Huskers Move Up List of Assistant Salaries

[Mavric]

At $3,450,000, Nebraska's assistants rank 19th nationally and third in the Big Ten in total staff pay. This ranking comes with a significant caveat — private schools, plus public schools in the state of Pennsylvania — don't have to report salaries, so they're not part of the ranking. So salaries for USC, Penn State, Northwestern, Miami, Stanford, Duke and Notre Dame and others are not reported.


But among the public schools that do report, Nebraska improved.

Last season, after paying Bo Pelini's final staff $2,709,538, Nebraska finished 31st. This year, Nebraska moved ahead of No. 25 Michigan State ($3,195,154), No. 28 Iowa ($3,049,072) and No. 32 Minnesota ($2,932,000). The Huskers were behind all three last season.

Michigan (No. 8 nationally at $4,248,667) and Ohio State (No. 9 nationally at $4,021,950) led the way among Big Ten schools. Among programs immediately surrounding Nebraska, No. 16 Missouri ($3,630,000) is primed for a decline because former coordinator Barry Odom just took the head coaching job.

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USA Today Listing

 

[benjibean1]

Yea more for less. MEH.

 

[Danimal]

Eichorst has his coach now and it's his a$$ if said coach fails. Of course the purse-string opened-up for assistant salaries.

 

[MichiganDad3]

It was ridiculous to pay so much for guys on the verge of getting fired.

 

[Dr. Strangelove]

Is this a good list to rank high on or pass others in the B1G?

Why exactly are we paying assistants the 3rd most in the conference? The article makes it seem like a positive. In certain ways, it's embarrassing that despite the money being spent on the coaching staff to perform like a top-20 team, they've failed miserably. Nebraska isn't really close to being a top-20 team on a consistent basis at this point.

What a job to be a coach at Nebraska. You get paid a nationally competitive salary and you can do things like not rotate offensive linemen or be a special teams coordinator/secondary coach and rank among the worst in the country.

 

[skersfan]

Well this certainly brought all the happy folks out.

 

[Hunter94]

yup, that report pissed everyone off......next?

 

[huskered17]

Well this certainly brought all the happy folks out.

GBR!!!

 

[Blackshirt96]

yup, that report pissed everyone off......next?

Want to really piss everyone off? Post the cost per win totals. You might just send a few

 

[darkhorse85]

Very cool! Maybe next year we can move up on the list of assistant quality. That's just me thinking out loud though.

 

[Warrior]

#159 This was the most surprising one to me!

Tom Osborne at Oregon.