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 elevate from Tampa that will have made him the highest-paid coordinator within the league at greater than $4 million yearly. When Jacksonville fired its basic supervisor, nevertheless, Coen modified his thoughts.
“As you proceed to do extra analysis and acquire extra data as you go, it began to change into extra clear with each hour that this was a possibility that you simply simply can’t move up for thus many various causes,” Coen mentioned at his introductory information convention. “In the end, you need to do what’s greatest for you and your loved ones. That’s what this got here right down to.”
Within the school ranks, issues are a bit extra difficult. The brand new period of identify, picture and likeness, referred to 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 lately signed an extension that pays him a mean of $12.5 million yearly. However with participant payrolls for School 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 school {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 pays him $4 million a yr in hopes that he may also help the Nittany Lions do the identical.
“It’s simpler to be an N.F.L. coach now,” mentioned 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 school coaches, it by no means ends. You might be recruiting year-round, watching the switch portal, holding your guys out of the switch portal.”
