FOOTBALL How much can the University of Missouri afford to pay a HFBC?

TigerCruise · Oct 17, 2018

In early 2015 the University gave Gary Pinkel an extension, which at the time:

With the raise, Pinkel becomes the 10th of the 14 SEC football coaches to hit the $4 million mark. According to media reports, he trails Alabama’s Nick Saban ($7.16 million), Texas A&M’s Kevin Sumlin ($5 million), LSU’s Les Miles ($4.37 million) and Mississippi’s Hugh Freeze ($4.3 million). Pinkel is close to South Carolina’s Steve Spurrier, who made $4.016 million in 2014 and ahead of Georgia’s Mark Richt, Arkansas’ Bret Bielema and Mississippi State’s Dan Mullen, who recently received raises to $4 million.

https://www.kansascity.com/sports/college/sec/university-of-missouri/article19421208.html

So in 2015 Mizzou's head coach was roughly 400k away from being the 3rd highest paid coach in the league.

Current SEC base coaching salaries:

Nick Saban, Alabama: $11,132,000

Jimbo Fisher, Texas A&M: $7,500,000

Dan Mullen, Florida: $6,000,000

Gus Malzahn, Auburn: $4,725,000

Jeremy Pruitt, Tennessee: $3,800,000

Kirby Smart, Georgia: $3,753,600

Mark Stoops, Kentucky: $3,750,600

Chad Morris, Arkansas: $3,500,000

Ed Orgeron, LSU: $3,500,000

Will Muschamp, South Carolina: $3,100,000

Matt Luke, Ole Miss: $3,000,000

Derek Mason, Vanderbilt: $2,721,834

Joe Moorhead, Mississippi State: $2,700,000

Barry Odom, Missouri: $2,350,000

https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/sec-football/updated-salary-information-sec-head-coaches/

If Gary Pinkel had not retired, he would currently be the 5th highest paid head coach in the league, and probably well worth it.

I understand that the athletic department operated in the red for the first time ever last year as ticket sales continue to plummet as we endure the Barry Odom years.

If the University of Missouri can afford to pay top 5 money in the SEC, coaches would come, and they would get paid. The number of football programs that pay their head coach more than $4 million a year is around 20.

I just gave you 4 million reasons why a coach would come to Missouri.

Will they open the pocketbook? It's a pretty simple business proposition, you pay $1.7 million more a year for a coach, you make more money in return in ticket sales.

Bocomo · Oct 17, 2018