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Questions & Answers 14-28 - Safety Information Management Systems posted on Thursday, December 11, 2014 9:35 AM due Wednesday, January 07, 2015 2:00 PM Click here to request a copy of this solicitation. Questions & Answers 2014 TCPN Management Group LLC (TCPN) ® | 11280 West Road, Houston, Texas 77065 | (888) 884-7695 USA TODAY 8C SPORTS C THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2014 COACHES’ COMPENSATION FBS assistants continue to see surge in salaries v CONTINUED FROM 1C gives thanks. On the surface, he seems to money. But they are part of an ex- have had a very rough go of it in plosive increase in the pay to as- the last six years. He was fired at sistant coaches in college football Syracuse after the 2008 season, in the last five years. having posted a four-year record Excluding the eight schools of 10-37. that have joined the Football He hooked on as defensive co- Bowl Subdivision level since ordinator for Rich Rodriguez at 2009, when USA TODAY Sports Michigan. Two seasons later, DERICK E. HINGLE, USA TODAY SPORTS began surveying assistant coach- Rodriguez and his sta were let LSU oensive coordinator Cam Cameron was head coach at Indiana. es’ compensation, the average pay go. for assistants at that level has ris- At that point, Robinson was en from about $155,000 to more thinking about moving back to ASSISTANTS BRING EXPERIENCE than $236,000 — a 52% increase. the NFL and thought he had The big picture involves much lined up a gig. MATT KARTOZIAN, USA TODAY SPORTS At least 50 former Bowl Subdivision head coaches spent the 2014 season bigger numbers, especially when But it dried up and job search- working as assistant coaches at FBS schools, including the following 30 at it comes to oensive and defen- Dennis Erickson coaches ing season was basically over, so schools in the five power conferences. Alabama’s staff has four such coach- sive coordinators at the five pow- Utah’s running backs. he planned on hanging out at es, Virginia’s three. er conferences, where the average home with his wife for a while. Name 2014 job Head coach at ... pay for assistants this season is “But when I ended up in a dis- Mario Cristobal Alabama offensive Florida International, more than $333,000. There, the cussion with my wife about rear- line 2007-12 increases in pay to assistants have ranging the dishes, I knew I Lane Kiffin Alabama offensive coor- Tennessee, 2009; Southern reflected the skyrocketing sala- needed to get out of the house dinator California, 2010-13 ries of their bosses and the ever- and give my wife a break,” he says. Kevin Steele Alabama linebackers Baylor, 1999-2002 increasing revenue in big-time He got to talking with Jim Bobby Williams Alabama tight ends/ Michigan State, 2000-02 college football. Bonds, a former UCLA quarter- special teams In fact, this season is the first back who is the head coach at Randy Shannon Arkansas linebackers Miami (Fla.), 2007-10 in which a school’s assistants had St. Francis High School in La Ellis Johnson Auburn defensive Southern Mississippi, 2012 coordinator combined total pay of at least Canada Flintridge, just north of Robbie Caldwell Clemson offensive line Vanderbilt, 2010 $5 million — and two went past Los Angeles. Tim Brewster Florida State tight ends Minnesota, 2007-10 that mark: LSU ($5.5 million) and Pretty soon, he was working Andy McCollum Georgia Tech Middle Tennessee State, Alabama (a little more than again — for free and for the love linebackers 1999-2005 $5.2 million). In 2009, there was of it. Ted Roof Georgia Tech defensive Duke, 2004-07 one school whose assistants com- “I did everything,” he says. “I coordinator bined to make at least $3 million; MATTHEW EMMONS, USA TODAY SPORTS coached the scout team. I just Bill Cubit Illinois offensive Western Michigan, 2005-12 this year, there are 23. With Texas in 2013, Greg Rob- coached ’em up. They were just coordinator In 2009, there were five coach- inson is now at San Jose State. young kids. I was teaching them Brian Knorr Indiana defensive Ohio, 2001-04 es making at least $600,000. This fundamentals.” coordinator Mark Mangino Iowa State offensive Kansas, 2002-09 year, there are 37. ern Michigan and hired as oen- In 2013, Robinson started the coordinator In 2009, there were 26 coaches sive coordinator at Illinois. season as a long-distance consult- Dana Dimel Kansas State co- Wyoming, 1997-99; making at least $400,000. This His highest salary at Western ant for his former boss, Texas offensive coordinator Houston, 2000-02 year, there are 117. Michigan was $377,250 in 2011 coach Mack Brown. But after a Garrick McGee Louisville offensive Alabama at The highest-paid assistant and ’12. After getting fired, he nightmarish start, Brown sum- coordinator Birmingham, 2012-13 coach this season, based on total took the oensive coordinator’s moned Robinson to Austin to co- Cam Cameron LSU offensive coordinator Indiana, 1997-2001 pay, is Virginia Tech defensive co- job at Illinois for $400,000 and, ordinate the defense. At season’s Mike Locksley Maryland offensive coor- New Mexico, 2009-11 ordinator Bud Foster at nearly after significant statistical im- end, Brown and his sta were dinator $1.37 million — but $800,000 of provements in 2013, he was given fired. Vic Koenning North Carolina associate Wyoming, 2000-02 head coach for defense that is in the form of a one-time a $100,000 raise and now makes Then came the oer from San Larry Porter North Carolina Memphis, 2010-11 longevity payment he is sched- $500,000. Jose State — and it didn’t really running backs uled to trigger Dec. 31 for com- Did Cubit, 61, ever think he’d matter what the money was. Luke Fickell Ohio State defensive Ohio State, 2011 pleting a four-plus-year period of make more as an assistant coach “I have a lot left in my tank,” coordinator employment at the school. than as a head coach? Robinson says. “I can run with Mike Stoops Oklahoma defensive Arizona, 2004-11 Alabama defensive coordinator “You look back and think about these young guys running around coordinator Kirby Smart has the highest re- some of the coaches — guys a lit- the practice field. I’ve studied a Ralph Friedgen Rutgers offensive Maryland, 2001-10 curring annual compensation at tle bit older than me — who didn’t lot of football and worked hard at coordinator Mark Snyder Texas A&M Marshall, 2005-09 $1.35 million a year, just ahead of benefit from the high salaries that being a coach.” defensive coordinator LSU oensive coordinator Cam there are now,” Cubit says.