Iowa's Strength And Conditioning Coach Chris Doyle Will Make $600,000 This Season

USA Today- There is now a major college football strength and conditioning coach making nearly $600,000 a year: Iowa’s Chris Doyle. Doyle will make $595,000 in base compensation from the university for a one-year period that began July 1, according to information provided by the university in response to an open-records request from USA TODAY Sports. Doyle’s compensation reflects a raise of $80,000, or 15.5%, over his pay for last year and it matches the basic amounts that Hawkeyes offensive coordinator Greg Davis and defensive coordinator Phil Parker are scheduled to make. Doyle is being paid more than double the amounts going to many of his Big Ten Conference peers, and it’s $70,000 more than what reigning national champion Alabama’s Scott Cochran is being paid this season. It’s also greater than what 29 FBS public-school head coaches made last season in basic pay. “Most of the people who follow our program know that what’s very important to Kirk is student-athlete development — physically, mentally, leadership,” Iowa athletics director Gary Barta said Monday. “He relies heavily on Chris’ role in that.” Since 2003, Iowa has had five former walk-ons chosen in the NFL Draft.

I have no idea why this is a story. I’ve seen it everywhere and I still don’t know why. Is the argument that it’s fucking crazy insane that a strength and conditioning coach can make 600 grand and the NCAA still claims that it can’t compensate the athletes in any way? Then that I understand and agree with. That is fucking crazy insane. But in the current environment of college football we shouldn’t be shocked by any amount of money that any coach makes. Yeah, $600,000 is a lot of money for a strength and conditioning coach to make (apparently more than 29 FBS head coaches LOL) but it feels like par for the course. It even says in that article that Chris Doyle makes $70,000 more than Alabama’s strength and conditioning coach. So why wasn’t it a story that the Alabama coach makes $525,000? That makes me think the shock comes from it being an Iowa coach. Understandable I suppose but Doyle is one of Kirk Ferentz’s guys, he does a great job (he has to because Iowa can’t recruit 5-star athletes) and now he gets paid more than the President of the United States for doing that job. Seems reasonable enough. Go Hawks!