I know there is some contention around Tad and his team's performance the past few years. I just wanted to show that Tad is outperforming his peers in conference, when you weigh those wins against those wins against head coaching salary, recruiting expenses, and totals expenses (head coaching salary + recruiting expense + operational expenses).
Where did the data come from
wins: I used a 3 year average for wins totals and includes both conference and outside tournaments.
coaching salary: The coaching salary was pulled from this link at USA today (https://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/salaries/mens-basketball/coach/) which has 2019 coach compensation. I made estimates for both USC ($2,500,000) and Stanford ($1,700,000).
expenses: The expense data comes from EADA here (https://ope.ed.gov/athletics/#/). The numbers are from 2017, but I am assuming that it is generally linear and a team won't go from 10 to 5th in conference.
The data is not perfect and we should be using a 3 or 5 year average across all of our data, but it is good enough to prove our point.
The first thing to notice is Colorado is above the trend line, These charts are used more for descriptive analysis and not statistical analysis, so just use them to see how we related to other teams. So we see that we are in the bottom half of the conference in terms of Salary, but 6th overall in 3 year win average.
This chart alone should show you that our recruiting budget is an absolute joke and we are winning in spite of spending the lowest amount of any team in conference in recruiting. I can also tell you this is going to get worse now that we are paying Mac so much money to not coach our team anymore.
And finally this is the combination of coaching salary, recruiting expenses, and operational expenses against wins. We are on the right side of the trend line again.
So what does all this mean. Tad is a great CEO of the basketball program. He is winning against his peer with less money in his budget and in his pocket. I would like to see two things happen before there is any talk of firing Tad. The first is give him a recruiting budget increase. We are about 22% lower then the #11 team in conference. We have a lot of team at right around the million dollar mark in recruiting budget and we are sitting under $800,000. Let move this to the average at $1.2 million and see how he does. The second thing is I want to increase his salary and increase the salary of his coaching pool. The average salary in conference is $2.2 million. I think we need to move him there and then increase the assistant coaching salary as well, which may in turn may mean higher quality assistant coaches.
All in, I think an investment of less than $1.5 million a year in recruiting and coaching would have a huge impact on the basketball program.
Where did the data come from
wins: I used a 3 year average for wins totals and includes both conference and outside tournaments.
coaching salary: The coaching salary was pulled from this link at USA today (https://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/salaries/mens-basketball/coach/) which has 2019 coach compensation. I made estimates for both USC ($2,500,000) and Stanford ($1,700,000).
expenses: The expense data comes from EADA here (https://ope.ed.gov/athletics/#/). The numbers are from 2017, but I am assuming that it is generally linear and a team won't go from 10 to 5th in conference.
The data is not perfect and we should be using a 3 or 5 year average across all of our data, but it is good enough to prove our point.
The first thing to notice is Colorado is above the trend line, These charts are used more for descriptive analysis and not statistical analysis, so just use them to see how we related to other teams. So we see that we are in the bottom half of the conference in terms of Salary, but 6th overall in 3 year win average.
This chart alone should show you that our recruiting budget is an absolute joke and we are winning in spite of spending the lowest amount of any team in conference in recruiting. I can also tell you this is going to get worse now that we are paying Mac so much money to not coach our team anymore.
And finally this is the combination of coaching salary, recruiting expenses, and operational expenses against wins. We are on the right side of the trend line again.
So what does all this mean. Tad is a great CEO of the basketball program. He is winning against his peer with less money in his budget and in his pocket. I would like to see two things happen before there is any talk of firing Tad. The first is give him a recruiting budget increase. We are about 22% lower then the #11 team in conference. We have a lot of team at right around the million dollar mark in recruiting budget and we are sitting under $800,000. Let move this to the average at $1.2 million and see how he does. The second thing is I want to increase his salary and increase the salary of his coaching pool. The average salary in conference is $2.2 million. I think we need to move him there and then increase the assistant coaching salary as well, which may in turn may mean higher quality assistant coaches.
All in, I think an investment of less than $1.5 million a year in recruiting and coaching would have a huge impact on the basketball program.
