Junior college head coach pay

[uncdrew]

I teach at a high school and one of our teachers recently resigned as the head women’s volleyball coach at Norfolk State University. That’s a division one head volleyball coach who had to teach at a local high school full time because his pay was so low. A lot of times the expectation for success at some of the schools for certain sports is as low as the pay, so at least that I guess…

Interesting.

I'm a bit opposed (though it's kind of a "whatever") to college coaches getting $17 million per year, but I'm certainly more opposed to it not even being a job where one can make a modest living. Yikes.

 

[Northball]

What bothers me is the ridiculous buyout clauses in the football HC contracts. Jimbo Fisher gets $95 MILLION(!!!) to go away if A&M chooses. I would love to tell the AD that I would have gone away for only 10% of that, and my record wouldn't have been that much worse.
I get that many football programs help fund other sports, but when you get to the point of throwing away goofy dollar amounts, you can't help but think how even a small portion of that would make a huge difference in funding other sports.

 

[Northball]

Sorry, kind of veering away from the Juco level with my rant.

 

[Sweet Lou]

https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Junior-College-Softball-Coach-Salary

Looks like the pay scale varies wildly from $14K to $91K with the average being around $45K and the median being around $37K.

 

[Tango]

Looked up the salaries of a top FL JUCO from 2021. HC $77,000, assistant $32,000, and assistant $18,000. Not sure how housing and other stuff worked but housing was involved also. Not sure how you get paid for camps, lessons, vehicles, gas, and so on.

 

[uncdrew]

Sorry, kind of veering away from the Juco level with my rant.

You're right on, though. I mean really, give Jimbo $65 million buyout and then give 6 other sports $5 million to help do a few things.

 

[Towny9]

Interesting.

I'm a bit opposed (though it's kind of a "whatever") to college coaches getting $17 million per year, but I'm certainly more opposed to it not even being a job where one can make a modest living. Yikes.

Years ago my college alma mater job opened and I was interested in applying. It is a public D3 school. I would’ve made less as the head coach there than I was making teaching high school. The job required a masters degree, which I have, I just thought that was an interesting job requirement.

 

[Rolling Hard]

What bothers me is the ridiculous buyout clauses in the football HC contracts. Jimbo Fisher gets $95 MILLION(!!!) to go away if A&M chooses. I would love to tell the AD that I would have gone away for only 10% of that, and my record wouldn't have been that much worse.
I get that many football programs help fund other sports, but when you get to the point of throwing away goofy dollar amounts, you can't help but think how even a small portion of that would make a huge difference in funding other sports.

I read that and I can't help but think about how negotiations went. "Jimbo, we are offering a $85,000,000 buy out clause."
To which Jimbo angrily replies, "No way in hell you're going to low ball me like that, do you want me to walk now?"