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Statistical Analysis of Football Coaches Salaries

sarasota-card — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:31:17 -0000

In an ongoing effort to bring more math to this site, I decided to delve into the coaches salary information that was published in a USA Today article about 2009 NCAA college football contracts (hat tip to Brian Bennett who found it first for his blog). Unfortunately, there's quite a bit of missing information (there's no data for 9 schools), and a lot of it in the Big East. But poor data has never stopped a thorough analysis before, so lets go!

Kragthorpe's total salary is $1,216,000.

Kragthorpe ranks 47th out of 112 reporting schools
Highest reported: Pete Carroll - USC - $4,386,652)
Lowest reported: Charlie Weatherbie - Louisiana Monroe - $160,000

Kragthorpe makes 2.2% more than the average salary of $1,189,223.

Kragthorpe ranks 5th out of Big East Schools (but Pitt did not report Wannstedt's outside income, and Syracuse is being a dick about the whole thing).
Highest reported: Greg Schiano - Rutgets - $2,070,932)
Lowest reported: Bill Stewart - West Virginia - $878,000)

Kragthorpe makes 11.0% less than the average Big East salary of $1,365,246.

The Big East has the 6th highest average salary out of 12 conferences.

SEC - $2,637,599
Big 12 - $1,982,504
ACC - $1,844,198
Pac-10 - $1,791,248
Big Ten - $1,764,678
Big East - $1,365,246
MWC - $894,535
CUSA - $807,939
WAC - $605,675
Independent * - $503,105
MAC - $341,678
Sun Belt - $281,647

* I know Independent isn't really a conference, and I don't care.

I would love to build a database that corrilates this with the coaches winning percentage. Then use that to calculate a "Return of Investment" factor to see where we rank there, but I have a real job and they might fire me if I don't get back to doing it. One last thing, though...

If we hired Jon Gruden for the rumored $3.5 mil, he would rank tops in the Big East, 7th overall, and higher than nine of the SEC schools. I'm just saying.

Something horrible happened to my bracket

sarasota-card — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:55:19 -0000

I'm the only Card fan in my office bracket pool, even though we're not that rare here in Florida. I had to send this email to everyone in the pool today. I thought I would share it with you:

Dear Competitors,

Something horrible happened to my bracket between the time I made my picks and today. Jason first pointed it out to me, and then I got a call from Brent. My bracket “The Bracket” has North Carolina winning the National Championship.

If you know me, you know I’m a Louisville Cardinal fan. I’ve filled out at least one bracket with Louisville winning the whole thing every year. I’ve been waiting for a year like this, when we might actually have a chance to actually pull it off. I only did one bracket this year, The Bracket, and I swear to you that I picked Louisville to finish on top. I don’t know what happened, but I feel sick to my stomach. Those UNC punks knocked my beloved Cards out of the tournament last year. There is no way I would pick them to accomplish anything more than getting there baby blue backsides handed to them by The Ville.

So if my bracket performs well enough to be in contention at the end, I ask that my final score be modified to show my true prediction. Even if it means declining the winnings (I won’t want the winnings then anyway, just a tissue).

Go Cards

Thanks,

-Tim

So what do you think? Am I a drama queen, or what?

ps: I erased the exclation points after "Go Cards" just for you, Mike.

Octonion: Revenge Of The Fallen

sarasota-card — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:32:21 -0000

Octonion: Revenge Of The Fallen

Like my chain-smoking Aunt Wanda always said, if you're down in the dumps, might as well wallow in it for a while. To that end, here's a football related link. Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician gives us the latest installment of the Octonion, wherein we discover there's something more sinister than we could have ever imagined behind the recent recruit stealing perpetrated by Syracuse...

The Day The Octonion Stood Still

sarasota-card — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:04:06 -0000

The Day The Octonion Stood Still

I love this stuff. I know it usually gets linked here eventually, but the topic is time sensitive so read it quickly.