We've hit the offensive and defensive coordinators, and so now it's time to round out the coordinators in our annual assistant coaching salary survey by examining special teams.
This is a lighter list than the two counterparts, both in dollars paid and the number of entrants on the list.
Not every head coach designates a special teams coordinator, and a rising number of those that do -- I'd estimate 20 percent -- put their special teams coordinators off the field.
And then you have Steve Sarkisian, who pays his special teams coordinator more than a million bucks a year. Of course, Jeff Banks is also Texas's assistant head coach, tight ends coach, and carries a significant load in recruiting, but that's the deal when you coach special teams -- hardly anybody just coordinates special teams. Managing six different units isn't enough, apparently.
As always, information gleaned via open records and/or media reports, or from the USA Today database when the prior two are unavailable.
$1.15 million: Jeff Banks, Texas
$900,000: Mike Reed, Clemson
$800,000: Joe DeCamillis, South Carolina
$750,000: John Papuchis, Florida State
$700,000: Joe Lorig, Oregon; LeVar Woods, Iowa
$650,000: Sharrieff Shah, Utah
$575,000: Mike Ekeler, Tennessee
$550,000: Jay Boulware, Kentucky; Ed Foley, Nebraska; Kenny Perry, Texas Tech
$548,000: Todd Goebbel, NC State
$525,000: Keith Bhonapha, Michigan State*; Stu Holt, Virginia Tech
$515,000: Scott Fountain, Arkansas
$500,000: Grant Cain, Indiana; Slade Nagle, LSU; Larry Porter, North Carolina
$450,000: Marty Biagi, Notre Dame; Kerry Coombs, Cincinnati; Erik Link, Missouri; Charlie Ragle, Arizona State
$400,000: Kirk Benedict, Georgia
$375,000: Jake Schoonover, Ole Miss
$370,000: Robby Discher, Illinois
$360,000: Keith Gaither, Virginia
$355,000: Vic So'oto, Cal
$350,000: Matt Mitchell, Wisconsin; Chad Wilt, Michigan State*
$345,000: Bob Ligashesky, Minnesota
$324,000: Ricky Brumfield, Georgia Tech
$310,000: Kodi Whitfield, UCLA
$300,000: Brian Blackmon, UCF; Jamie Christian, Oregon State; James Thomas, Jr., Maryland; Nick Whitworth, Washington State
$290,000: Taiwo Onatolu, Kansas
$250,000: Karl Maslowski, Louisville
* - Co-special teams coordinator
Missing: Patrick Dougherty, Texas A&M; Danny Gonzales, Arizona; Cliff Odom, Mississippi State; Jordan Paopao, Washington; Chris Petrilli, Purdue
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