Average salary for a NCAA D1 xc/track coach

pay your taxes!!! wrote:

wow that is ridiculous! that is where my tax money goes. Doesn't seem right. I have $100,000 in student loans, work 12 hours a day, make 50,000 a year, pay way too much in taxes, pay $200 a month for health care, and these chumps are getting paid to "coach" running????

agreed

if you really want to get your blood pressure up consider what the athletic directors at football schools make - $700k . For an administrator at a public school like Penn State. it's so completley absurd I don't even know what to think. At least a football coach is well known, can do some fund raising and sell tickets. An AD is a freaking bureaucrat.

They have to recruit smart XC/track kids to offset the football team so the athletic department stats look better.

football GPA wrote:

They have to recruit smart XC/track kids to offset the football team so the athletic department stats look better.

yeah - if you read the story I linked to, it points out that the Cal Berkeley football and basketball teams have a graduation rate of 39% and 21%.

That's one of hte best universities in the nation. Makes me furious that great students are being turned away.

12 hour days... haha that sucks

Sounds like you need to find another job......CHUMP!!!!!!

Someone in D1 who is head of both xc/tf...80-100K

I spent 24 years as an Div. 1 assistant coach (got my first job at 19) all at what are now called Power5 conference schools. When I left, I was making $52,000 while coaching the jumps, throws, multi's, writing weight room workouts, handling meet management, travel logisitics, budget, event recruiting and compliance duties. This was the most I ever made as an assistant.

runningthroughthe6 wrote:

^ 12 hours a day for $50,000 and you have $100,000 in loans? Yeah you messed up somewhere along the way.

lol he is blaming others for being successful

Many, if not most, athletic departments are self-funded or get only a small percentage of their budget from the general fund. So your taxes are not likely paying any coaches' salaries.

pay your taxes!!! wrote:

wow that is ridiculous! that is where my tax money goes. Doesn't seem right. I have $100,000 in student loans, work 12 hours a day, make 50,000 a year, pay way too much in taxes, pay $200 a month for health care, and these chumps are getting paid to "coach" running????

this is misleading - apparently if Nike sponsors a football team, that money isn't given to the university, it is given to the athletic department, which goes to salaries. So really...money that should go to the U stays in the athletic department. self funded? not really. and anyway, the 'most athletic departments are self funded' doesn't hold water - it only has a prayer of truth at say 20 football/bball schools - how does a non-revenue sport school pay for 42 varsity sports? it doesn't make any sense.

Bullet the Blue Sky wrote:

Many, if not most, athletic departments are self-funded or get only a small percentage of their budget from the general fund. So your taxes are not likely paying any coaches' salaries.

pay your taxes!!! wrote:

wow that is ridiculous! that is where my tax money goes. Doesn't seem right. I have $100,000 in student loans, work 12 hours a day, make 50,000 a year, pay way too much in taxes, pay $200 a month for health care, and these chumps are getting paid to "coach" running????

Head coach at UW makes $163,752

http://data.spokesman.com/salaries/state/2015/all-employees/?q=Metcalf

Lots of these salaries are easily searchable via state employee databases.

Most Power 5 "Track" coaches all make 150-250K with "XC" from 40-60K

here, this article says there are exactly 22 self supporting athletic departments. All d1 of course. d2 and d3 can't be self supporting. And no way the freaking women's softball team is self raising $100,000 per year to play a season. anywhere. Obviously the college pays the bill. http://businessofcollegesports.com/2011/06/16/self-sustaining-athletic-departments-more-than-what-meets-the-eye/the other issue is that even the 22 self supporting schools...they are tax exempt. Which is crazy - they want to be big businesses, then fine, but they shoudl have to pay taxes on the profit side, that has little to do with education.

Bullet the Blue Sky wrote:

Many, if not most, athletic departments are self-funded or get only a small percentage of their budget from the general fund. So your taxes are not likely paying any coaches' salaries.

pay your taxes!!! wrote:

wow that is ridiculous! that is where my tax money goes. Doesn't seem right. I have $100,000 in student loans, work 12 hours a day, make 50,000 a year, pay way too much in taxes, pay $200 a month for health care, and these chumps are getting paid to "coach" running????

80% of coaching you never see. What you think a HC does is about 20% of their job. I start my day at 4:15am (wake up) and my goal during XC season is to be in bed by 11pm. It never ends -

With T&F coaches the pay is actually much higher since you get 4 months off a year like teachers!

4 months off. Is that a joke? Had kids competing at NCAA's, USA's, etc. Recruiting home visits start July 1, Camps then cross country reported Aug 12. Nationals 3rd week in Nov, off to Nike and FL regionals, then to nationals and Convention- that's 3 weeks of Dec gone. Track Reports just after New Years and the cycle starts again. I've never seen more than 2 weeks off and it's usually interspersed w/ work like finishing up transfer paperwork for Jan admits, late signees, etc. All family vacations are around a track meet or conventions....it never stops. Not complaining, just explaining.

fjakjmaweokjgv wrote:

80% of coaching you never see. What you think a HC does is about 20% of their job. I start my day at 4:15am (wake up) and my goal during XC season is to be in bed by 11pm. It never ends -

Fake! You are not putting in 18 hour days! If you are, then you are doing it wrong.

fjakjmaweokjgv wrote:

80% of coaching you never see. What you think a HC does is about 20% of their job. I start my day at 4:15am (wake up) and my goal during XC season is to be in bed by 11pm. It never ends -

That's some serious hyperbole. Our coach works his ass off and probably averages 5:30am-6pm during the week.

The athletic dept budgets at the Olympics-Four Campuses compares to a mid size corporation. The TV revenue of the Olymics-Four rivals CNN. The alumni fatten $B dollar endowments for the AD to milk forever. Yet the amount of money track and cross country coaches at the Olympics-Four receive is criminal.