How coaches salaries and the NIL bill affects college football
Dan Wolken breaks down the annual college football coaches compensation package to discuss salaries and how the NIL bill affects them.
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It’s the most overlooked story of the college football offseason, hidden beneath the never-ending drone of pay for play and the transfer portal and even more legal gymnastics.
Lincoln Riley may have finally figured it out at Southern California. Or at least, he’s on the road to it.
The same road that Pete Carroll used to build the Trojans into a 2000s monster, awakening years of underachieving with a tried and true formula.
Recruit elite players, develop elite players.
Win championships.
The fact that USC has the nation’s No.1 recruiting class in the 247Sports Composite heading into the critical summer months is one thing. That Riley has done it without significant success – and frankly, more underachieving – can’t be good news for coaches and general managers around the nation who know what can be when the Trojans are rolling.
Because right now, it’s not. Yet, anyway.
Riley is 15-13 in his last 28 games at one of the top five jobs in college football. The university is still on the hook for a Jimbo Fisher-sized buyout, so he’s not going anywhere.
But there’s something about the way last season ended, how a physical bowl win over Texas A&M gave the Trojans wins over SEC heavyweights to begin the season (LSU) and end it.
How that statement then dovetailed into offseason recruiting momentum for 2025 and 2026. How that momentum, and building organically through high school recruiting – and the play of quarterback Jayden Maiava at the end of last season – allowed Riley to pass on low-hanging fruit.
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