The Jacksonville Jaguars, after 72 hours of intrigue, adopted this template and employed Tampa Bay’s offensive coordinator, Liam Coen, 39, for greater than $11 million a season. At first, Coen turned down the job and accepted a increase from Tampa that may have made him the highest-paid coordinator within the league at greater than $4 million yearly. When Jacksonville fired its common supervisor, nevertheless, Coen modified his thoughts.
“As you proceed to do extra analysis and acquire extra data as you go, it began to develop into extra clear with each hour that this was a possibility that you just simply can’t move up for thus many various causes,” Coen stated at his introductory information convention. “In the end, you need to do what’s finest for you and your loved ones. That’s what this got here all the way down to.”
Within the faculty ranks, issues are a bit of extra sophisticated. The brand new period of title, picture and likeness, generally known as N.I.L., has meant extra money for gamers, however a few of that has come on the expense of head coaches. Positive, Georgia’s Kirby Sensible makes greater than $13 million a yr, and Ohio State Coach Ryan Day not too long ago signed an extension that pays him a median of $12.5 million yearly. However with participant payrolls for Faculty Soccer Playoff-caliber groups starting from $13 million to $20 million, athletic administrators are deploying their assets extra strategically.
Ohio State paid Chip Kelly, a former head coach on the faculty {and professional} ranges, $2 million final season to be the Buckeyes’ offensive coordinator. They gained the nationwide championship. Penn State, which misplaced within the semifinals, has since employed Ohio State’s defensive coordinator, Jim Knowles, and can pay him $4 million a yr in hopes that he will help the Nittany Lions do the identical.
“It’s simpler to be an N.F.L. coach now,” stated Paul Finebaum, host of his personal present on the SEC Community. “You’ve gotten a set roster, a wage cap and an low season. For faculty coaches, it by no means ends. You’re recruiting year-round, watching the switch portal, maintaining your guys out of the switch portal.”
