College Football Coaching Salaries
Web Scraping to Find the Price Per Student by School, State, and Conference As I am writing this story, the 2020 National Championship game is playing in the background. The pageantry of the college football playoff system rivals that of the NFL’s own tournament bracket, however, this is orchestrated by a non-profit. A non-profit reaping billions in ad revenue, TV deals, and merchandise licensing then distributing to the member institution’s athletic departments. All this money has to go somewhere right? In a strange paradox, these academic institutions spend millions to recruit the top coaches and many millions more to support the big name coaches with capable assistants. The justification for such spending is to compete internally in the NCAA to recruit the best staff to succeed and receive an even larger distribution of the non-profit’s revenue stream. More articles about coaches salaries in college football can be found [here] , [here] , or [here] . The main goal of this article...