We’re furiously working to get our unbiased coach rankings done, but here’s a bit of a preview for you. We run across a lot of interesting tidbits while we’re compiling the rankings. For example, which coaches are a good value for their university and which are wasting the most money? To figure that out we take the coach’s salary and divide it by the team’s wins on the year. This gives us the Dollars Per Win, which roughly tells us how much value a coach brings to their job.

So without further ado, here are the best values in coaching (through week 10):

Best Coaching Values
Rank Coach School Salary Wins $ per Win
1 Shane Montgomery Miami of Ohio $139,500 5 $27,900
2 Gregg Brandon Bowling Green $150,000 5 $30,000
3 Brady Hoke Ball State $159,220 5 $31,844
4 (tie) Butch Jones Central Michigan $200,000 6 $33,333
4 (tie) David Elson Western Kentucky $200,000 6 $33,333

And even more interesting, here are the worst values:

Worst Coaching Values
Rank Coach School Salary Wins $ per Win
1 Charlie Weiss Notre Dame $3,500,000 1 $3,500,000
2 Tim Brewster Minnesota $1,000,000 1 $1,000,000
3 Butch Davis North Carolina $1,800,000 3 $600,000
4 Nick Saban Alabama $3,500,000 6 $583,333
5 Kirk Ferentz Iowa $2,840,000 5 $568,000

Keep up the good work Charlie!


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  1. USA Today Stole our Idea!!! » Rank That Coach! on December 5, 2007 9:38 pm

    […] salaries, and includes a ranking of coaches based on dollars per win. Sound familiar? We already did it. To be fair, we only published our preview. Well that’s all changed now, because I just […]

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