From Steve Sarkisian to K.C. Keeler: The salary for every college football head coach in Texas

[Jonnyeagle]

When Texas hired Steve Sarkisian in 2021, his six-year $34.2 million contract didn’t even put him in the Top 10 of coaching salaries around the country. Now that he’s lifted the Longhorns to their first No. 1 ranking since 2008, he’s being paid like an elite coach.

In USA Today’s annual list of college football coaching salaries, released Wednesday, Sarkisian is the third highest-paid coach in the country behind only Georgia’s Kirby Smart ($13 million per year) and Clemson’s Dabo Swinney ($11 million). After leading Texas to the College Football Playoff, Sarkisian was rewarded with a new contract in January that pays him more than $10 million annually.

 

FULL LIST LINK:  https://www.houstonchronicle.com/sports/college/article/college-football-head-coach-salaries-texas-19840901.php

[Greenrex]

Pay Wall

[Mean Green 93-98]

12 minutes ago, Greenrex said:

Pay Wall

I read it just fine.  No, I don't have a subscription.

[GrandGreen]

Lot of ridiculous salaries.

[MAX KOCH]

11 hours ago, Greenrex said:

Pay Wall

archive.ph

[cousin oliver]

It did not paywall me.  Amazing how much they pay these guys.  And some on here bitch about NIL paying players?

[DentonLurker]

I'm kind of surprised the ponies are only paying Lashlee $2.3 million.

[Mean Green 93-98]

25 minutes ago, DentonLurker said:

I'm kind of surprised the ponies are only paying Lashlee $2.3 million.

Not much more than what they were paying June Jones 15 years ago.

[GMG_Dallas]

The USA today link used as a source has at least one clear inaccurate salary listing. Notable is Chadwell at Liberty which it reports as about $480k per year. When he went to Liberty, ESPN reported his deal was worth $4 million per year. Makes me wonder how many of the private school reported salaries are also incorrect.

 

[Mean Green 93-98]

2 minutes ago, GMG_Dallas said:

The USA today link used as a source has at least one clear inaccurate salary listing. Notable is Chadwell at Liberty which it reports as about $480k per year. When he went to Liberty, ESPN reported his deal was worth $4 million per year. Makes me wonder how many of the private school reported salaries are also incorrect.

Probably a lot.  Private colleges/universities aren't required to publicly disclose coaches' salaries.

[Udomann]

Traylor trash is pulling in a ton for his poor performance.  It definitely hurts when your QB isn't signing up for social security and Medicare next year...

Edited October 18 by Udomann

[GrandGreen]

18 minutes ago, Udomann said:

Traylor trash is pulling in a ton for his poor performance.  It definitely hurts when your QB isn't signing up for social security and Medicare next year...

I wonder why UTSA would pay Traylor that much based on the fact that they could not separate how much of their success was due to Traylor versus Harris.  

 

[GMG_Dallas]

6 minutes ago, GrandGreen said:

I wonder why UTSA would pay Traylor that much based on the fact that they could not separate how much of their success was due to Traylor versus Harris.  

 

I wonder if they expected him to be hired away by now. The buyout was at 7.5 million until 1/1/2022 at which point it dropped to 7 million. It then was set to go down by 1 million per year until year 6 of the deal. Year 6 through 10 he owes 25% of the remainder of the deal. I don't know enough about how these work but I'd imagine if he was bought out within the first 3 years with a buyout being between 5 and 7 million and without having to pay the remainder of the deal, UTSA would have essentially been reimbursed for most salaries paid to that point. Moving forward is when they really start losing money if he doesn't get bought out and hired away. A failed gamble.

[Mean Green 93-98]

5 minutes ago, GMG_Dallas said:

I wonder if they expected him to be hired away by now. 

I think everyone did.  At one point, he was the leading candidate for the Tech job, and he was on the radar of every P5 in Texas.

[GMG_Dallas]

12 minutes ago, Mean Green 93-98 said:

I think everyone did.  At one point, he was the leading candidate for the Tech job, and he was on the radar of every P5 in Texas.

Oh yeah I remember it all. Seems to me they wanted to be aggressive to recoup some money and they got a little too aggressive and scared off the suitors long enough that he's now been exposed and they're in trouble. Oh well. A couple years of suck should ground their arrogant spoiled fanbase a bit.

[Glory to the Green]

11 minutes ago, GMG_Dallas said:

A couple years of suck should ground their arrogant spoiled fanbase a bit.

[GrandGreen]

4 hours ago, Mean Green 93-98 said:

I think everyone did.  At one point, he was the leading candidate for the Tech job, and he was on the radar of every P5 in Texas.

With his record, he IMO was assumed to be a leading candidate for a lot of jobs.

However, I doubt he really was because most schools are going to have the same obvious question I posed above,  Was UTSA's success due to Harris at QB or Traylor at HC. 

His non-UTSA experience included assistant coach and coordinator at Arkansas for a couple of years and a great high school record at a lower level Texas high school.  

I think Traylor will have to rebuild UTSA's program and be successful again before he gets anything close to a P5 look,