Exactly what i thought
As if Kyle knows anything about us or our budget.
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Donāt know if heād bite but Iād make a phone call to Alex Golesh. That offense at UT is next level.
Heās likely take a big pay cut. Probably depends on how much he wants to be a coach.
If I were a coach with a promising future, Iād probably be very hesitant to take our job. Look at the history of hiring coaches here in revenue sports for the last decade. Itās absolutely dreadful.
With college football underway and college basketball season tipping off in November, itās time for CBJ ās yearly look at the salaries paid to coaches in the UNC System.
Scroll to the bottom of this story to access a searchable database sorted by annual base salary high to low. The database can also be filtered by institution. Because titles and department names arenāt standardized across the UNC System, we created a filtered column called āSport.ā Use that filter to compare compensation for a particular sport across all schools.
Note that some of the coaches may still be collecting salaries related to contracts despite no longer being in their positions. The source for the compensation data is the UNC System general administration. The data is from September.
The numbers here only include what the university pays them. The total compensation for many coaches at the systemās biggest programs is likely much higher; often additional funds come from private sources.
For example, USA Today recently released its list of the highest college football coaching salaries. Alabamaās Nick Saban topped that list of the highest-paid coaches in the sport, earning about $10.7 million this season, followed by Clemsonās Dabo Swinney at $10.5 million and Georgiaās Kirby Smart at $10.25 million.
In February, ESPN reported that both UNCās [Mack Brown](https://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/search/results?q=Mack Brown) and N.C. Stateās [Dave Doeren](https://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/search/results?q=Dave Doeren) extended their contracts through the 2026 season and are now scheduled to each earn $5 million per season, up from $3.5 million in their previous contracts.
However, in the UNC System database, Doeren is the highest-paid coach with a reported salary of $2.4 million. Brown is seventh with a base salary of $900,000. [Mike Houston](https://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/search/results?q=Mike Houston), East Carolinaās head football coach, ranks No. 2 with a base salary of $1.4 million, followed closely by [Kevin Keatts](https://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/search/results?q=Kevin Keatts), N.C. Stateās head menās basketball coach, at $1.38 million.
The top-paid coach for the Charlotte 49ers is [Will Healy](https://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/search/results?q=Will Healy), head football coach. His base salary is $518,000, up 3% from 2021. [Ron Sanchez](https://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/search/results?q=Ron Sanchez), head coach of the menās basketball team, has a base salary of $461,000.
I dont mean to come across disrespectful, but the silver lining of taking the chance we did on Healy is I guess weve saved $$ on his salary over the past few years? I would think we were ready to pay Houston a much higher salary.
We offered Houston in the 1-1.1 million range IIRC.
I wouldnāt really call paying Healy FCS money a silver lining though. A winning program in theory should generate more revenue than what we theoretically saved by offering Healy a lower salary. Healy was just a flat out failed experiment that has set the program back years. Nobody is coming in here and turning this around in a year. This team is so devoid of talent it will take at least a couple years and probably hitting the portal hard to get us to a respectable position.
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Healy wanted a bigger assistant pool iirc, so itās not like we hired him to get someone on the cheap. It was more of a swing for the fences and whiffing type deal on someone who was unproven but charismatic.
If thatās the case thatās very unnerving because our assistants are still paid far too little, especially at the coordinator positions.
Even if we had more money for assistants Healy would have still hired they same coaches he knew from Richmond, UT-C, and Austin Peay.
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Iām not saying it was better than hiring Houston, just better that we at least are paying a failed coach $500k instead of another failed coach $900k.
Iām not convinced the team is devoid of talent quite yetā¦I lean more towards incompetence from coaching all around - development + technique to on field awareness + Xs and Os.
And we think itās for something of significance to the athletic program?
Iām not sure. Iāve been preoccupied today.
If this meeting is about Healyās future - I really hope they donāt let him do the weekly press conference then axe him.
clt bets this would be tied to the stadium expansion
If it is an emergency meeting why would it be tied to the stadium? Just asking
From what Iāve heard meeting is not sports related.
As for the team I think we have some talent. We just arenāt putting them in the best position.
Has any Healy recruit made it to the NFLā¦ I want to say No, but Iām not exactly sure, if Brad Lambert got a few and Healy zero that right there shows he canāt develop talent cause a few of his recruiting years were decently rated.