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COACHES’ COMPENSATION FBS assistants continue to see surge in salaries gives thanks. On the surface, he seems to have had a very rough go of it in the last six years. He was fired at Syracuse after the 2008 season, having posted a four-year record of 10-37. He hooked on as defensive coordinator for Rich Rodriguez at Michigan. Two seasons later, Rodriguez and his staff were let go. At that point, Robinson was thinking about moving back to the NFL and thought he had lined up a gig. But it dried up and job searching season was basically over, so he planned on hanging out at home with his wife for a while. “But when I ended up in a discussion with my wife about rearranging the dishes, I knew I needed to get out of the house and give my wife a break,” he says. He got to talking with Jim Bonds, a former UCLA quarterback who is the head coach at St. Francis High School in La Canada Flintridge, just north of Los Angeles. Pretty soon, he was working again — for free and for the love of it. “I did everything,” he says. “I coached the scout team. I just coached ’em up. They were just young kids. I was teaching them fundamentals.” In 2013, Robinson started the season as a long-distance consultant for his former boss, Texas coach Mack Brown. But after a nightmarish start, Brown summoned Robinson to Austin to coordinate the defense. At season’s end, Brown and his staff were fired. Then came the offer from San Jose State — and it didn’t really matter what the money was. “I have a lot left in my tank,” Robinson says. “I can run with these young guys running around the practice field. I’ve studied a lot of football and worked hard at being a coach.” He hasn’t given up on being a head coach again. “I think about it all the time,” he says. “The question is, are they thinking about me?” Erickson feels almost exactly the same way about this stage of his career. “To me, the game is about the players, and I just enjoy being around them. Young people keep you young,” he says. “I’m 67, but I feel like I’m a lot younger. Right now, my plan is to coach as long as I stay healthy.” The money they pay running backs coaches these days doesn’t hurt, either.

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money. But they are part of an explosive increase in the pay to assistant coaches in college football in the last five years. Excluding the eight schools that have joined the Football Bowl Subdivision level since 2009, when USA TODAY Sports began surveying assistant coaches’ compensation, the average pay for assistants at that level has risen from about $155,000 to more than $236,000 — a 52% increase. The big picture involves much bigger numbers, especially when it comes to offensive and defensive coordinators at the five power conferences, where the average pay for assistants this season is more than $333,000. There, the increases in pay to assistants have reflected the skyrocketing salaries of their bosses and the everincreasing revenue in big-time college football. In fact, this season is the first in which a school’s assistants had combined total pay of at least $5 million — and two went past that mark: LSU ($5.5 million) and Alabama (a little more than $5.2 million). In 2009, there was one school whose assistants combined to make at least $3 million; this year, there are 23. In 2009, there were five coaches making at least $600,000. This year, there are 37. In 2009, there were 26 coaches making at least $400,000. This year, there are 117. The highest-paid assistant coach this season, based on total pay, is Virginia Tech defensive coordinator Bud Foster at nearly $1.37 million — but $800,000 of that is in the form of a one-time longevity payment he is scheduled to trigger Dec. 31 for completing a four-plus-year period of employment at the school. Alabama defensive coordinator Kirby Smart has the highest recurring annual compensation at $1.35 million a year, just ahead of LSU offensive coordinator Cam Cameron, LSU defensive coordinator John Chavis and Clemson offensive coordinator (now SMU head coach) Chad Morris at $1.3 million. Cameron’s contract calls for his pay to increase to $1.5 million in 2015. Since coaches are hired to one day be fired, there seems to be no shortage of candidates for the high-paying gigs. In fact, at least 50 former FBS head coaches are working as FBS assistants. The ever-increasing salaries for top assistants meant that Bill Cubit actually got a raise when he was fired as head coach at West-

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Dennis Erickson coaches Utah’s running backs.

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With Texas in 2013, Greg Robinson is now at San Jose State.

ern Michigan and hired as offensive coordinator at Illinois. His highest salary at Western Michigan was $377,250 in 2011 and ’12. After getting fired, he took the offensive coordinator’s job at Illinois for $400,000 and, after significant statistical improvements in 2013, he was given a $100,000 raise and now makes $500,000. Did Cubit, 61, ever think he’d make more as an assistant coach than as a head coach? “You look back and think about some of the coaches — guys a little bit older than me — who didn’t benefit from the high salaries that there are now,” Cubit says. “But I don’t think anyone really regrets when they were in this business. I think you just work, and if you’re fortunate enough to make a good living, great. But I think a lot of guys would do this job for far less. It’s just kind of how we’re wired.” Cubit says he made about $10,000 in his first job as a high school coach in Pennsylvania. “And I was happy,” he says. “I’ve been blessed. I really have. Some guys don’t get the opportunities I get at my age to keep on going and be in a good spot where you’re wanted.” Robinson, too, frequently

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LSU offensive coordinator Cam Cameron was head coach at Indiana.

ASSISTANTS BRING EXPERIENCE At least 50 former Bowl Subdivision head coaches spent the 2014 season working as assistant coaches at FBS schools, including the following 30 at schools in the five power conferences. Alabama’s staff has four such coaches, Virginia’s three. Name Mario Cristobal Lane Kiffin Kevin Steele Bobby Williams Randy Shannon Ellis Johnson Robbie Caldwell Tim Brewster Andy McCollum Ted Roof Bill Cubit Brian Knorr Mark Mangino Dana Dimel Garrick McGee Cam Cameron Mike Locksley Vic Koenning Larry Porter Luke Fickell Mike Stoops Ralph Friedgen Mark Snyder Dave Christensen Dennis Erickson

Karl Dorrell Mike Archer Steve Fairchild Tom O’Brien Jeff Genyk

2014 job Alabama offensive line Alabama offensive coordinator Alabama linebackers Alabama tight ends/ special teams Arkansas linebackers Auburn defensive coordinator Clemson offensive line Florida State tight ends Georgia Tech linebackers Georgia Tech defensive coordinator Illinois offensive coordinator Indiana defensive coordinator Iowa State offensive coordinator Kansas State cooffensive coordinator Louisville offensive coordinator LSU offensive coordinator Maryland offensive coordinator North Carolina associate head coach for defense North Carolina running backs Ohio State defensive coordinator Oklahoma defensive coordinator Rutgers offensive coordinator Texas A&M defensive coordinator Utah offensive coordinator Utah running backs

Vanderbilt offensive coordinator Virginia safeties Virginia offensive coordinator Virginia associate head coach for offense Wisconsin tight ends

Head coach at ... Florida International, 2007-12 Tennessee, 2009; Southern California, 2010-13 Baylor, 1999-2002 Michigan State, 2000-02 Miami (Fla.), 2007-10 Southern Mississippi, 2012 Vanderbilt, 2010 Minnesota, 2007-10 Middle Tennessee State, 1999-2005 Duke, 2004-07 Western Michigan, 2005-12 Ohio, 2001-04 Kansas, 2002-09 Wyoming, 1997-99; Houston, 2000-02 Alabama at Birmingham, 2012-13 Indiana, 1997-2001 New Mexico, 2009-11 Wyoming, 2000-02 Memphis, 2010-11 Ohio State, 2011 Arizona, 2004-11 Maryland, 2001-10 Marshall, 2005-09 Wyoming, 2009-13 Wyoming, 1986; Washington State, 1987-88; Miami (Fla.) 1989-1994; Oregon State, 1999-2002; Idaho, 2006; Arizona State, 200711 UCLA, 2003-07 LSU, 1987-90 Colorado State, 2008-11 Boston College, 1997-2006; N.C. State, 2007-12 Eastern Michigan, 2004-08

Note: Does not include coaches who served as head coaches on an interim basis for part of a season. Source: Head coaching information from NCAA Career Statistics database at ncaa.org.

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