Young offensive assistants don’t often stick around long enough to see their salaries spike to that level. Schiano's unit has given up 30 points or more in five games, including 49 in a loss to Purdue and 51 to a middling Maryland squad. Demand, only in a different fashion. He began his career as the head video coordinator for the Celtics, and five years later was promoted to assistant coach. Virginia Tech football coach Justin Fuente is making $4 million this year, according to The Roanoke Times. LSU defensive coordinator Dave Aranda was paid $2.5 million and was one of three assistant coaches to top at least $2 million. Steele had been making $1.9 million as Auburn’s defensive coordinator. Maybe. Tressel’s salary is the second-highest salary ever given to an assistant football coach at MSU, behind Pat Narduzzi’s pay of $905,000 in 2014. The Longhorns' defense ranks 57th in points allowed and 68th in yards allowed, and their third-down defense, which ranks 109th, is among the nation's worst. Offensive coordinators tend to get more head coaching opportunties, leaving the often more proven (and older) defensive assistants to dominate the assistant salary marketplace. 19 in the country in scoring offense and 18th in passing efficiency. The 54-year-old former Southern Miss head coach is also the type of presence who's more likely to stay a coordinator over the long haul. Of the 24 assistants over the million-dollar mark last season, only six of them were offensive coordinators. Dresser is at 2.6, I believe. There are 71 head coaches that earn more than $1 million per season. There were only eight such coaches nationally in 2015. That type of firepower can get people paid. For example, Michigan State’s pursuit of Kentucky tight ends coach Vince Marrow led to Marrow inking a three-year, $2.7 million deal. They’re all defensive coordinators. Auburn's defense has still been pretty good, mind you; It's now ranked 18th in the country in scoring defense. That's a steal for an Assistant Coach with as many years of experience at the NCAA Division 1 level as he has. His state base salary doesn't even register in our database, which includes state salaries of $50,000 or more. When Yost accepted the offer to be UM’s football coach, his salary increased to $2,300, plus living expenses. During their current deals, which run through Feb. 28, 2021, Boise State’s 10 assistant coaches will make a combined $2.325 million in base salary. In fact, we saw the first Group of Five assisstant, UCF DC Randy Shannon, hit the $1 million mark this offseason. Verdict: Worth it. Another college football season has come and gone, and salaries for assistant football coaches continue to balloon. Further, he has an estimated net worth of over $7 million dollars. During their current deals, which run through Feb. 28, 2021, Boise State’s 10 assistant coaches will make a combined $2.325 million in base salary. Here's a look at which of the 10 highest-paid assistants earned their keep this year, and which ones appear overpaid. The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City airs on Wednesdays at 10 p.m. on Bravo. Verdict: Overpaid. Fifteen made over $2 million. The other four (Tony Elliott, Kendal Briles, Josh Gattis, Steve Sarkisian) either stayed put or accepted a coordinator job elsewhere. When he was a Carolina Panthers his annual salary was $7 million. Assistant coaches are a huge part of the sport’s arms race, and salary pools are spiking across the country. Twenty-six made six figures, ranging from $115,000 to $840,000. Some of the numbers that were listed were eye-popping with 84 coaches making over one million dollars per year. That’s a 96.3 percent increase, which well outpaces expected inflation rates. It only takes one school to takeat $2-million-a-year plunge, and it's happening more and more often in this era of college football's salary bonanza. In fact, the average salary of an FBS head coach jumped from $1.36 million in 2009 to $2.67 million last year. One of those (Jeff Scott, Clemson) earned a head coaching job. Also, that figure was for Cael's base salary. As for head coaches, SMU coach June Jones is the highest paid of the non-AQs, earning $2.142 million. That salary would have ranked 48th among FBS head coaches in 2017 according to the USA Today database, between Duke’s David Cutcliffe ($2,613,638) and Maryland’s DJ Durkin ($2… Really, it's just the fact that he's now being paid more than 69 Football Bowl Subdivision head coaches — including 10 in the Power Five — and his unit is ranked outside the top 20 in most major statistical categories. Sarkisian, meanwhile, interviewed for several head coaching jobs this offseason but ultimately chose to stay at Alabama for another year, earning a slight pay bump as well. This year's Clemson defense, for example, ranks third in the FBS in rushing defense, third in sacks per game, tied for second in scoring defense and fourth in total defense — all while helping lift the Tigers to an undefeated regular season. NFC East division team Washington Redskins head Ron Rivera is a very popular American professional football coach and one of the highest paid football coaches so far. He yearly makes $8 million along with an estimated net worth of $12 million. The average pay for college football coaches exceeds $2 million but their “bonuses” tend to pay significantly more. This year, after Leavitt received a $550,000 raise, his unit is tied for 63rd in scoring defense and gave up 29 points per game in the conference. For instance, in 2014, Tom Brands made $302k from his Iowa Contract but his base salary was only $153k.