Are the days of seemingly limitless spending (on staff) over?

[Katatonic]

End of the 'analyst army'? Why revenue sharing could curb college football's off-field staff swell

The model Nick Saban rode to success for years is in jeopardy as athletic departments look to slash budgets

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Alabama spent more than $1 million on analysts alone in 2023, according to public records. Alabama also listed 69 off-field staffers in its 2023 media guide, including five in recruiting, four in player personnel, three in player development, two special assistants (former Arizona Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt was one) and two chefs.

 

[AdamOnFirst]

I think it’s highly logical there will be downward pressure on coaching salaries, yes. Coaching salaries inflated insanely largely due to schools being forbidden from spending in many other areas (there is published research on this), meaning there was tons of captured dollars and not many efficient places to put it.

There are other places to put dollars now.

We might be at a competitive advantage to have Braun on a smaller salary. It’s not going to be an immediate correction.

 

[gocatsgo2003]

End of the 'analyst army'? Why revenue sharing could curb college football's off-field staff swell

The model Nick Saban rode to success for years is in jeopardy as athletic departments look to slash budgets

www.cbssports.com

Alabama spent more than $1 million on analysts alone in 2023, according to public records. Alabama also listed 69 off-field staffers in its 2023 media guide, including five in recruiting, four in player personnel, three in player development, two special assistants (former Arizona Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt was one) and two chefs.

No. Probably only going to get worse, at least in the B1G and SEC.

 

[gocatsgo2003]

I think it’s highly logical there will be downward pressure on coaching salaries, yes. Coaching salaries inflated insanely largely due to schools being forbidden from spending in many other areas (there is published research on this), meaning there was tons of captured dollars and not many efficient places to put it.

There are other places to put dollars now.

We might be at a competitive advantage to have Braun on a smaller salary. It’s not going to be an immediate correction.

The NU administration isn’t going to suddenly re-allocate not-spent HC salary dollars elsewhere. Especially with a large settlement or judgement due to Fitz hanging over their heads.

 

[NUCat320]

I think it’s highly logical there will be downward pressure on coaching salaries, yes. Coaching salaries inflated insanely largely due to schools being forbidden from spending in many other areas (there is published research on this), meaning there was tons of captured dollars and not many efficient places to put it.

There are other places to put dollars now.

We might be at a competitive advantage to have Braun on a smaller salary. It’s not going to be an immediate correction.

Once the budget is allocated, it’s tough to yank that budget.

And coaches put allowances for assistants and recruiting staffs and “ranking in pay among conference coaches” in their contract, making it even tougher.

More amusing than all of those “the highest-paid state employee is a football coach” reports is unstated “ninth-highest paid state employee is a linebackers coach”

The story at Alabama will be different than at Northwestern, where the analyst budget is virtually nil and where recruiting and roster management is much smaller.

In many ways, college football feels ready for a correction, similar to the scholarship limit way back when. The issue was similar: gargantuan versus tiny budgets.

Something tells me that that won’t happen tho. We’ve stopped pretending we’re interested in anything but those sweet, sweet TV dollars, and we must keep our broadcast partners happy!

 

[AdamOnFirst]

Once the budget is allocated, it’s tough to yank that budget.

And coaches put allowances for assistants and recruiting staffs and “ranking in pay among conference coaches” in their contract, making it even tougher.

More amusing than all of those “the highest-paid state employee is a football coach” reports is unstated “ninth-highest paid state employee is a linebackers coach”

The story at Alabama will be different than at Northwestern, where the analyst budget is virtually nil and where recruiting and roster management is much smaller.

In many ways, college football feels ready for a correction, similar to the scholarship limit way back when. The issue was similar: gargantuan versus tiny budgets.

Something tells me that that won’t happen tho. We’ve stopped pretending we’re interested in anything but those sweet, sweet TV dollars, and we must keep our broadcast partners happy!

It’s very easy to tank the budget when you can suddenly move the budget to somethjng that produces more value. Getting into an infinite bidding war with a LB coach makes less sense that getting into finite bidding wars with the best actual linebacker.