More on Football Coaches’ Salaries

Last week I noted that top university football coaches earn $1-million or more on average. But according to a survey conducted by Diverse Issues in Higher Education, football coaches at historically black colleges and universities earn significantly less:

Roughly 90 percent of Division I public HBCU football teams, 18 in all, responded to the survey. Based on the data, Southern University’s Pete Richardson was the highest paid Division I head football coach in 2006-7, earning a base salary of $200,000 and an additional $10,000 end-of-year bonus. The lowest paid was Savannah State University’s Theo Lemon at $65,000. The average salary was roughly $133,587, while the median salary was $135,851. Most of the HBCU football teams are in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference and Southwestern Athletic Conference.

How do the salaries of head coaches at HBCU’s compare to their average counterparts? According to the USA Today 2006 analysis on compensation for Division I college football coaches, the highest-paid coach was University of Iowa’s Kirk Ferentz, who received a total compensation package of $2.8-million. Bob Stoops of Oklahoma is now the highest-paid coach in Division I at $3.6-million, according to USA Today.