http://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/salaries...ball/coach

There is a commercial on television where the woman planning for retirement says first she wants to run with the bulls.

In college sports, we usually say run with the big dogs.

For the purposes of MAC fandom, 'Big Dogs' are usually thought of as say conferences above the MAC but below the B1G, ACC, SEC, etc.

A-10 is the first which comes to mind. Those schools are the not the state flagship schools (VCU or George Mason shouldn't be confused with UVa or Virginia Tech; George Washington should not be confused with the behemoth in the state of Maryland, Univ. of Maryland or its rich neighbor, Georgetown.).

So what does the A-10 pay their head coaches:

VCU - 1.4M

Dayton - 1.16M

Rhode Isalnd - (paltry) 950K.

Dambrot is expected to get about 1M at Duquesne, a private Catholic college.

I believe Murphy's total package (base salary, media money, car allowance, etc.) is around 250 - 300K.

Someone mentioned maybe we could try to get Groce to come to EMU. Well, the Dayton job is open and it pays around 1M.

Head coaches at UVa, Va. Tech, and Maryland receive 2 - 3M per year.

As I posted on the main MAC board, the MAC has put a lot of $ in football at the expense of MBB and it is showing. MAC FB is pretty good these days (ask WMU and NIU who have played on New Year's Day 2013 and 2017). MAC MBB hasn't had two teams in the big dance this century (I believe that is right).

And re-consider Dayton: They paid Archie Miller over 1M to coach their MBB team, the Flyers, and he flew off to coach Indiana...

I wish I remember what Ben Braun made here at EMU in 1995/6. Based on salary trends in MBB, we'd have to pay him at least 3x as much today. My guess is that he'd cost us 500K+ today. Could we afford him?

(03-30-2017 09:07 AM)emu steve Wrote:  http://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/salaries...ball/coach

There is a commercial on television where the woman planning for retirement says first she wants to run with the bulls.

In college sports, we usually say run with the big dogs.

For the purposes of MAC fandom, 'Big Dogs' are usually thought of as say conferences above the MAC but below the B1G, ACC, SEC, etc.

A-10 is the first which comes to mind. Those schools are the not the state flagship schools (VCU or George Mason shouldn't be confused with UVa or Virginia Tech; George Washington should not be confused with the behemoth in the state of Maryland, Univ. of Maryland or its rich neighbor, Georgetown.).

So what does the A-10 pay their head coaches:

VCU - 1.4M

Dayton - 1.16M

Rhode Isalnd - (paltry) 950K.

Dambrot is expected to get about 1M at Duquesne, a private Catholic college.

I believe Murphy's total package (base salary, media money, car allowance, etc.) is around 250 - 300K.

Someone mentioned maybe we could try to get Groce to come to EMU. Well, the Dayton job is open and it pays around 1M.

Head coaches at UVa, Va. Tech, and Maryland receive 2 - 3M per year.

As I posted on the main MAC board, the MAC has put a lot of $ in football at the expense of MBB and it is showing. MAC FB is pretty good these days (ask WMU and NIU who have played on New Year's Day 2013 and 2017). MAC MBB hasn't had two teams in the big dance this century (I believe that is right).

And re-consider Dayton: They paid Archie Miller over 1M to coach their MBB team, the Flyers, and he flew off to coach Indiana...

I wish I remember what Ben Braun made here at EMU in 1995/6. Based on salary trends in MBB, we'd have to pay him at least 3x as much today. My guess is that he'd cost us 500K+ today. Could we afford him?

Steve,

I agree the focus of this conference seemingly went from basketball to football and it's paying dividends for the latter sport.

The conference needs to fix our basketball image (IE not playing four NAIA OOC games).

(03-30-2017 12:43 PM)Luckeyone Wrote:  

(03-30-2017 09:07 AM)emu steve Wrote:  http://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/salaries...ball/coach

There is a commercial on television where the woman planning for retirement says first she wants to run with the bulls.

In college sports, we usually say run with the big dogs.

For the purposes of MAC fandom, 'Big Dogs' are usually thought of as say conferences above the MAC but below the B1G, ACC, SEC, etc.

A-10 is the first which comes to mind. Those schools are the not the state flagship schools (VCU or George Mason shouldn't be confused with UVa or Virginia Tech; George Washington should not be confused with the behemoth in the state of Maryland, Univ. of Maryland or its rich neighbor, Georgetown.).

So what does the A-10 pay their head coaches:

VCU - 1.4M

Dayton - 1.16M

Rhode Isalnd - (paltry) 950K.

Dambrot is expected to get about 1M at Duquesne, a private Catholic college.

I believe Murphy's total package (base salary, media money, car allowance, etc.) is around 250 - 300K.

Someone mentioned maybe we could try to get Groce to come to EMU. Well, the Dayton job is open and it pays around 1M.

Head coaches at UVa, Va. Tech, and Maryland receive 2 - 3M per year.

As I posted on the main MAC board, the MAC has put a lot of $ in football at the expense of MBB and it is showing. MAC FB is pretty good these days (ask WMU and NIU who have played on New Year's Day 2013 and 2017). MAC MBB hasn't had two teams in the big dance this century (I believe that is right).

And re-consider Dayton: They paid Archie Miller over 1M to coach their MBB team, the Flyers, and he flew off to coach Indiana...

I wish I remember what Ben Braun made here at EMU in 1995/6. Based on salary trends in MBB, we'd have to pay him at least 3x as much today. My guess is that he'd cost us 500K+ today. Could we afford him?

Steve,

I agree the focus of this conference seemingly went from basketball to football and it's paying dividends for the latter sport.

The conference needs to fix our basketball image (IE not playing four NAIA OOC games).

The only solution I see is if MBB (each school in the MAC) could get not pennies from heaven, but say 500 - 750K / year additional.

HC salaries would need to go up to 500K / year and plenty of money for assistant coaches and guarantee money for those November and December games.

MAC ADs are robbing Peter (MBB) to pay Paul (FB).