Tyndall actually will only be the ninth-highest paid basketball coach of the 12 known salaries in the $ec. Successful c-usa coaches are going to always be easy pickings for an $ec AD looking to make a cheap hire...

from an article in the local murfreesboro paper:

Conference USA Coaching Salaries

Annual salaries of 2014-15 men’s basketball coaches, per various reports
Coach (School) Annual Salary
Tim Floyd (UTEP) $600,000
Michael White (La Tech) $600,000
TBA (Southern Miss) $500,000-600,000*
Ray Harper (WKU) $500,000
Jerod Haase (UAB) $475,000
Jeff Jones (Old Dominion) $440,000
Tony Benford (North Texas) $400,000
Kermit Davis (MTSU) $400,000
Michael Curry (FAU) $325,000
TBA (Marshall) $285,755*
Anthony Evans (FIU) $225,000
Alan Major (Charlotte) Not reported
Mike Rhoades (Rice) Not reported
Brooks Thompson (UTSA) Not reported
* Based on previous coach’s salary and/or projected offer to new coach

Man - some of those schools need to step up their financial commitment to basketball. C-USA shouldn't have any coaches making below $400k

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Herrion's base was $285,755. His total package was worth about $400,000.

(04-24-2014 07:20 AM)goldenhurricane2 Wrote:  Man - some of those schools need to step up their financial commitment to basketball. C-USA shouldn't have any coaches making below $400k

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With diminishing tourney credits in C-USA, I don't think you'll see salaries grow at a fast pace.

(04-24-2014 07:20 AM)goldenhurricane2 Wrote:  Man - some of those schools need to step up their financial commitment to basketball. C-USA shouldn't have any coaches making below $400k

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Some of those figures are probably very under what the actual pay is. I know at ODU a good portion of the mbb HC's "salary" is paid through the ODAF and is therefore not counted as salary per se.

Regarding how much money it takes to retain a quality mbb HC it is interesting to me that the non-BCS schools who seem to be able to compete well with BCS offers for their coaches are mostly basketball centric schools such as VCU, and Gonzaga. I think there are varying motivating factors that make one coach want to go to a BCS school, and another stay at a school with less brand name recognition.

Of course salary is always going to be right at the top, but there is also usually less pressure, and the ability to be the big fish in the little pond that a coach at a non-BCS school enjoys. I think many of the non-football schools feel more comfortable budgeting more resources for their mbb coach as that is their only potential revenue producing athletic concern, whereas we football playing schools have a much more complicated financial balancing act to pull off. In order for my school to field a good football program, that is a tradeoff that I would have them make every time.

(04-24-2014 09:32 AM)paintedblue Wrote:  

(04-24-2014 07:20 AM)goldenhurricane2 Wrote:  Man - some of those schools need to step up their financial commitment to basketball. C-USA shouldn't have any coaches making below $400k

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Some of those figures are probably very under what the actual pay is. I know at ODU a good portion of the mbb HC is paid through the ODAF and is therefore not counted as salary per se.

Regarding how much money it takes to retain a quality mbb HC it is interesting to me that the non-BCS schools who seem to be able to compete well with BCS offers for their coaches are mostly basketball centric schools such as VCU, and Gonzaga. I think there are varying motivating factors that make one coach want to go to a BCS school, and another stay at a school with less brand name recognition.

Of course salary is always going to be right at the top, but there is also usually less pressure, and the ability to be the big fish in the little pond that a coach at a non-BCS school enjoys. I think many of the non-football schools feel more comfortable budgeting more resources for their mbb coach as that is their only potential revenue producing athletic concern, whereas we football playing schools have a much more complicated financial balancing act to pull off. In order for my school to field a good football program, that is a tradeoff that I would have them make every time.

This is very true. During my internship, at the Ted, it was estimated that Blaine Taylor was making $800k+ during the height of his ODU tenure.

Alan Major's base is something like $240,000 I think. He makes a minimum of 400,000/yr, but if he actually met his incentives (even those that aren't really all that unattainable), he'd make around $600,000/yr.

VCU, Wichita, and the Zags can afford to pay their basketball coach 1.5 million and up because they're not supporting a 2 million dollar football staff..or the other few million it takes each year for football.

Unless we (C-USA) can go up into the 1.5 million range we can not compete with any conference above us...including the AAC. Or at least the top half of that conference. So if you can't compete money wise with the conferences that are most likely to come calling for your coach...when he wins. There is no reason to go over the $600,000 to $700,000 range.

The same goes for football, there's a ceiling we can pay and there is no reason to get close to the ceiling if others in the group of conferences you are competing with for coaches can't. A million dollars extra a year will get most coaches to take another job...even if they love it at the school they're at.

Every coach knows he is 3 avg to bad seasons away from getting fired. That goes for their current job or a new job that pays twice and sometimes three times as much.

Kermit only makes 400,000!?

(04-24-2014 12:15 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  VCU, Wichita, and the Zags can afford to pay their basketball coach 1.5 million and up because they're not supporting a 2 million dollar football staff..or the other few million it takes each year for football.Unless we (C-USA) can go up into the 1.5 million range we can not compete with any conference above us...including the AAC. Or at least the top half of that conference. So if you can't compete money wise with the conferences that are most likely to come calling for your coach...when he wins. There is no reason to go over the $600,000 to $700,000 range.

The same goes for football, there's a ceiling we can pay and there is no reason to get close to the ceiling if others in the group of conferences you are competing with for coaches can't. A million dollars extra a year will get most coaches to take another job...even if they love it at the school they're at.

Every coach knows he is 3 avg to bad seasons away from getting fired. That goes for their current job or a new job that pays twice and sometimes three times as much.

I am thinking specifically of VCU and the A-10, but I believe the TV money difference between it and C-USA is pretty significant because of football. I am sure there are other 49ers fans on here that can speak more specifically than I can about this, but not having football is not necessarily going to allow you to spend more on basketball. At least that is what I believe we are seeing.

Those are based salaries. Not included are bonuses (e.g. making the NCAA's, graduating players), TV/radio shows, endorsements, etc.

$600K/yr in Ruston will go a long way for Mike White

Wow! No wonder the big programs try to take our coaches. We pay our basketball coaches what the big schools pay their tennis coaches.

(04-24-2014 02:12 PM)FAUAEPi Wrote:  Kermit only makes 400,000!?

And yet no takers.

(04-24-2014 02:39 PM)techdawg88 Wrote:  $600K/yr in Ruston will go a long way for Mike White

That's just the base salary without the bonuses