Coaching Salaries
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1981 was 38 years ago.
Yikes.
someone needs to reply to this thread in 2057 that isn't a boomer. You will all be dead.
Yikes.
someone needs to reply to this thread in 2057 that isn't a boomer. You will all be dead.
They need to change back, obviously not to that level. However, the price tag for a job to coach 100 kids to play a sport is obscene
Back then those goes could also go out in public, have a beer, get dinner, dick around...and it did not get them fired.
Supply and demand is a beautiful thing. God bless capitalism. Paying a successful coach 5 mil per year is perhaps the best ROI around.
Agree, the 5 million dollar price tag today is an admittance that Scott needs to work 100 hours a week during the season and 60 in the offseason...the most uncomfortable thing about college football is these coaches "have" to be away from their families so much in order to be successful and if they have an ideology that they spend time with their families it is unacceptable as we are paying them 10x more than the governor to sacrifice for the program. If they are losing they need to appear to be sacrificing everything because the price tag is so steep.
And face it...they hear the local sports shows and read the papers...I get it, they make a ton and I wish I made what they do but good lord it would be annoying to hear the constant bitching and moaning.
I would agree, except TV money neutralizes everything....kind of a ‘system’ subsidy
I'm guessing Claiborne's salary is based on one good season in 1977, which likely boosted Curci's salary and meant they needed to pay up to find a good next coach. Note they didn't win the conference title that season, Alabama went 7-0 and was crowned champions. The SEC did weird scheduling. Kentucky was on probation that season.
John Ray 1969: 2-8 (1-6 SEC)
John Ray 1970: 2-9 (0-7 SEC)
John Ray 1971: 3-8 (1-6 SEC)
John Ray 1972: 3-8 (2-5 SEC)
Fran Curci 1973: 5-6 (3-4 SEC)
Fran Curci 1974: 6-5 (3-3 SEC)
Fran Curci 1975: 2-8-1 (0-6 SEC)
Fran Curci 1976: 8-4 (4-2 SEC)
Fran Curci 1977: 10-1 (6-0 SEC)
Fran Curci 1978: 4-6-1 (2-4 SEC)
Fran Curci 1979: 5-6 (3-3 SEC)
Fran Curci 1980: 3-8 (1-5 SEC)
Fran Curci 1981: 3-8 (2-4 SEC)
Jerry Claiborne 1982: 0-10-1 (0-6 SEC)
Jerry Claiborne 1983: 6-5-1 (2-4 SEC)
Jerry Claiborne 1984: 9-3 (3-3 SEC)
Jerry Claiborne 1985: 5-6 (1-5 SEC)
Jerry Claiborne 1986: 5-5-1 (2-4 SEC)
Jerry Claiborne 1987: 5-6 (1-5 SEC)
Jerry Claiborne 1988: 5-6 (2-5 SEC)
Jerry Claiborne 1989: 6-5 (2-5 SEC)
So Claiborne had the 5th-highest salary in college football in 1982, and went winless.