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NCAA’s Power 5 schools see steep raise in pay for non-revenue coaches

TDR Edit.’s Notes ; Glad for the coaches that can receive greater compensation for their efforts yet we hope it does not lead to cutting programs in order to save money for big time athletic teams.
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When Debbie Yow took the job as North Carolina State’s athletics director in 2010, the challenges weren’t limited to football and men’s basketball, both of which had been languishing at the bottom of the Atlantic Coast Conference.  Though any athletics director is judged primarily on the health of those two marquee, money-generating sports, Yow made the case that better performance across the board, even in sports most fans didn’t pay attention to, would establish a culture of competitive excellence throughout the department. 

At that time, Yow was looking for excellence anywhere she could find it. In the points-based, all-sports ranking known as the Directors’ Cup, N.C. State had just finished 89th, directly behind California-Santa Barbara, UNLV and Akron.  “It’s pretty bad if you’re 89 when there’s only 65 Power Five schools,” Yow said. In the intervening years, N.C. State changed football and basketball coaches with varying degrees of success. But as new television revenue rolled in from the ACC, she also entered N.C. State into a different kind of arms race happening among Power Five athletics departments by spending significantly more money on coaches in so-called non-revenue sports. Across 11 sports that aren’t revenue drivers for N.C. State — men’s and women’s swimming (which have one head coach), men’s and women’s golf, wrestling, women’s gymnastics, men’s and women’s soccer, men’s and women’s tennis and women’s volleyball — Yow hired new coaches during her tenure and increased their combined compensation by nearly 56% between 2013 and 2018. Rest of the story at https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2019/08/12/ncaa-power-5-schools-steeply-raising-pay-non-revenue-sport-coaches/1946843001/?mc_cid=be3a5e675d&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

August 13, 2019 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized