Crowd Sourcing M Historical Data: Coaching Salaries
Well as long as everyone is trolling twitter and flight aware on a Saturday night, I thought it might be interesting to put all this energy to a slightly more productive use. I'd like to make a pretty graph of Michigan Football Head Coach salaries over the years. There are a few sources quoting Yosts salary way back in the early 1900's, but I am not too optimistic we can find much on coaches before Bo. So here is the challenge, get figures for the head coach salaries for the Michigan Football team for as many years as possible from 1969 onward. We'll just ignore adjusting for inflation for now.
Here is a list of all UM coaches and their years of coaching. Happy Googling!
No coach 1879–1881, 1883–1890
Mike Murphy and Frank Crawford 1891
Frank Barbour 1892–1893
William McCauley 1894–1895
William Ward 1896
Gustave Ferbert 1897–1899
Langdon Lea 1900
Fielding H. Yost 1901–1923, 1925–1926
George Little 1924
Elton Wieman 1927–1928
Harry G. Kipke 1929–1937
Fritz Crisler 1938–1947
Bennie Oosterbaan 1948–1958
Bump Elliott 1959–1968
Bo Schembechler 1969–1989
Gary Moeller 1990–1994
Lloyd Carr 1995–2007
Rich Rodriguez 2008–2010
January 8th, 2011 at 10:34 PM ^
Good luck with those numbers. Older data is meaningless without others from the era to compare to, or even an average.....
January 8th, 2011 at 10:37 PM ^
fuck, even moeller got four years.....
January 8th, 2011 at 10:47 PM ^
and he also never lost more than 4 games. he also went 9-3, 10-2 and 9-0-3 in his first 3 years sooo i feel like that was an easy decision to keep him for a 4th and 5th year
January 8th, 2011 at 10:48 PM ^
And he won three Big Ten titles in that span.
January 8th, 2011 at 10:57 PM ^
You got a point, ahh I just miss Rich, especially since its become obvious DB had no plan B.
I can only check this site multiple times a day, and hope DB pulls something out of his ass that saves recruiting and michigan football.
January 8th, 2011 at 10:44 PM ^
wow. link here: http://nyti.ms/dJHAPG
On Monday, Moeller was suspended with full pay. Roberson said Moeller would now take a paid leave of absence. He said the coach was entitled to a one-year leave with his full salary of $130,000.
May 5, 1995
January 8th, 2011 at 10:50 PM ^
from 130k in 1995 to 2.5million in 2010. id say that more than covers for inflation
January 8th, 2011 at 10:51 PM ^
I don't think that was his total compensation. Usually, the head coach's "salary" is only like a quarter to a third of what his total compensation (which includes payment for the coach's show, summer camp and other things) is. Moeller was probably making like $350-400K a year.
Carr's compensation gradually increased. By the end of his tenure he was pulling in around $1.5M per year.
RR made $2.5M per season.
January 8th, 2011 at 10:46 PM ^
dreaded double post
January 8th, 2011 at 10:49 PM ^
January 8th, 2011 at 10:52 PM ^
You can look up data back to 2002 here: http://www.umsalary.info/
However, I don't believe it will show any bonuses earned. Additionally, any non-U compensation (e.g., sponsorships) wouldn't be there.
As noted by a previous poster though, it's mostly useless data without data from other schools to compare with. I would also add that the crazy inflation in coaching salaries has really only been a fairly recent phenomena (~10 yrs or so.)