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re: Bret Bielema 14th highest paid football coach in country, 3rd in CFB
Posted on 12/11/13 at 2:36 pm to piggidyphish
Posted on 12/11/13 at 2:36 pm to piggidyphish
Yes, that's some crazy list that came out earlier this fall that counts his buyout and also takes in account him hitting every bonus in his contract, etc. He really makes 3.2 mil.
Posted on 12/11/13 at 2:37 pm to JohnnyBob
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He really makes 3.2 mil.
Shhhh, let the bandwagoners who haven't posted in 2 years have their fun.
Posted on 12/11/13 at 2:38 pm to JohnnyBob
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Yes, that's some crazy list that came out earlier this fall that counts his buyout and also takes in account him hitting every bonus in his contract, etc. He really makes 3.2 mil.
pretty sure that's how Butch Jones' contract works as well. A very large portion of it is incentive based.
regardless, coaches' salaries have gotten completely out of control. The market has completely screwed itself when every big name coach wouldn't accept a job at a new school unless he was guaranteed to be one of the top paid coach in CFB and schools were more than willing to let it happen. Out of desperation to win or whatever you want to call it, still amazing. First time I remember even hearing that being an incentive or anything of the like was in 2003 (I'm sure it happened before) when LSU had an incentive for Saban that would make him the highest paid coach with a national title. When he won....his raise was to 2.4 million a year. Crazy to think only 10 years ago the highest paid coach in football was making less than half of what the highest paid is now, and even more so that the highest salary 10 years ago would be at the very bottom of the SEC right now.
I know with TV contracts being much greater now has something to do with it, but let's not pretend like the economy is booming or anything. Just seems ridiculous to me at how out of control things have gotten in that context. Nick Saban's raise for his first SEC title was $400k, his raise for a national title $800k. High Freeze got a $1 million raise yesterday for two bowl invites. Unreal
This post was edited on 12/11/13 at 2:46 pm
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