Guess Mark Wetmore's salary

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I'm curious if part of Wetmore's "package" includes keeping Heather Burroughs on staff. She makes about a little over 65k, so their total compensation comes to about $200k, not including bonuses. I assume that they both get bonuses, and considering they coach 6 teams, this could be quite lucrative.

The Angel of Death wrote:

I'm curious if part of Wetmore's "package" includes keeping Heather Burroughs on staff. She makes about a little over 65k, so their total compensation comes to about $200k, not including bonuses. I assume that they both get bonuses, and considering they coach 6 teams, this could be quite lucrative.

BTW I forgot to include where I got her salary info

rojo wrote:

I will reveal it at 6 pm ET.

Update. The answer is in a RW article today.

"CU coach Mark Wetmore agreed to a three-year contract in 2018 that pays him $135,360 annually, not including performance bonuses. In April, Wetmore took a voluntary 5 percent pay cut—not counting lost bonuses—as the coronavirus canceled championships and seasons."

That seems very low to me considering the Powell's listed salaries are 233k and 198k respectively at UW.

https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a34619452/mens-college-running-programs-get-the-axe/

That's a good reason to cut a lot of non-revenue sports.

Time to separate college athletics from the colleges wrote:

That's a good reason to cut a lot of non-revenue sports.

Clearly so. Too many Olympic sport coaches have pushed into the slipstream of the ballsport coaches' salary arms race, which has consequences. Wetmore's salary is more relevant to CU's AD's overall health than anything going on nationally. CU's athletic department is one of the lowest earners in the PAC12, both from football and basketball success (or the lack of it) via bowls/CFP and March Madness and from alumni giving (CU historically has a poor alumni base). Much donor money has been pushed into the new indoor facility, and they're paying out not only to Karl Dorrell but also Mike MacIntyre. CU has a reputation of repeatedly cutting the t&f/xc budgets to help in buyouts for former head football coaches. Things are slightly better today, yet there hasn't been a huge swing in momentum. Keep in mind that he clearly likes it where he is, which also happens to take care of a lot of the recruiting for him. Wetmore lives comfortably in a home in the hills outside of town and along with his wife enjoys good job security and has a good retirement package lined up as a state employee for nearly 30 years. His wife is clearly the next head coach in waiting whenever he feels like retiring. Part of job security is ensuring your sport maintains a good fit within the athletic department in a changing financial landscape. It looks like in a lot of places there are short-sighted coaches who put immediate personal gain in front of that. Feeding well in times of plenty could render you a fatted calf in a crisis. If Clemson can cut their men's t&f/xc program, should it be any surprise if Washington were to follow suit? Kentucky? Tennessee? Texas?

rojo wrote:

I will reveal it at 6 pm ET.

Update. The answer is in a RW article today.

"CU coach Mark Wetmore agreed to a three-year contract in 2018 that pays him $135,360 annually, not including performance bonuses. In April, Wetmore took a voluntary 5 percent pay cut—not counting lost bonuses—as the coronavirus canceled championships and seasons."

That seems very low to me considering the Powell's listed salaries are 233k and 198k respectively at UW.

https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a34619452/mens-college-running-programs-get-the-axe/

It’s possible that cross country and track have different salaries.

Lot of misinformation here. First, Karl Dorrell is still the CU football coach. The only buyout was for Mcintyre. The CU basketball team is in the "big dance' far more often than not. Most athletic budgets suffered greatly during covid. University of Michigan had a 48 million dollar budget deficit for 2021. CU's was about 20 million.

bladerunner wrote:

Lot of misinformation here. First, Karl Dorrell is still the CU football coach. The only buyout was for Mcintyre. The CU basketball team is in the "big dance' far more often than not. Most athletic budgets suffered greatly during covid. University of Michigan had a 48 million dollar budget deficit for 2021. CU's was about 20 million.

You are the one posting misinformation. The CU basketball team has only qualified for the NCAA tournament 15 times in their history. I don't think that qualifies as "more often than not".