coach salary

After Brian's Mailbag post on the front page, and some debate in the comments about the nature of Title IX's influence in equal funding for coach's salaries, I went all the way through the database here from the Michigan Athletic Department. On top of this, I took a look at the law itself, and have concluded that coaches salaries do not have to be equivalent, both through reading the law and through anecdotal evidence as told by UM's salaries.

aaamichfan inspired a different look at this in addition: factoring out RR and Beilein. In that case the figures change to:

Edited again to factor out all FB/MBB and Men's Hockey assistants, as well as Red. As positive numbers were advantage men previously, negative numbers are advantage women.

I'm not trying to make a political or value judgement based on this. Certainly, on the top end at least, the men's sports salaries are justified based on revenue generated and salary levels at comparable institutions. This data is from the RR era and I did not include S&C coaches in the figures. I excluded S&C because a) it's hard to determine what sport they are attached to based on the salary database and b) I didn't think S&C coaches count towards the "equity" parts of Title IX, unless Michigan was employing undergrad assistants or something for women's sports, which obviously they are not.

One other note, it was impossible to tell who two of the coaches were. This could affect the data in either direction, but the salaries were both on the low end, and there were only two. So, at most a ~$50,000 swing, though it is very possible both were S&C coaches and therefore wouldn't have been included anyway.

Edited to fix whatever happened with the table, my apologies. Edited again to add the second table.

I missed this one, but happened to catch it on Dr. Saturday (whose text is below). It is bad enough USC stomps the Big Ten, do they have to eff up the coaching ranks as well? Carroll's $1M OC, Sarkisian's $900k DC and now this with Kiffin at UT? $400k for an OLB coach? Isn't that more than we will pay our new DC?

"Clearly, though, UT is committed to fortifying that limb, as its final push to fill out Kiffin's coaching staff proved late last week. Consider that at the start of last season, the most expensive assistant coach in the country was Florida State's offensive coordinator/coach-in-waiting Jimbo Fisher, at a base salary of $600,000. Tennessee not only nearly doubled that for Kiffin's grizzled dad, Monte, to come on as defensive coordinator (he'll make a little more than $1 million), but also topped it for Ed Orgeron's noted recruiting prowess (Coach O will bring in $650,000 as recruiting coordinator and defensive line coach). Last week, they went for broke to lure Alabama's ace recruiter, Lance Thompson, for $400,000 -- as an outside linebackers coach who'll play second fiddle to Orgeron on the recruiting trail. That's well over $2 million for three assistants, more than most schools -- even SEC schools -- allocate for their entire staff of assistants."