Highest Paid Coaches in College Football

Men's Sports Football
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Chuck in not on the list!

  1. Kirby Smart-Pay: $13,282,580
  2. Ryan Day-Pay: $12,575,000
  3. Lincoln Riley-Pay: $11,537,560
  4. Dabo Swinney-Pay: $11,447,025
  5. Steve Sarkisian-Pay: $10,800,000
  6. Dan Lanning-Pay: $10,400,000
  7. Kalen Deboer-Pay: $10,250,000
  8. Brian Kelly-Pay: $10,175,000
  9. Bill Belichick-Pay: $10,100,000
  10. Lane Kiffin-Pay: $9,000,000

The above do not include incentives, bonuses etc.

The rest, 11-25:

11. Eli Drinkwitz, Missouri – $9,000,000
12. Josh Heupel, Tennessee – $9,000,000
13. Mark Stoops, Kentucky – $9,000,000
14. Deion Sanders, Colorado – $8,975,000*
15. Matt Rhule, Nebraska – $8,500,000*
16. James Franklin, Penn State – $8,500,000*
17. Mario Cristobal, Miami – $8,302,883
18. Curt Cignetti, Indiana – $8,300,000*
19. Bret Bielema, Illinois – $8,200,000*
20. Shane Beamer, South Carolina – $8,150,000
21. Luke Fickell, Wisconsin – $7,825,000*
22. Jedd Fisch, Washington – $7,575,024
23. Brent Venables, Oklahoma – $7,552,750
24. Billy Napier, Florida – $7,470,000
25. Kenny Dillingham, Arizona State – $7,442,000*

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Some of these dudes are absolutely robbing the bank based on their results. Others seem like relative steals all things considered with how expensive it is at the highest level.

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Mark Stoops has the greatest job. Go 1-2 games over .500, win a bowl game, get another $9 million a year.

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..and that’s pretty much what UK seems to do “year in and year out”.

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Bill b at UNC is gonna get ejected.

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My understanding is that the Kentucky brass and fans want Stoops gone (barring a miracle run of wins down the stretch), but his buyout is 37 million due in one lump sum within 60 days of his firing. So that alone may mean he’s safe.

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Pay him in Jack D!!

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Removing the last zero from the salaries would go part of the way to fix what is wrong with “intercollegiate” athletics which has become a joke.

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These things rarely go backwards, but I’m expecting the rate of growth in coaching salaries to level out now that players also are allowed to receive a portion of the value of marginal revenue created by their labor.

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If you counted Jimbo’s buyout from A&M he’d probably be first on the list…