USA Today compiled a list of all the head coaches' salaries.

Link to Virginia Tech blogger's writeup of the results:

http://blogs.roanoke.com/andybittervirgi...cc-nation/

Link to the complete database:

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/f...Stories%29

Excerpt from Andy Bitter's writeup:

"Here’s a look at how the ACC stacks up. The figure listed is total pay. It doesn’t include potential bonuses in each coach’s contract:

Jimbo Fisher, Florida State — $2,750,000
Paul Johnson, Georgia Tech — $2,369,000
Frank Beamer, Virginia Tech — $2,328,000
Jim Grobe, Wake Forest — $2,275,545
Randy Edsall, Maryland — $2,013,440
Tom O’Brien, N.C. State — $1,877,950
Dabo Swinney, Clemson — $1,846,333
Mike London, Virginia — $1,794,679
David Cutcliffe, Duke — $1,762,895
Frank Spaziani, Boston College — $1,079,410
Everett Withers, North Carolina — $500,000
Al Golden, Miami — N/A"

Syracuse comes in at $1,048,625 and Pitt's isn't released.

(11-16-2011 08:42 PM)4x4hokies Wrote:  Randy Edsall, Maryland — $2,013,440

No wonder Maryland is in the hole. They are paying way too much money for a sh@tty coach. He's paid nearly twice as much as Marrone, with similar resumes.

They are not going to get any great coaches until they pay like SEC coaches. All the schools should be required to use the extra money from a new TV contract to go out and hire some big name coaches.

No doubt... You gotta spend money to make money.

(11-16-2011 09:37 PM)collegefan75750 Wrote:  They are not going to get any great coaches until they pay like SEC coaches. All the schools should be required to use the extra money from a new TV contract to go out and hire some big name coaches.

The ACC is actually quite high on the average. They aren't in the realm of the SEC but they stack up well against the PAC, B1G (outside of the heavy hitters), and B12 (outside of Texas and OU).

(11-16-2011 09:37 PM)collegefan75750 Wrote:  They are not going to get any great coaches until they pay like SEC coaches. All the schools should be required to use the extra money from a new TV contract to go out and hire some big name coaches.

A "big name coach" would be counterproductive with Syracuse. Right now we need a coach who will love the university and city. A guy like Mike Leach may get Syracuse out of the abyss faster, but then he'll bolt. I'll take Marrone getting us out slower, and staying with us longer.

(11-16-2011 10:33 PM)OrangeCrush22 Wrote:  A "big name coach" would be counterproductive with Syracuse. Right now we need a coach who will love the university and city. A guy like Mike Leach may get Syracuse out of the abyss faster, but then he'll bolt. I'll take Marrone getting us out slower, and staying with us longer.

In 115 years of football and through 25 head football coaches Clemson has hired a head coach away from a peer program twice. It worked when we hired John Heisman away from Auburn in 1900 and it was a miserable failure when we hired Ken Effin' Hatfield away from Arkansas in 1990. We have otherwise promoted from within (Frank Howard, Charley Pell, Danny Ford, Dabo Swinney) or hired a coach from a lower level program. (Red Parker, Tommy Bowden)

It goes beyond football, as that is the typical path we take when we hire a head coach for any sport.

(11-16-2011 09:06 PM)OrangeCrush22 Wrote:  

(11-16-2011 08:42 PM)4x4hokies Wrote:  Randy Edsall, Maryland — $2,013,440

No wonder Maryland is in the hole. They are paying way too much money for a sh@tty coach. He's paid nearly twice as much as Marrone, with similar resumes.

Biggest LOL on that list is Turner Gill at Kansas being paid more than Gundy at Oklahoma State.

A close second is Chris Petersen at Boise State being paid less than Joker Phillips at Kentucky.

I believe Hott Toddy is around ~$2M with the staff splitting another ~$2M, IIRC from press reports.

Pitt decided to get serious about football (again).

(11-16-2011 09:48 PM)Joey_Niklas Wrote:  No doubt... You gotta spend money to make money.

but if you didn't make money, that means you didn't spend any, right?

(11-17-2011 03:20 PM)Hoquista Wrote:  

(11-16-2011 09:48 PM)Joey_Niklas Wrote:  No doubt... You gotta spend money to make money.

but if you didn't make money, that means you didn't spend any, right?

Naw, it would be a bad investment.