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USA Today coaches salary database: Buyout figures for every B1G coach
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Ready to fire the head football coach? Well, before you start calling for someone to lose their job, you might want to take a look at their buyout figures.
Wednesday, USA Today released its annual college football coaches salary database, which includes salaries and buyouts for every coach across the country. Earlier, we highlighted the B1G coaching salaries. Now, we’ll take a look at some of the buyout numbers.
Urban Meyer at Ohio State and Scott Frost of Nebraska are two guys with really big numbers, though they don’t come anywhere close to Texas A&M’s Jimbo Fisher. Meyer is the only B1G coach to exceed $30 million and Frost isn’t far behind at $25 million.
Jeff Brohm at Purdue and Iowa’s Kirk Ferentz are the only other two with buyouts exceeding a $20 million total.
On the other end, Maryland’s DJ Durkin and Indiana’s Tom Allen are two of the cheapest coaches to be replaced. And Paul Chryst of Wisconsin and Mark Dantonio at Michigan State seem low, too. Northwestern’s Pat Fitzgerald has an unknown buyout, as he’s employed by a private institution.
Here’s a look at the B1G buyout totals from USA Today:
- Urban Meyer, Ohio State: $38.05 million
- Scott Frost, Nebraska: $25.41 million
- Kirk Ferentz, Iowa: $22.39 million
- Jeff Brohm, Purdue: $21. 51 million
- James Franklin, Penn State: $18.37 million
- Jim Harbaugh, Michigan: $17.11 million
- Lovie Smith, Illinois: $12.63 million
- Chris Ash, Rutgers: $10.35 million
- P.J. Fleck, Minnesota: $9.29 million
- Mark Dantonio, Michigan State: $7 million
- Paul Chryst, Wisconsin: $6 million
- DJ Durkin, Maryland: $5.09 million
- Tom Allen, Indiana: $2 million
- Pat Fitzgerald, Northwestern: Undisclosed
Dustin grew up in the heart of Big Ten country and has been in sports media since 2010. He has been covering Big Ten football since 2014. You can follow him on Twitter: @SchutteCFB