It would be revealing to know what the 12 remaining MAC teams pay their head football and men's hoops coaches.

NIU pays head football coach Joe Novak a paltry $140,000. Head basketball coach Rob Judson is payed the same.

By contrast, newly named head coach George O'Leary at UCF will be paid $700,000 base per season for five years. Nick Saban of LSU will net over $2.6 million per under his new deal.

Those of you connected to the other MAC schools can you post what your coaches make!!!

O'Leary has incentives that could make his contract worth up to 1.1 million per season.

You gotta be kidding me? None of the rest of you from other schools knows what in the heck your coaches make? Is the information state secret?

From the Toledo Blade:

Re: football coach Tom Amstutz:

Quote:His base salary of $128,544 per year did not change. The marketing compensation Amstutz receives - money for television and radio appearances and speaking engagements - was increased from $70,000 to $80,000 per year, with the additional money coming from private funds.

Some of the incentives in Amstutz's contract were re-written to reflect the changes in the MAC's bowl relationships. Amstutz will receive an additional $20,000 if the Rockets win the West Division and the MAC championship game, and a bonus of 10 percent of his base salary if they play in a bowl game.

Re: Stan Joplin:

Quote:He is in the second year of a five-year contract extension that runs through the 2005-06 season. His base salary is $115,000 and he is paid an additional $20,000 in marketing income.

Joplin also has an academic incentive bonus in his contract that calls for him to earn five percent of his base salary if the team GPA is 2.5 or above for the year. He reached that bonus of $5,750 last season.

Does that help?

Wait... I have not looked up any of the Salaries.. but the college pays a base salary of $xxx amount, but then the coach makes additional money, like Tom Amstutz for commercials and other stuff...

I'll bet Tom Amstutz nets over a million a year... personally, i would not be a football coach... I'd rather be a porn star... :eek: :rofl:

hey, if you're gonna dream of a job you're unqualified for, doesn't matter which you choose! :D

niu85alum Wrote:It would be revealing to know what the 12 remaining MAC teams pay their head football and men's hoops coaches. 

NIU pays head football coach Joe Novak a paltry $140,000.  Head basketball coach Rob Judson is payed the same. 

By contrast, newly named head coach George O'Leary at UCF will be paid $700,000 base per season for five years.  Nick Saban of LSU will net over $2.6 million per under his new deal. 

Those of you connected to the other MAC schools can you post what your coaches make!!!

Not sure how accurate this information is, but I did find info on a few schools.

Novak makes a base of $142,104. NIU did not release any info about what money, if any, he makes from performance bonuses, TV/radio appearances, or if he gets a car or golf club memberships, etc.


Brandon from BG makes a base of $130K, with an additional $20K from radio/TV appearances. He gets a golf membership, but no car. He also gets performance bonuses for:

MAC West title, MAC Championship, plus a bowl game victory = $2,000
MAC coach of the year: $1,000
Graduation rate of 70% or higher: $2,000
Average home attendance greater than 17K: $2,000
Average home attendance greater than 22K: $4,000 (includes the $2K for getting over 17K in attendance)
= $159,000 total potential salary + golf club membership


Hoeppner's base is $117,880. The university either did not make his TV/radio compensation available, or he doesn't get any. He gets a car and a golf membership. He also gets a $2,500 incentive compensation payment, $2,000 Wilson contract payment, and $4,000 Nike contract payment = $126,380 + car(s) + golf club membership.


According the newspaper reports, new CMU coach Brian Kelly will make $170K (not sure how structured, and if this includes the value of cars, golf memberships, tv/radio money etc.) to be the head coach, offensive coordinator, and QB coach.

WMU's Gary Darnell's base is $140K, and with radio/tv money, performance incentives (top 25, bowl game appearance, graduation rate, MAC championship, coaching honors, and attendance), and university incentives, it could boost his total potential compensation to over $225K.

Thanks for the info. Actually the information on Hoeppner is no longer true. Though I don't know the details (that's why I'm asking), Miami reupped him to a significantly improved deal after the regular season and before their bowl game. My guess is he got a major boost.

niu85alum Wrote:Thanks for the info. Actually the information on Hoeppner is no longer true. Though I don't know the details (that's why I'm asking), Miami reupped him to a significantly improved deal after the regular season and before their bowl game. My guess is he got a major boost.

I would certainly hope so!

Karl... I am over qualified...

as for the salaries... I'll be the coach of Buffalo is over paid...

Both Knorr and O'shea make 150,000 base salary. They have incentives in their contracts worth another 100,000 for a total of 250,000.

They also have buyout clauses stating that if they are fired, and take a job somewhere else for less money......Ohio will pay the difference to ensure they get their 150,000.

OU bought out Larry Hunter's contract for 133,000 3 years ago. Larry took the year off, and received the 133k before landing an assistant job at NCState the next year.


The MAC has this unbroken rule (untill UCF) of keeping the salaries low.

Toledo Rockets... please help me out... but, I swear I read that Dan Simmeral made about 1mil a year back when he got fired... of course he was doing all of the Kroger Commercials... but, that figure stood out in my mind... I thought, he made an aweful lot of money for someone who sucked as a coach

EMU: Jeff Genyk: $135,000
CMU: Brian Kelly: 170,000

are we talking base salary... or total net income?

cause, let's take a look at John Cooper... since i live in Columbus, Oh (at least for two more weeks)... anyway, he made a base salary... but, then made a killing from endorsements and such...

Tom Amstutz got a kick back from those bobble head dolls...

KingBob Wrote:Tom Amstutz got a kick back from those bobble head dolls...

Its starring at me right now :rofl:

oh, really maumee... so, a bobble head... is starring at you... in your words... I didn't really want to know that... :chair:

KingBob Wrote:oh, really maumee... so, a bobble head... is starring at you... in your words... I didn't really want to know that... :chair:

He looks like he just got back from the buffett :D

I thought I saw somewhere that Coach Hoeppner of Miami is now making around $170K per.

MaumeeRocket Wrote:

KingBob Wrote:oh, really maumee...  so, a bobble head... is starring at you... in your words...  I didn't really want to know that...  :chair: 

He looks like he just got back from the buffett :D

It's an excellent likeness of the real thing.... :D