With salaries for college football assistants spiraling, coaches can be pickier about taking top jobs

[Harry]

When Arkansas State athletics director Terry Mohajir went to hire a football coach six years ago for a program that had been a reliable launching pad to the Power Five, he looked to the staff of one of the most profitable athletic departments in the country. 

At the time, Texas offensive coordinator Bryan Harsin wasn’t just a highly regarded rising assistant in college football, he was also attainable for a Sun Belt program whose total athletic budget is roughly one-fifth of schools like Texas. 

“He was making ($700,000) and that was pretty high,” Mohajir said. “It was pretty good money, but I was able to pay him more to be a head coach.” 

Fueled by an explosion in the cost of hiring and retaining top-level assistants, however, the economics of grooming the next generation of head coaches has been turned on its head in less than a decade. 

Read more:  https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/columnist/dan-wolken/2018/12/05/college-football-assistant-coaches-salaries/2206867002/

[southsideguy]

Salaries have gotten out of hand.  

[MeanGreenTexan]

1 minute ago, southsideguy said:

Salaries have gotten out of hand.  

Indeed, but I'm glad NT is able to play the game.   You have to in order to be competitive & show you're serious.

[Huff]

Good article with a mention of North Texas