USA Today Stole Our Idea!!!

December 5, 2007 |

USA Today, in today’s print and online editions, has a big story about coaches’ 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 posted our rankings of all 120 1A coaches by dollars per win.

There are a couple of things wrong with USA Today’s list. First, they don’t have the salaries of all the coaches. I’m not sure what’s wrong with their research staff, but we have all 120 of them. Second, they seem to only have the coaches’ base salaries in some cases (hence Charlie Weiss being listed at $673,779 instead of $3.5 million). This really throws off the results.

Go check out the results for yourself.