Iowa Football Strength Coach Chris Doyle Is The Highest Paid In All The Land And He Makes More Than The President

Division 1 college football coaching salaries continue to explode like a Taco Bell shit. Nick Saban, Jim Harbaugh, and Urban Meyer topped the list last year with $7 mill, $7 mill, and $5.8 mill annual salaries, respectively. To put that in perspective, these numbers are triple the $1.9 million average salary for a professional football player.

What’s more incredible is that the head coaches are only the tip of the iceberg. The NCAA allows up to nine assistant coaches that all earn a living wage. These assistant coaches make anywhere from $100,000-$500,000 at D1 programs, with the Offensive and Defensive Coordinators earning the most.

But, athletic directors and head coaches are beginning to subscribe to the notion that strength and conditioning coaches can have a larger impact on the success of the program than other coaches. They spend the most time with the players, know them better and communicate with them on a more personal level.

No one believes this more than the Iowa. Iowa Hawkeyes football strength and conditioning coach Chris Doyle will make more than 29 FBS public school head coaches this upcoming year, making him the highest paid strength coach in the land.

According to USA Today,

Doyle will make $595,000 in base compensation from the university for a one-year period that began July 1, according to information provided by the university in response to an open-records request from USA TODAY Sports.

Doyle’s compensation reflects a raise of $80,000, or 15.5%, over his pay for last year and it matches the basic amounts that Hawkeyes offensive coordinator Greg Davis and defensive coordinator Phil Parker are scheduled to make.

Doyle is being paid more than double the amounts going to many of his Big Ten Conference peers, and it’s $70,000 more than what reigning national champion Alabama’s Scott Cochran is being paid this season.

Doyle, who has been with Iowa since 1999, is making $595,000 more than any of his players, who he will train in Iowa’s pristine 23,000 square-foot, $55 million performance center that was constructed in 2014.

[h/t USA Today ]