This article says our assistant coaching staff makes a total of $338,897 per year, with Albin and Burrow the highest paid assistants at $126,333 each. That would mean we pay the 7 other assistants a total of $85,834....or an average of $12,262 each.

That can't be right, can it?

Those numbers for the entire staff don't make any more sense for any of the other schools.

Yeah, looks like the Hustle Belt article took "Staff Salary" from the USA Today list as though it included the head coach salary. If you subtract Frank's $513,900 from the $852,797 "staff salary" reported in USAT, you get $338,897, which is what HB reports as "staff salary."

The interesting thing to me is there is so little difference from one school to the next in terms of total staff pay, with the exception of a couple outliers, Kent and EMU. $100k is all that separates #1 from #10, so, when a school pays a lot for one guy, as Akron does for Amato, they obviously make up for it by paying a little less to everyone else. Ohio's seems to be a bit flatter than some of the others, which not that much difference between the lower paid assistants and the higher ones.

School  Lowest Paid Asst           Hghest Paid Asst        Low as Pct of High       
Ohio    Williams         74,025    Burrow/Albin 126,333         58.6%
BG      Naviaser         76,000    Elko         130,000         58.5%
Ball St Dixon            75,650    Ruggiero     133,000         56.9%
Toledo  Manning          60,450    Ayeni        115,450         52.4%
Miami   Spencer          71,200    Klacik       137,700         51.7%
Buffalo Spieler          62,200    Tepper       130,000         47.8%
WMU     Wenger           65,000    Ciarocca     140,000         46.4%
CMU     Guidugli         58,000    Tumpkin      132,197         43.9%
NIU     Copelant         70,002    Niemann      160,002         43.8%
EMU     Oshnock          52,195    Parrish      121,963         42.8%
Kent    Gamble, Campbell 56,080    Rock         137,600         40.8%
U. Mass Suber            58,223    Elmassian    168,394         34.6%
Akron   Pont             65,000    Amato        196,000         33.2%

Indeed, that's the way it shakes out. Ohio has the smallest differential between top and bottom. Does that mean Socialism is alive at Ohio? Nah, I think it just means that all the assistants are in for the long haul, and they are sharing what money is available fairly evenly. Meanwhile, as you'd expect, Akron has the most extreme range.

In a way it's surprising Ohio isn't higher up the list in staff payroll. There isn't much turnover, so you'd think most of the Ohio staff is towards the upper end of the pay range for that position, whereas some of the others that have a fairly new staff you'd think would be towards the lower end of the pay range for the position.