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Fifteen Houston- area HS football coaches make at least $100k
Posted on 7/19/16 at 11:54 am
Posted on 7/19/16 at 11:54 am
Fifteen Houston- area football coaches make at least $100k
Not a bad living if you can get it. Anyone know if Texas coaches are required to teach as well?
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Think that one must take a vow of poverty to serve as a high school coach? Think again.
According to data collected by the Houston Chronicle, 15 different high school football coaches in Houston and its immediate suburbs earn more than $100,000 per year. Those figures don’t even include extra income gained from football camps or other efforts on the part of the coaches themselves.
Naturally, a six-figure income is not the be-all, end-all proof of a professional’s success. But it is enlightening, and shows where the focus is for a number of football programs in one of America’s largest cities, regardless of how successful they are.
For the record, all of the head coaches in Katy, a Houston suburb, have salaries that top the century mark. And the lowest salary among the 61 compiled by the Chronicle was still $75,000, hardly a ticket to abject poverty.
The true test of relative wage inflation in the coaching ranks comes when the salaries for football coaches are compared to those of teachers. According to this chart, the mean salary for a secondary school educator in the state of Texas is $51,800; in the Houston-Sugar Land area specifically that number increases to $52,370.
What does that tell us? That some Houston schools view their football coaches are roughly twice as valuable as an average teacher. Given the resources, attention and public pride high school football generates, they may have a point. Or, perhaps, these salaries are just the latest proof that scholastic athletics have grown way out of hand. You decide.
Not a bad living if you can get it. Anyone know if Texas coaches are required to teach as well?
This post was edited on 7/19/16 at 12:06 pm
Posted on 7/19/16 at 11:55 am to SaturdayTraditions
Most of them have better coaching staffs than Texas A&M
Posted on 7/19/16 at 11:55 am to SaturdayTraditions
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Anyone know if Texas coaches are required to teach as well?
Most of the school's that I've dealt with have every coach teaching other than the athletic director and head coach.
Posted on 7/19/16 at 12:06 pm to SaturdayTraditions
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What does that tell us? That some Houston schools view their football coaches are roughly twice as valuable as an average teacher. Given the resources, attention and public pride high school football generates, they may have a point. Or, perhaps, these salaries are just the latest proof that scholastic athletics have grown way out of hand. You decide.
I certainly have no clue about Houston high school football, but maybe the teams generates revenue to support the salaries?
Posted on 7/19/16 at 12:09 pm to SaturdayTraditions
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What does that tell us? That some Houston schools view their football coaches are roughly twice as valuable as an average teacher.
Maybe it's because they do FAR MORE WORK than the average teacher.
Posted on 7/19/16 at 12:28 pm to SaturdayTraditions
What a slanted article. A few issues I have with it and I can only compare it to Georgia. Most head football coaches that I've known were smart enough to get their masters and specialist and can add on an extra $15000 a year. Plus, the ones who make six figures here have an 11 month contract because they are at the school so much and to attract the higher profile coaches. Add in the fact that most of them have been teaching for a minimum of 15 years and you can see where the money begins to grow.
Posted on 7/19/16 at 2:04 pm to SaturdayTraditions
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Not a bad living if you can get it. Anyone know if Texas coaches are required to teach as well?
They all teach history
Posted on 7/19/16 at 2:21 pm to SaturdayTraditions
How generous of the schools to pay their coaches so well.
Posted on 7/19/16 at 2:43 pm to SaturdayTraditions
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Taylor High School Alief ISD Coach: JD Jordan Salary: $98,634.86
This is a joke. He's been in Katy's shadow since he arrived.
Posted on 7/19/16 at 4:19 pm to SaturdayTraditions
I'm pretty certain that when my wife taught at a Katy ISD HS, the head football coach taught a couple of PE classes, and was also the Athletic Director. That seems like a common thing at least in the Houston area.
Also, in the picture in the USA Today article, the black guy to the right of the coach, I'm fairly certain that's the superintendent for Katy ISD.
Also, in the picture in the USA Today article, the black guy to the right of the coach, I'm fairly certain that's the superintendent for Katy ISD.
Posted on 7/19/16 at 4:44 pm to SaturdayTraditions
- Dale Weiner is there or more.
Posted on 7/21/16 at 12:26 pm to SaturdayTraditions
Football is important in Texas. If you want people to send their kids to their school, you better have a successful program. They are worth every penny if they deliver, and deserve the criticism if they don't.
Posted on 7/21/16 at 2:43 pm to SaturdayTraditions
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Anyone know if Texas coaches are required to teach as well?
I went to a 5A (now it goes up to 6A) Houston area high school. The head coach, who is most of the time also the AD (ours was not), was not required to teach a class. Our head coach did help out with the special needs classes though, but that was only part of the day and he did that by choice, not requirement. The OC and DC did teach classes, but only had to coach one sport, that being football. All of our other football coaches had to teach, and had to coach another sport in the spring, as well as football in the fall.
This post was edited on 7/21/16 at 2:47 pm
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