At 9-3, the Washington State football team finished the 2017 regular season tied with Stanford for the third-most wins in the Pac-12.
A comparative analysis based on numbers from USA Today’s annual database of FBS football coach salaries shows that the Cougars’ football success is a relative bargain in terms of how much the school is paying its assistant coaches in 2017, compared to the rest of the Pac-12.
WSU’s assistant coaching salary pool of $2.74 million for the 2017 season, ranks eighth out of the 10 Pac-12 public institutions, according to information compiled by USA Today, which released its annual assistant coaching salary database Wednesday.