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Big Ten football salaries list
The University of Iowa's head coach Kirk Ferentz, (right), listens Greg Davis, the new offensive coach at the University of Iowa, speaks about his plans for the upcoming season, during a press conference, in Iowa City, Iowa, on Monday, March 5, 2012. Davis was recently names the new offensive coordinator. (Nikole Hanna/The Gazette-KCRG)
We’ve done the Iowa football coaches salaries here very recently.
This link shows all the moves made during the Kirk Ferentz era at Iowa up until the makeover last winter.
When I was on vacation last week, I had a FOIA on coaches salaries come through (it took awhile, but got it). It was something that’s already been out there on this blog, but here’s the updated salaries for Iowa’s assistant coaches:
Linebackers coach LeVar Woods $187,000
Offensive coordinator Greg Davis $300,000
O-line coach Brian Ferentz $202,400
In addition, Phil Parker’s salary was increased to $301,000.
The latest figures for the other assistants:
Erik Campbell, $250,560
Lester Erb, $244,080
Eric Johnson, $182,520
Reese Morgan, $248,400
Darrell Wilson, $244,080
The Lansing (Mich.) State Journal’s Joe Rexrode chronicled the major raises a few members of the Michigan State coaching staff received this offseason. (MSU D coordinator Pat Narduzzi went from $233,000 to $500,000 a year, a $267,000. It’s market. He was a legit head coaching prospect this last offseason.)
In this post, Joe (name of his blog is “Hey Joe!”) collects and examines the football salaries for the public institutions in the Big Ten, from head coach through all nine assistants. This is pre-bonus stuff. Northwestern, being private, didn’t cough up its records. Penn State didn’t either, clinging to the non-transparency policies that have served them oh so well these many years. (Meanwhile, the jury selection in the Jerry Sandusky case is underway this week. Penn State still seems to want to work under a shroud. Dumb move.)
Iowa stuff from Joe’s post:
– Kirk Ferentz is No. 2 in the Big Ten ($3.87 million) just behind Ohio State’s Urban Meyer ($4 mill).
– As far as total football compensation goes, Ohio State is No. 1 ($7.22 million) and Iowa is No. 2 $6.035 million).
– At $300,000, Greg Davis is ninth-highest OC.
– At $301,000, Phil Parker is seventh DC. (Even with that giant raise, Narduzzi is still only No. 3, behind OSU’s Luke Fickell and Michigan’s Greg Mattison.
– Iowa assistants clock in at $2.16 million, which is fifth in the Big Ten, just behind MSU ($2.18) and ahead of Nebraska ($2.13).
Give the link a click. Good stuff from Hey Joe!
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Marc,
There’s always been quite a bit of “noise” that KF is quite generous with “bonuses” he gives to his assistants. I presume that’s coming directly outta his own pocket. I’m sure that wold be a kinda no-no type question to ask, not just fball coaches but anyone. With that said, do you have any insight into those bonuses.
No real point to this, just wondering if the urban legend of generous bonuses is legit.
Brian, I really don’t know the answer to that. That’s not a common practice, as far as I know, among college coaches.
KF’s latest contract has these bonuses set forward for assistants: 1) Prior to Dec. 31, 2010, $300,000 was paid to the nine assistants, two strength and director of football ops. This was left up to Ferentz’s discretion. 2) The UI funds average salary increases for that group for seasons with six wins or greater, got into a bowl and graduated 55 percent.
These are written into his contract, so maybe that’s why the “out of pocket” legend is out there. But as far as that goes, no, I don’t know that and I haven’t heard it.
I seem to remember having read that, early in his tenure, KF was sharing some of his conference championship and bowl game bonus money with the assistants. Maybe after the 2002 season?
I also remember something about Ferentz waiving some or all of a raise in a contract extension to start the assistants’ bonus fund.
As far as I know, that hasn’t been shared publicly, if true.
That said, something like that wouldn’t shock me.