Coach's Salaries

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I grapped this off another website, pretty interesting stats on coaches salaries at UT:

1992 Major's salary: $300,000
2006 Fulmer's salary: $2,050,000

1989 Devoe's salary: $72,000
2006 Pearl's salary: $1,100,000

2006 Summit salary: $1,125,000

Adjusted for inflation 300k in 1992 is 430k in 2006.

UT is the only school to pay the football, basketball, and women's basketball coaches over 1 million a year.
 
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I'd like to see this data compared to the profit differentials of the different sports from era to era.
 
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oklavol said:
UT is the only school to pay the football, basketball, and women's basketball coaches over 1 million a year.
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Women's basketball is going to skew that stat by quite a bit. Who else is a major program in both men's sports and has a top notch women's program?

UNC and LSU are the only two I can think of that seem to have a major commitment to all three. How many women's coaches make $1,000,000 +? It narrows the field considerably, I'm sure.
 
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Still, you have the Dean of the women's game making 1.125. I can't imagine there are very many joining her in the millionaire club. Of those few that might, there are a couple of schools--namely Duke and UConn--that that are absolutely wretched in football.

It is Summitt's salary that puts us in the rare air, and it is very difficult to find another women's program anywhere close to UT's stature at a school that also takes both men's programs very seriously.
 
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Sorry to bring this up because it is so repetitive but the first thing I think of when I see that is Fulmer is not worth 2 mil. We are getting ripped off.
 
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oklavol said:
I'm pretty sure Neyland Stadium was seating 90K+ in 92. Ticket prices, I don't know.
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If memory serves, during that time non conference games were $18 and conference games were in the $20-$22 range.

I remember getting a pair of upper level tickets to the 'bama game in '90 :banghead2: for $75. And that was considerable over face.
 
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Since Jim Wells retired last week, we are about to be paying a baseball coach over 1 million a year. We are looking at Jim Leyland and Joe Torre, possibly Joe Girardi.
 
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i don't think i said it, but i thought it. i'm sorry saban is a complete lie and a bad person
 
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kptvol said:
I'd like to see this data compared to the profit differentials of the different sports from era to era.
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Just consider that ticket prices and attendance numbers indicate only a part (and an increasingly smaller part) of revenues generated by athletic programs. TV deals, merchandise licensing, bowl payouts, increased donations, concessions, parking, and a slew of other factors have all increased significantly--some exponentially--since the Major's era.

Department revenue numbers would be a better indicator for the ratio of coaches salaries compared to the benefit of the programs, but even that is imprecise because of the difficulty discerning what actually goes into, or is left out of, the revenue numbers.
 
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Exactly and no coach would go from being with the most storied franchise in sports to being stuck in reneckville in a sport that nobody cares about.
 
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