Best bargain in B1G coaching salaries

[NUance]

Bienema. What a goofball.

The Big Ten's biggest coaching bargains

By Adam Rittenberg | ESPN.com, July 11, 2012

 

When Michigan State's Mark Dantonio and Wisconsin's Bret Bielema posed behind the Big Ten trophy a day before the inaugural football championship, they didn't only represent two of college football's blossoming coaches.

 

They also represented two of the sport's better bargains.

 

Bielema and Dantonio are ranked No. 4 and No. 5, respectively, in salary among Big Ten coaches in 2011. Both men have since been bumped down a notch after Ohio State hired Urban Meyer at $4 million per season.

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Note: This salary list is from a different article dated Nov. 2011 (with Urbanator added at top):

 

(0.5. Uranator, tOSU $4.0 million)

 

1. Kirk Ferentz, Iowa: $3.785 million (5)

 

2. Brady Hoke, Michigan: $3.254 million (8)

 

3. Bo Pelini, Nebraska: $2.775 million (13)

 

4. Bret Bielema, Wisconsin: $2,598,186 (17)

 

5. Mark Dantonio Michigan State: $1.918 million (34)

 

6. Ron Zook, Illinois: $1.755 million (39) (Not sure what the new guy makes. Or even who he is.)

 

7. Jerry Kill, Minnesota: $1.7 million (42)

 

8. Kevin Wilson, Indiana: $1.26 million (56)

 

9. Pat Fitzgerald, Northwestern: $1,189,961 (58)

 

10. Luke Fickell, Ohio State: $1.172 million (59)

 

11. Joe Paterno, Penn State: $1,022,794 (64)

 

12. Danny Hope, Purdue: $925,000 (65)

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The article didn't even mention Pelini. So I guess his salary is about the right size.

 

 

 

 

 

/edit: The typo of "Uranator" instead of "Urbanator" was inadvertent. But I think I'll go with it.

[Excel]

The Uranator....hahaha

[mrandyk]

Kirk Ferentz was highest paid coach in the conference? Guess zero conference titles in 13 years gets you a lot, but at least they won about the worst Orange Bowl ever.

[Danimal]

Thing with Ferentz's salary is that he uses-up too much of the staffing-budget. They'd be better-off if he was making a more reasonable amount and the difference was put towards a top staff that recruits balls to the wall.

 

 

Biliema deserves a little raise and Dantonio deserves a big one.