Salaries of NCAA Tournament Coaches

by **Ace Dad** » March 31st, 2011, 2:13 am

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/ ... tabase.htm

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by **MSUDuo** » March 31st, 2011, 9:53 am

Ace Dad wrote:http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/mensbasketball/2011-coaches-salary-database.htm

Thought I read somewhere that Steven's base was around $900k with everything being around $1.2 million...

by **DoubleJayAlum** » March 31st, 2011, 10:45 am

Unbelievable that of the schools reporting, only six coaches get paid LESS than Lansing.

by **Unsmooth Moment** » March 31st, 2011, 1:29 pm

Roy Williams salary kind of surprised me.

by **Haha** » March 31st, 2011, 2:42 pm

Rick Pitino money is retarded and so is the school for paying him that. They are in the big east, they are louisville, they can get somebody just as good for a lot lot less.

by **SycamoreFanatic** » March 31st, 2011, 3:03 pm

It would be great if we could pay Lansing more but until that time he can still have a damned good quality of life in this area on that salary. He is way ahead of the average worker around here and his wife also has a pretty hi-profile job at the university so don't place the almighty $$$$$$$ as the overriding factor as to how long he might stay around. And as we all know when the right "big team" comes calling with an open checkbook our coaches are gone anyway. Enjoy the moment!

:Cheers:

by **dgreenwell3** » March 31st, 2011, 3:24 pm

clearly we need to pay lansing more. He was an unknown entity this past season so to be honest why would we pay him more b4 this season.

by **LMS** » March 31st, 2011, 3:36 pm

dgreenwell3 wrote:clearly we need to pay lansing more. He was an unknown entity this past season so to be honest why would we pay him more b4 this season.

Why? How about because you lost your last coach for the same reason?

by **St. Sebastian** » March 31st, 2011, 5:35 pm

LMS wrote:
dgreenwell3 wrote:clearly we need to pay lansing more. He was an unknown entity this past season so to be honest why would we pay him more b4 this season.

Why? How about because you lost your last coach for the same reason?

Not really sure how this continues to get so much traction.

McKenna made up his mind he wanted out of Indiana State when the Creighton job became open last year. He badly wanted that job. And when he didn't get it, he was not only crushed, but he had mentally checked out at that point as far as being Indiana State's coach. Many think he didn't have the stomach to be a Division I coach anyhow as time went on. Money was a convenient way to paint his departure solely on that basis, but it wasn't the only reason.

Did it help that Nike had a bunch of money to throw at McKenna? And that his buddy Dana Altman was at Oregon? Sure. No one in their right mind begrudges him for making a move that sets him up better financially. That said, if McKenna thought he was walking into a Creighton-like financial situation at Indiana State, he was severely fooling himself.

Indiana State is paying coaches what it can afford ... which isn't much. It's a teachers' school that doesn't have a rich donor base. Moreover, it pays the price for 50 years of animosity between the university and the city of Terre Haute, of which both parties have been at fault.

ISU will pay a price for that as coaches leave for higher-paying jobs, but frankly, its better than paying someone way over the school's ability to pay and then being stuck with a lemon, a la, Southern Illinois.

There's going to be a reckoning for all of these schools over-paying for coaches. There already has been at SIU and it should be a cautionary tale to other schools in the league.

The silly season of college basketball really is silly, from cash-strapped universities falling all over themselves to hand millions of dollars to barely-proven coaches, to fans (many of whom don't contribute dime one to their booster clubs, etc.) who seem to think prestige is tied solely to salary.

Fans become experts this time of year at spending money institutions don't really have. And very few MVC schools, if any of them, can afford to hang forever in the high six-figure or seven-figure salary range. Not in this economy.