You can believe what you like, but $2 million will make you the lowest paid coach in the AAC, except for Tulsa ($1.6 million) and whatever Tulane and Temple are paying their people. Tulane paid $1.6 in 2018. Temple paid Collins $1.9 in 2019. Dykes makes $1.3 as a base but it’s performance based and gets a bonus for finding his car keys.
Youre thinking is perhaps ten years outdated. Nobody is signing to coach for Tulsa while we are in the AAC and agreeing to get paid less than what we paid Graham a decade ago. Unless they are alumni with no other realistic shot at any other job. Or some random high school guy. Or both. And we saw how that turned out.
North Texas paying $1.8. Rice paying $1.5 plus incentives. I supposed if you want to troll the Sun Belt for some guys, you’ll find reasonably competent dudes that everyone else wants who aren’t coming to Tulsa to make $200K more than the $800 they are making.
We are going to have to spend money. And protect that investment. And support that investment. And structure that investment so it looks like a commitment. Thank god we’ve got Rick.
Some of you live in really nice neighborhoods with really nice recently purchased cars in the garage. In a neighborhood where you are expected to have a nice car. And the rules don’t say you have to have one, but you have to park it in the garage. When the newest owner down the street parked his 2013 Camry in the driveway, it raised eyebrows from some neighbors, angered others, and a couple got together to get the HOA to fine him and uninvite he and his wife to holiday party. Similarly, schools have nice coaches parked inside their IPFs and new facilities. You put a $700,000 high school coach and dont build the IPF or update the facilities after 15 years and you’ll find you killed your own golden goose when they take their TV money and move on. And screw you out of home games. And send unsympathetic refs. And tattle to the NCAA. And ignore you on Twitter, etc.
*Sigh
Mormons also don't follow BYU football.
Here is a run down of coaches making less than Monty according to USA today:
70 UAB CUSA Bill Clark $1,500,000 $0 $1,500,000 $1,615,000 $0 $9,114,583
71 Wyoming MWC Craig Bohl $1,512,000 $0 $1,512,000 $1,512,000 $0 $5,025,000
72 Colorado State MWC Steve Addazio $1,500,000 $0 $1,500,000 $1,500,000 $0 $5,000,000
73 UNLV MWC Marcus Arroyo $1,500,000 $0 $1,500,000 $1,500,000 $0 $4,743,750
74 East Carolina AAC Mike Houston $1,505,000 $26,538 $1,478,462 $1,478,462 $26,538 $1,500,000
75 Southern Methodist AAC Sonny Dykes -- -- -- $1,340,314 -- --
76 Rice CUSA Mike Bloomgren -- -- -- $1,332,308 -- --
77 Fresno State MWC Kalen DeBoer $1,300,000 $0 $1,300,000 $1,300,000 $0 $5,807,833
78 Connecticut INDEP Randy Edsall $1,256,000 $0 $1,256,000 $1,256,000 $0 $0
79 Toledo MAC Jason Candle $1,175,000 $76,923 $1,098,077 $1,098,077 $76,923 $2,158,333
80 Florida International CUSA Butch Davis $1,041,863 $0 $1,041,863 $1,041,863 $0 $1,081,935
81 UL Lafayette S-Belt Billy Napier $1,005,000 $0 $1,005,000 $1,005,000 $0 $4,603,229
82 San Diego State MWC Brady Hoke $1,000,000 $0 $1,000,000 $1,000,000 $0 $5,083,333
83 Middle Tennessee CUSA Rick Stockstill $901,504 $0 $901,504 $912,504 $0 $5,820,403
84 Utah State MWC Gary Andersen $900,000 $0 $900,000 $900,000 $0 $2,081,250
85 Charlotte CUSA Will Healy $855,000 $0 $855,000 $855,000 $0 $2,609,167
86 San Jose State MWC Brent Brennan $850,000 $0 $850,000 $850,000 $0 $3,511,111
87 Central Michigan MAC Jim McElwain $815,000 $6,000 $809,000 $809,000 $6,000 $2,000,000
88 Texas State S-Belt Jake Spavital $800,000 $0 $800,000 $802,000 $0 $1,196,712
89 Arkansas State S-Belt Blake Anderson $825,000 $37,500 $787,500 $787,857 $82,500 $1,541,667
90 Old Dominion CUSA Ricky Rahne $775,000 $0 $775,000 $775,000 $0 $2,296,875
91 Hawaii MWC Todd Graham $760,000 $0 $760,000 $760,000 $0 $1,735,417
92 Marshall CUSA Doc Holliday $762,570 $7,000 $755,570 $758,320 $7,000 $452,375
93 Appalachian State S-Belt Shawn Clark $750,000 $0 $750,000 $750,000 $0 $5,000,000
94 Florida Atlantic CUSA Willie Taggart $750,000 $0 $750,000 $750,000 $0 $2,225,000
95 Western Kentucky CUSA Tyson Helton $800,000 $53,333 $746,667 $746,667 $80,000 $900,000
96 Texas-San Antonio CUSA Jeff Traylor $800,000 $57,500 $742,500 $742,500 $141,500 $2,610,379
97 New Mexico MWC Danny Gonzales $725,000 $0 $725,000 $725,000 $0 $2,000,000
98 Texas El Paso CUSA Dana Dimel $711,999 $0 $711,999 $714,499 $0 $1,542,665
99 Western Michigan MAC Tim Lester $800,000 $100,000 $700,000 $709,700 $200,000 $500,000
100 Louisiana Tech CUSA Skip Holtz $700,000 $0 $700,000 $704,000 $0 $3,733,333
101 Georgia Southern S-Belt Chad Lunsford $680,000 $0 $680,000 $680,000 $0 $1,056,667
102 Troy S-Belt Chip Lindsey $675,000 $0 $675,000 $675,000 $0 $1,730,625
103 Massachusetts INDEP Walt Bell $660,000 $31,250 $628,750 $628,750 $62,500 $1,453,750
104 Nevada MWC Jay Norvell $625,000 $0 $625,000 $625,000 $0 $2,604,167
105 Buffalo MAC Lance Leipold $624,300 $0 $624,300 $624,300 $0 $1,936,725
106 South Alabama S-Belt Steve Campbell $617,400 $0 $617,400 $617,400 $0 $348,484
107 Georgia State S-Belt Shawn Elliott $604,800 $0 $604,800 $604,800 $0 $625,000
108 Northern Illinois MAC Thomas Hammock $620,204 $52,020 $568,184 $568,184 $52,020 $1,380,693
109 Ohio MAC Frank Solich $589,928 $29,497 $560,431 $561,431 $58,993 $604,676
110 Miami (Ohio) MAC Chuck Martin $550,000 $36,667 $513,333 $513,333 $55,000 $1,500,000
111 Southern Mississippi CUSA Jay Hopson $500,000 $0 $500,000 $501,000 $0 $583,333
112 Bowling Green MAC Scot Loeffler $530,000 $50,000 $480,000 $480,000 $100,000 $1,560,417
113 Eastern Michigan MAC Chris Creighton $480,000 $20,575 $459,425 $459,425 $41,150 $800,000
114 Akron MAC Tom Arth $500,000 $45,833 $454,167 $454,167 $100,000 $921,719
115 Ball State MAC Mike Neu $468,000 $25,167 $442,833 $447,833 $45,300 $984,018
116 Kent State MAC Sean Lewis $460,000 $26,833 $433,167 $433,167 $46,000 $750,000
117 New Mexico State INDEP Doug Martin $429,000 $0 $429,000 $430,000 $0 $303,875
118 UL Monroe S-Belt Matt Viator $390,000 $0 $390,000 $390,000 $0 $175,000
119 Coastal Carolina S-Belt Jamey Chadwell $375,000 $56,0
In italics and underlined are AAC teams, in bold are the majority of the MWC.
It's not my thinking that is outdated by a decade, it's yours. Simply put we pay better than roughly half the jobs in FBS right now and exist in a league that has a pretty good grip on a NY6 bid. That is just the sort of school an up and coming coach wants to go to. Especially to a school that has proven you can win there, in this conference and against the teams before the conference. Even more so because the administration has shown patience with its staff.
Win at Tulsa get in a NY6, cash in at Virginia Tech, Nebraska, Florida St., Baylor, or Oregon who didn't even need a NY6 on the resume of the AAC coach they hired. That's with out looking at the fact that Tulsa has stepped up and spent for winning coaches as well as doing a decent job of keeping up with facilities, although our lack of an IPF is glaring.
Sorry this isn't the crap job you want it to be. To point that out further, there are 65 p5 teams and ten other AAC teams, including some assumptions TU pay ranks in the upper 70s roughly about where it belongs and that doesn't factor in the difference in cost of living from say Houston, Los Angeles, Dallas, or any Florida city. We also don't have all the bells and whistles those cities do.
This job isn't for everyone but what we pay isn't a deciding issue.