THE MOST POWERFUL DWARF IN ALL OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Okay, but I have to question the math when a 24-14 record with no BCS berths over three years at $1.1 milliion trumps 30-9 with two BCS berths (one victory) in three years at $2 million.

Pete Carrol underpaid? Right. And Tressel? Come the fuck one. Good coaches? Sure. But to call someone underpaid when they’re making 4 mill a year is just ridiculous. That’s a lot of sweater vests for Tressel and shitload of Tijuana whores for PC. Stick to being the joke of the business world, Forbes. And leave the sports news to reputable sources. Like EDSBS. You fuckin’ jag offs.

Ask and ye shall receive.

Well played Swindle.

I’m looking for something in an after dinner burrito.

Even I call bullshit on the methodology here, and my coach ended up 2nd on the list.
It seems interesting at first, but upon contemplating it for 30 seconds or so you realize how stupid it really is. Kind of like the flat tax.

They are basing pay scales on team records – which sounds okay, until on remembers that those records are purely the result of scheduling.

Of COURSE Jim Tressel is “underpaid” based on his record – but he’s been in the Big Ten during tOSUs dynasty, when everybody else has been down. And you-know-who’s been stomping Pac10 patsies for quite a few years.

I think that perhaps they should base the pay on records with strength of schedule figured in.

(BTW – Although I stand foursquare behind St. Nick, I still wish that we Loosertuscans coulda lured Mike Riley away from the west coast, all those years ago. He’d’a been a bargain…)

Man, Alan in DC is bringin’ tha Thundah!

Good Work LSU Freek.

Nice link to the Underpaid/Overpaid list even if it wasn’t that surprising.

“Come the fuck one.”

You called?

Too bad $4mm could not get over on Louisiana Monroe?

Yeah, Charlie Weis may not have produced great results in his first few years, but to call him overpaid reveals a bit of ignorance. I quote, “Last year’s three-win season—the worst for the Fighting Irish in 44 years—was the second in a 10-year contract extension for Weis, reportedly worth between $30 and $40 million over the length of the deal.” Well, during 2006-2007, ND paid Weis under $600,000, a far cry from the reported 3-4 million each year. That’s quite a small salary, especially when compared to how much ND paid Tyrone Willingham in the same year (almost $700,000). So, in 2007, ND actually paid Weis less money than their last coach. He may not be doing too well, but Weis is anything but overpaid.

From a purely business/economic standpoint, shouldn’t success be measured by profit margins? In other words, the mark of a successful coach should be measured not only by his W/L record but how that translates to increased revenue for the Athletic Dept. ROI [Return on Investment]. The Forbes analysis – while entertaining – is flawed – and pointless.

Sincerely yours,
Ty Willingham

C’mon, BJGator…..you don’t really believe that Notre Dame is paying it’s coach less than the average Conference USA coach makes, do you? You realize that a coaches salary is usually 25-35% of total compensation, and Notre Dame doesn’t report any of the extra compensation because they are an Independent school and therefore not required to. $600 grand would barely cover Charlie’s pie bill at the local confectionary.

BTW – Here is USA Today’s sortable stats (2007 figures) on what each coach makes, broken down by salary, bonus, and outside income arranged by the school:
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/2007-12-04-coaches-pay_N.htm

I hate it when people do not understand the concept of “relativism”…

I’d have to say between the amount of hours worked, and amount of money brought into the University, at $2.6 million/year Tressel IS grossly underpaid….

I mean, look at someone like Adam Dunn or any middling MLB player…

i know, 5, i wish i didn’t understand economics either :((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((

This is so typical of the little brother syndrome in the SEC regarding Alabama. Hey, LSU – y’all won a national championship with “The Taffy Man.” How about getting over the Saban thing sometime this century?

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Well, speculation is a powerful force of the mind. In my imagination, Weis could be making as much as $5-6 million a year. The fact is that, without proper data to support their claims, the $30-40 million is an imaginative, speculative guess by the media. My main point was that ND’s former coach was paid more than their current coach that year, more than two years removed from the firing of the former coach.

Of course, I can offer this little tidbit. When Lou Holtz was hired at ND, Father Joyce (the president at the time) said that, at Notre Dame, the head football coach would never make more than the university president. I’m pretty sure things have changed, but who really knows?

Reggie. F. Nelson. I hate Nick Saban.

Bobby Bowden should be in the overpaid coaches list. He’s been a figurehead for the last five years and hasn’t done a particularly good job at it.

As far as I have seen, if they are paying Weis $100 and a large bag of Doritos, it is still too much.

While Nikolai Saban could undoubtedly kick Sascha Putin’s ass in a 175 kg-weight-class cage fight to the death, one must admit that the latter has had much more recent success in dominating states with poplulations under 4.5M.