for college football

TSS4LSU•6 months

2, 3, and 6 are ripping off their schools

Woodman•6 months

Imagine if you were a University of Utah fan . . .

Big Gorilla•6 months

That’s a lot of money flushed down the toilet.

panzer•6 months

Ridiculous cost for what they are accomplishing