Garage and yard sales won’t do it. Neither will car washes or bake sales, or convincing children to empty their piggy banks.
Al Bohl needs money. Bohl needs a lot of money and the first true test of whether Kansas University’s athletics director is worth all the money they’re paying him is currently under way.
Bohl needs money to pay a new football coach and he needs even more money to pay the new coach’s staff. In the high-profile Big 12 Conference, money talks or coaches walk.
All across the country, college athletics departments are struggling to pay the bills. Many of them Kansas included have been forced to drop sports. At the same time, though, salaries commanded by NCAA Div. I-A football coaches have skyrocketed.
According to the NCAA, 18 head football coaches can be classified as millionaires. Two of the highest-paid coaches in the land are in the Big 12. Oklahoma’s Bob Stoops is No. 2 ($2 million) and Texas’ Mack Brown is No. 5 ($1.45 million).
All of that money is not salary. Stoops, for instance, has an annual salary of a mere $200,000 and Brown’s base pay is about $220,000. The rest of comes from outside sources such as radio-television shows, shoe and clothing deals, summer camps and perqs such as cars, houses and country club memberships.
Compensation packages for NCAA Div. I-A football coaches have hit the stratosphere because football is the cash cow of most college athletics departments. Most but not at Kansas where men’s basketball and football both generate about the same revenue.
Men’s basketball is KU’s golden goose and coach Roy Williams is amply rewarded for his ability to fill Allen Fieldhouse to the brim year in and year out. Williams’ annual compensation package has been estimated at as much as $1.2 million.
That isn’t to say Bohl needs to come up with a million-dollar plus package to attract a new football coach. It’s doubtful he could, anyway. But Bohl is reportedly trying to come up with at least $700,000 to lure “the right man” to Kansas.
If Bohl can wangle that much money from outside sources then he will have basically doubled the compensation deposed coach Terry Allen was receiving.
According to a survey conducted by the Dallas Morning News, Allen and Oklahoma State’s Les Miles had the smallest compensation packages in the league at about $400,000. Baylor’s Kevin Steele probably takes home less than that, but Baylor is a private university and information about its coaching contracts is unavailable.
Bohl’s reported target of $700,000 would put the Jayhawks’ new coach on the same plane as Missouri coach Gary Pinkel and Colorado’s Gary Barnett. Iowa State’s Dan McCarney’s package is about $600,000 and Texas Tech’s Mike Leach is in the $550,000 range.
At the top behind Stoops and Brown are millionaires R.C. Slocum of Texas A&M, Bill Snyder of Kansas State and Frank Solich of Nebraska.
Where will Bohl come up with the revenue he needs to make a competitive offer to a new football coach?
Obviously, Kansas doesn’t have the money in petty cash and it’s no secret the athletics department is maxed out on borrowing money, thanks to the bond deal that enabled the long-overdue renovation of Memorial Stadium, so Bohl will have to do a terrific sales job on deep-pocketed corporations and individuals.
Bohl’s message will no doubt be that Kansas must spend money in order to make money, that football is the only untapped source of income remaining and that it’s time either to put up or shut up.
I don’t envy Bohl’s task. These are hardly flush times and the Show-Me mentality of that bordering state has rubbed off on many Kansans whose heads have been filled by visions of sugar plums too many times before.
Regardless, Kansas needs to spend at least twice as much on coaches’ salaries as it has in the past in order to jump off the treadmill.
7.
Garage and yard sales won’t do it. Neither will car washes or bake sales, or convincing children to empty their piggy banks.
Al Bohl needs money. Bohl needs a lot of money and the first true test of whether Kansas University’s athletics director is worth all the money they’re paying him is currently under way.
Bohl needs money to pay a new football coach and he needs even more money to pay the new coach’s staff. In the high-profile Big 12 Conference, money talks or coaches walk.
All across the country, college athletics departments are struggling to pay the bills. Many of them Kansas included have been forced to drop sports. At the same time, though, salaries commanded by NCAA Div. I-A football coaches have skyrocketed.
According to the NCAA, 18 head football coaches can be classified as millionaires. Two of the highest-paid coaches in the land are in the Big 12. Oklahoma’s Bob Stoops is No. 2 ($2 million) and Texas’ Mack Brown is No. 5 ($1.45 million).
All of that money is not salary. Stoops, for instance, has an annual salary of a mere $200,000 and Brown’s base pay is about $220,000. The rest of comes from outside sources such as radio-television shows, shoe and clothing deals, summer camps and perqs such as cars, houses and country club memberships.
Compensation packages for NCAA Div. I-A football coaches have hit the stratosphere because football is the cash cow of most college athletics departments. Most but not at Kansas where men’s basketball and football both generate about the same revenue.
Men’s basketball is KU’s golden goose and coach Roy Williams is amply rewarded for his ability to fill Allen Fieldhouse to the brim year in and year out. Williams’ annual compensation package has been estimated at as much as $1.2 million.
That isn’t to say Bohl needs to come up with a million-dollar plus package to attract a new football coach. It’s doubtful he could, anyway. But Bohl is reportedly trying to come up with at least $700,000 to lure “the right man” to Kansas.
If Bohl can wangle that much money from outside sources then he will have basically doubled the compensation deposed coach Terry Allen was receiving.
According to a survey conducted by the Dallas Morning News, Allen and Oklahoma State’s Les Miles had the smallest compensation packages in the league at about $400,000. Baylor’s Kevin Steele probably takes home less than that, but Baylor is a private university and information about its coaching contracts is unavailable.
Bohl’s reported target of $700,000 would put the Jayhawks’ new coach on the same plane as Missouri coach Gary Pinkel and Colorado’s Gary Barnett. Iowa State’s Dan McCarney’s package is about $600,000 and Texas Tech’s Mike Leach is in the $550,000 range.
At the top behind Stoops and Brown are millionaires R.C. Slocum of Texas A&M, Bill Snyder of Kansas State and Frank Solich of Nebraska.
Where will Bohl come up with the revenue he needs to make a competitive offer to a new football coach?
Obviously, Kansas doesn’t have the money in petty cash and it’s no secret the athletics department is maxed out on borrowing money, thanks to the bond deal that enabled the long-overdue renovation of Memorial Stadium, so Bohl will have to do a terrific sales job on deep-pocketed corporations and individuals.
Bohl’s message will no doubt be that Kansas must spend money in order to make money, that football is the only untapped source of income remaining and that it’s time either to put up or shut up.
I don’t envy Bohl’s task. These are hardly flush times and the Show-Me mentality of that bordering state has rubbed off on many Kansans whose heads have been filled by visions of sugar plums too many times before.
Regardless, Kansas needs to spend at least twice as much on coaches’ salaries as it has in the past in order to jump off the treadmill.
7.
Garage and yard sales won’t do it. Neither will car washes or bake sales, or convincing children to empty their piggy banks.
Al Bohl needs money. Bohl needs a lot of money and the first true test of whether Kansas University’s athletics director is worth all the money they’re paying him is currently under way.
Bohl needs money to pay a new football coach and he needs even more money to pay the new coach’s staff. In the high-profile Big 12 Conference, money talks or coaches walk.
All across the country, college athletics departments are struggling to pay the bills. Many of them Kansas included have been forced to drop sports. At the same time, though, salaries commanded by NCAA Div. I-A football coaches have skyrocketed.
According to the NCAA, 18 head football coaches can be classified as millionaires. Two of the highest-paid coaches in the land are in the Big 12. Oklahoma’s Bob Stoops is No. 2 ($2 million) and Texas’ Mack Brown is No. 5 ($1.45 million).
All of that money is not salary. Stoops, for instance, has an annual salary of a mere $200,000 and Brown’s base pay is about $220,000. The rest of comes from outside sources such as radio-television shows, shoe and clothing deals, summer camps and perqs such as cars, houses and country club memberships.
Compensation packages for NCAA Div. I-A football coaches have hit the stratosphere because football is the cash cow of most college athletics departments. Most but not at Kansas where men’s basketball and football both generate about the same revenue.
Men’s basketball is KU’s golden goose and coach Roy Williams is amply rewarded for his ability to fill Allen Fieldhouse to the brim year in and year out. Williams’ annual compensation package has been estimated at as much as $1.2 million.
That isn’t to say Bohl needs to come up with a million-dollar plus package to attract a new football coach. It’s doubtful he could, anyway. But Bohl is reportedly trying to come up with at least $700,000 to lure “the right man” to Kansas.
If Bohl can wangle that much money from outside sources then he will have basically doubled the compensation deposed coach Terry Allen was receiving.
According to a survey conducted by the Dallas Morning News, Allen and Oklahoma State’s Les Miles had the smallest compensation packages in the league at about $400,000. Baylor’s Kevin Steele probably takes home less than that, but Baylor is a private university and information about its coaching contracts is unavailable.
Bohl’s reported target of $700,000 would put the Jayhawks’ new coach on the same plane as Missouri coach Gary Pinkel and Colorado’s Gary Barnett. Iowa State’s Dan McCarney’s package is about $600,000 and Texas Tech’s Mike Leach is in the $550,000 range.
At the top behind Stoops and Brown are millionaires R.C. Slocum of Texas A&M, Bill Snyder of Kansas State and Frank Solich of Nebraska.
Where will Bohl come up with the revenue he needs to make a competitive offer to a new football coach?
Obviously, Kansas doesn’t have the money in petty cash and it’s no secret the athletics department is maxed out on borrowing money, thanks to the bond deal that enabled the long-overdue renovation of Memorial Stadium, so Bohl will have to do a terrific sales job on deep-pocketed corporations and individuals.
Bohl’s message will no doubt be that Kansas must spend money in order to make money, that football is the only untapped source of income remaining and that it’s time either to put up or shut up.
I don’t envy Bohl’s task. These are hardly flush times and the Show-Me mentality of that bordering state has rubbed off on many Kansans whose heads have been filled by visions of sugar plums too many times before.
Regardless, Kansas needs to spend at least twice as much on coaches’ salaries as it has in the past in order to jump off the treadmill.
7.
Garage and yard sales won’t do it. Neither will car washes or bake sales, or convincing children to empty their piggy banks.
Al Bohl needs money. Bohl needs a lot of money and the first true test of whether Kansas University’s athletics director is worth all the money they’re paying him is currently under way.
Bohl needs money to pay a new football coach and he needs even more money to pay the new coach’s staff. In the high-profile Big 12 Conference, money talks or coaches walk.
All across the country, college athletics departments are struggling to pay the bills. Many of them Kansas included have been forced to drop sports. At the same time, though, salaries commanded by NCAA Div. I-A football coaches have skyrocketed.
According to the NCAA, 18 head football coaches can be classified as millionaires. Two of the highest-paid coaches in the land are in the Big 12. Oklahoma’s Bob Stoops is No. 2 ($2 million) and Texas’ Mack Brown is No. 5 ($1.45 million).
All of that money is not salary. Stoops, for instance, has an annual salary of a mere $200,000 and Brown’s base pay is about $220,000. The rest of comes from outside sources such as radio-television shows, shoe and clothing deals, summer camps and perqs such as cars, houses and country club memberships.
Compensation packages for NCAA Div. I-A football coaches have hit the stratosphere because football is the cash cow of most college athletics departments. Most but not at Kansas where men’s basketball and football both generate about the same revenue.
Men’s basketball is KU’s golden goose and coach Roy Williams is amply rewarded for his ability to fill Allen Fieldhouse to the brim year in and year out. Williams’ annual compensation package has been estimated at as much as $1.2 million.
That isn’t to say Bohl needs to come up with a million-dollar plus package to attract a new football coach. It’s doubtful he could, anyway. But Bohl is reportedly trying to come up with at least $700,000 to lure “the right man” to Kansas.
If Bohl can wangle that much money from outside sources then he will have basically doubled the compensation deposed coach Terry Allen was receiving.
According to a survey conducted by the Dallas Morning News, Allen and Oklahoma State’s Les Miles had the smallest compensation packages in the league at about $400,000. Baylor’s Kevin Steele probably takes home less than that, but Baylor is a private university and information about its coaching contracts is unavailable.
Bohl’s reported target of $700,000 would put the Jayhawks’ new coach on the same plane as Missouri coach Gary Pinkel and Colorado’s Gary Barnett. Iowa State’s Dan McCarney’s package is about $600,000 and Texas Tech’s Mike Leach is in the $550,000 range.
At the top behind Stoops and Brown are millionaires R.C. Slocum of Texas A&M, Bill Snyder of Kansas State and Frank Solich of Nebraska.
Where will Bohl come up with the revenue he needs to make a competitive offer to a new football coach?
Obviously, Kansas doesn’t have the money in petty cash and it’s no secret the athletics department is maxed out on borrowing money, thanks to the bond deal that enabled the long-overdue renovation of Memorial Stadium, so Bohl will have to do a terrific sales job on deep-pocketed corporations and individuals.
Bohl’s message will no doubt be that Kansas must spend money in order to make money, that football is the only untapped source of income remaining and that it’s time either to put up or shut up.
I don’t envy Bohl’s task. These are hardly flush times and the Show-Me mentality of that bordering state has rubbed off on many Kansans whose heads have been filled by visions of sugar plums too many times before.
Regardless, Kansas needs to spend at least twice as much on coaches’ salaries as it has in the past in order to jump off the treadmill.
7.
