Jon Solomon hands out the price per win ratios for every P5 coach here. The story in the SEC?
SEC Coach Price Per Win 2016 Record Derek Mason, Vanderbilt $426,146 6-6 Will Muschamp, South Carolina $500,416 6-6 Mark Stoops, Kentucky $501,943 7-5 Butch Jones, Tennessee $513,750 8-4 Jim McElwain, Florida $533,541 8-4 Nick Saban, Alabama $533,800 13-0 Kirby Smart, Georgia $536,229 7-5 Barry Odom, Missouri $587,500 4-8 Gus Malzahn, Auburn $591,188 8-4 Bret Bielema, Arkansas $592,143 7-5 Kevin Sumlin, Texas A&M $625,000 8-4 Les Miles, LSU* $626,510 7-4 Dan Mullen, Mississippi State $840,000 5-7 Hugh Freeze, Ole Miss $940,700 5-7
Man, those SEC West wins don’t come cheap. Then again, who’da thunk Nick Saban would turn out to be a better deal than Kirby Smart?
Interesting stat. I never thought about it that way. I guess the moral of the story is “Invest wisely”.
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Nick Saban was the best deal anybody in Alabama ever made, for Alabama.
If da Kirbster turns out to be half that good we will be pretty darn happy. Well, most of us.
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You should be happy, now, then. Kirby won half as many games as Nick did this year!!!! Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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If you think that’s what I meant, you really should find some other way to occupy your time.
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Looks like a very average bunch of teams not coached by Saban no matter how much the other coaches make.
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Wait…wouldn’t losses drive the average up? If a 1-11 coach made $1M a year his average would be $1M. I think this is a dumb way to look at it. Why not figure the average per game then add up the losses. That’s your money wasted stat.
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Then you could pay Nick $1 Billion and have “not wasted” a penny.
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He loses too, albeit rarely. Do you think TAMU is getting their money’s worth? For Sumlin’s 4 losses they paid him $1,666,666.60. Few folks are going to run the table–but that is a shit ton of money to pay for disappointment.
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I think that is the point. A school does not want to pay a lot per win.
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…….anyone agree with me that Muschamp did a pretty damn good job this season? Mason and Stoops outperformed expectations, but it’s only because they themselves made them so low to begin with. Meanwhile, Boom inherited a smoldering, talentless crater in Columbia and squeezed a bowl bid out of it. Good job, ya nut.
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yes, I do.
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Credit is due.
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Not so fast.
Jon didn’t figure in the costs of the rent-a-wins and the box of condoms.
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Kirby was three plays from being first at $375,360 per win. He was also four plays away from being last at $1,251,200 per win. I can’t think of another team that had so many close games.
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Some linemen and some end-of-half management / motivation techniques will help gain that edge winning teams have.
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