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USA Today Releases List of Highest Paid College Football Coaches for 2017 season
Posted on 10/25/17 at 11:50 am
Posted on 10/25/17 at 11:50 am
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1 Alabama SEC Nick Saban$11,132,000
2 Clemson ACC Dabo Swinney $8,526,800
3 Michigan Big Ten Jim Harbaugh $7,004,000
4 Ohio State Big Ten Urban Meyer 6,431,240
5 Arizona Pac-12 Rich Rodriguez $6,031,563
6 Florida State ACC Jimbo Fisher $5,700,000
7 Stanford Pac-12 David Shaw $5,680,441
8 Texas Big 12 Tom Herman $5,486,316
9 Texas Christian Big 12 Gary Patterson $5,104,077
10 Texas A&M SEC Kevin Sumlin $5,000,000
11 Auburn SEC Gus Malzahn $4,726,960
12 Penn State Big Ten James Franklin $4,600,000
13 Iowa Big Ten Kirk Ferentz $4,550,000
14 Mississippi State SEC Dan Mullen $4,500,000
15 Florida SEC Jim McElwain $4,457,400
16 Michigan State Big Ten Mark Dantonio $4,390,492
17 Arkansas SEC Bret Bielema $4,245,000
18 Oklahoma State Big 12 Mike Gundy $4,200,000
19 Washington Pac-12 Chris Petersen $4,127,500
20 Tennessee SEC Butch Jones $4,110,000
21 Louisville ACC Bobby Petrino $3,930,434
22 Kentucky SEC Mark Stoops $3,763,600
23 Georgia SEC Kirby Smart $3,753,600
24 Utah Pac-12 Kyle Whittingham $3,687,917
25 UCLA Pac-12 Jim Mora $3,550,000
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This post was edited on 10/25/17 at 11:51 am
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Posted on 10/25/17 at 11:52 am to Bench McElroy
Had no idea Rich Rod made that much. Wow
Posted on 10/25/17 at 11:52 am to Bench McElroy
So weird we aren't on the list
Posted on 10/25/17 at 11:52 am to Bench McElroy
I should've been a football coach 
Posted on 10/25/17 at 11:52 am to Bench McElroy
quote:How did this happen?
5 Arizona Pac-12 Rich Rodriguez $6,031,563
Posted on 10/25/17 at 11:53 am to Bench McElroy
Are Stanford and TCU confirmed? Private schools don't have to make salaries public
Posted on 10/25/17 at 11:55 am to RLDSC FAN
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Had no idea Rich Rod made that much. Wow
That is what struck me also
Posted on 10/25/17 at 11:55 am to JohnnyRebel
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I should've been a football coach
I will read playbooks to my unborn son while he is in the womb.
Posted on 10/25/17 at 11:56 am to heartbreakTiger
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So weird we aren't on the list
LSU getting a straight bargain right now...
Posted on 10/25/17 at 11:58 am to Bench McElroy
I am surprised Arizona was willing to pay that much for a football coach. Too bad it's Rich Rod and not somebody good
Posted on 10/25/17 at 11:59 am to slackster
I mean honestly, yes we are. It is kind of misleading though, because we have 2 of the highest paid coordinators to complement Ed’s salary.
Posted on 10/25/17 at 11:59 am to RLDSC FAN
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Had no idea Rich Rod made that much. Wow
It's an albatross.
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Arizona football coach Rich Rodriguez’s compensation for this season puts him at a pay level otherwise occupied by people who have won at least one national championship or led a team to the Super Bowl.
But Nick Saban, Jim Harbaugh, Dabo Swinney, Urban Meyer, Jimbo Fisher, their agents — and athletics directors across the country — can exhale.
Rodriguez won’t be in their neighborhood for long.
More than half of the $6 million he is scheduled to make during his current contract year comes from one-time pay components added to his deal in 2014, then revised a year later.
Salaries database: See how much every coach makes
In addition, if Arizona’s season were to crater and the school decided to fire him before March 15, 2018, he would get none of this one-time money that is taking him from somewhere near the 40th-highest paid coach in major-college football to a place among the top five.
If Rodriguez leaves Arizona or gets fired for cause before March 15, he would forfeit all of the one-time pay.
Rodriguez is not the only one at the top of USA TODAY Sports’ survey of head coaches’ pay whose compensation for his current contract year includes an unusual amount. Saban’s $11.1 million includes a $4 million contract signing bonus, and Swinney’s $8.5 million includes $2.5 million in forms of one-time pay.
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In 2014, Rodriguez was coming off his third season at Arizona. The Wildcats had just gone 10-4, won the Pac-12 Conference South Division and played in the Fiesta Bowl. In addition, a university benefactor had made an enormous donation to the University of Arizona Foundation for purposes that specifically included providing financial incentives for Rodriguez, men’s basketball coach Sean Miller and athletics director Greg Byrne in hopes or retaining them for the long term.
In Rodriguez’s case, the aim was keeping him through the end of a new five-year contract that initially was set to run through May 31, 2019, but then extended a year later to go through May 31, 2020.
The retention provision set up a series of payment and vesting dates at which Rodriguez would become entitled to portions of the donation, which was made in units of a publicly traded master limited partnership rather than in cash. The university has declined to provide information identifying the partnership, but the Financial Times has identified it as Western Refining Logistics LP.
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Posted on 10/25/17 at 12:00 pm to slackster
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This post was edited on 10/25/17 at 12:01 pm
Posted on 10/25/17 at 12:00 pm to slackster
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LSU getting a straight bargain right now...
O should be making a MAC or Sun Belt salary until proven otherwise
Not like anyone else is gonna want to steal him
Posted on 10/25/17 at 12:00 pm to Bench McElroy
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Posted on 10/25/17 at 12:01 pm to The Pirate King
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I mean honestly, yes we are. It is kind of misleading though, because we have 2 of the highest paid coordinators to complement Ed’s salary.
Yeah, plus the money to Miles. I'm pretty sure LSU's football expenses are up in 2017.
Posted on 10/25/17 at 12:02 pm to Sevendust912
SEC rulez! 
Posted on 10/25/17 at 12:02 pm to slackster
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In addition, if Arizona’s season were to crater and the school decided to fire him before March 15, 2018
Gonna be a lot on the line for ol Rich the second half of this year
Posted on 10/25/17 at 12:03 pm to slackster
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LSU getting a straight bargain right now...
Trudat. And it's not like he's gonna get poached anytime soon either so Alleva doesn't have to worry about that angle 
Posted on 10/25/17 at 12:04 pm to Bench McElroy
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1 Alabama SEC Nick Saban$11,132,000
2 Clemson ACC Dabo Swinney $8,526,800
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12 Penn State Big Ten James Franklin $4,600,000
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18 Oklahoma State Big 12 Mike Gundy $4,200,000
19 Washington Pac-12 Chris Petersen $4,127,500
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23 Georgia SEC Kirby Smart $3,753,600
Best deals on that list
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