05-06 basketball budgets released... - Basketball U.

04-05 05-06 Change
American 1201727 1329100 10.6%
Army 675070 675070 0.0%
Bucknell 937598 1357807 44.8%
Colgate 783373 1030107 31.5%
Holy Cross 1395504 1402886 0.5%
Lafayette 839244 836140 -0.4%
Lehigh 882875 870553 -1.4%
Navy -- --
6715391 7501663 11.7%

If you follow the link, you'll come to a screen where you can enter the name of any college. After reaching the Bucknell screen, then click on the upper tab for coaches' salaries.

That page shows the average head coach's salary to be $56,294 last year. However there are several things to keep in mind:

1. It is merely an average and Pat is our highest paid Head Coach.

2. We have a number of coaches who coach the men's and women's teams for their sport - track, cross country, swimming, tennis, and water polo - although judging by the count of sports it appears that track and cross country are combined into one sport. If that is correct then the golf coaching job must be considered only a 1/2 job, which would make sense since the coaches in that sport only coach either the men or the women, as opposed to equivalent sports where the coaches do both jobs. These joint men/women coaches' salaries are pro-rated into the men's and women's categories. Thus a more accurate average is the one for FTE's ("full-time equivalencies"), which is $72,851 for BU. That one takes the joint men's/women's coaching spots and allocates the money onto both sides.

3. The total money allocated to men's coaches' salaries is just under $620,000. As Eric has pointed out, there are few specific rules for this report so it is possible that some coaches receive other money that falls into other categories. Also I'm not sure whether benefits (which can be signficant $'s) are included. Additionally, it is possible that some coaches may have expense acccounts or the use of a car. If so, I don't know if that would count in the salary total.

4. As an example ONLY, this is one way that the Bucknell head coaching salaries could get to the $620,000 figure:

Basketball 150,000
Football 100,000
Soccer 58,000
Baseball 58,000
Lacrosse 58,000
Wrestling 56,000
Swimming 28,000 (men's half only - total salary for this example would be 56)
Water Polo 28,000 (men's half only etc)
Track/C-C 28,000 (men's half only etc)
Tennis 28,000 (men's half only etc)
Golf 28,000 (part-time job ?)

TOTAL 620,000

5. On the report, you can see that the difference between men's and women's Head Coach salaries is $72,850. With only a few exceptions, there are matching men's and women's teams. If we assume, on average, that those coaches of equivalent sport (other than basketball) receive the same amount of money, it leaves football, wrestling, and basketball on the men's side, compared to crew, field hockey, volleyball, and basketball on the women's side, to make up the difference. IF we assume that the crew, volleyball, and field hockey salaries equal football plus wrestling, then the $72,850 difference might be attributable to the difference between Pat's compensation and Kathy Fedorjaka. Again, this is all by way of example, as I do not know any real numbers.

6. The one thing that is certain, other than my numbers not being correct, is that not all of the coaches of sports other than football and basketball receive the same compensation, even though that's what I assumed in the above example. I'm sure longevity and success play a role in it, as well as the profile of the sport. I'd imagine that a baseball coach who has been there for 30 years makes more than a third year coach, for example.