The college athletics industrial complex has inflated salaries for football coaches and administrators across the country, according to a survey compiled by USA Today and athleticdirectoru.com.
The survey, which analyzed salaries for both at public universities across the country (private colleges do not make their salaries public), found that average salaries across the Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly called Division 1A), which has 129 teams in total, increased 31.9 percent over the last five years.
The survey also revealed another interesting nugget — the Pac-12 ranks last amongst Power-Five conferences in average total compensation ($695,292), with the Atlantic Coast Conference leading the way, averaging a whopping $1.