Michigan State is spending nearly $94,000 more on assiatnt football coaches' salaries this year than in 2012, the Free Press reports in a roundup on what it calls "an increasingly prosperous Big Ten club."
MSU pays its nine assistant coaches $2.27 million, the league's sixth-highest total, salary research by sportswriter Joe Rexrode shows.
The University of Michigan, which raised assistants' salaries by $50,000 this year, ranks second in the Big Ten at $2.8 million. Ohio State eads at $3.41 million.
In 2013, Big Ten assistants will make an average of $268,000, and U-M defensive coordinator Greg Mattison will lead the way in pay for a second straight year with a salary of $750,000.
Rexrode lists base pay and 2013 increases for three of MSU head coach Mark Dantonio's assistants:
- Pat Narduzzi, assistant head coach/defensive coordinator, $512,500 ($12,500 raise).
- Dave Warner, co-offensive coordinator, $270,000 ($65,000 raise).
- Jim Bollman, co-offensive coordinator, $260,000 (new hire).
The Free Press also talked to Scott Hirko, a Central Michigan professor who has examined college coaching salaries nationally. He's co-author of a study that found they’re rising dramatically faster than the salaries of instructors at the same institutions — especially in major football conferences.
This pace, Hirko said, “really raises a concern for places like CMU, EMU, etc., if they want to remain competitive.”
