According to the Birmingham News, the compensation arm of the University of Alabama Systems board of trustees will meet Monday to discuss the contracts of two newly-hired Saban assistants — offensive coordinator Doug Nussmeier and outside linebackers coach Lance Thompson. Additionally — warning ! alliteration ahead!!! — the compensation committee’s conference call will consider, the News writes, “contract amendments for head coach Nick Saban and seven of his assistants.”
One of the “seven… assistants” is defensive coordinator Kirby Smart, who at $850,000 was one of the highest-paid assistants for his job title last season. Smart also oversaw a title-winning defense that finished 2011 No. 1 in nearly every major statistical defensive category. Based on the performance of “his” defense, Smart surely should get a salary bump. As (rightly) will the other holdovers from the crystal-hoisting staff.
The question is, will, or, more to the point, should Saban get the compensation committee bump? In 2011, Mack Brown was the highest-paid coach in America at nearly $5.2 million.
Symbolic or not, and probably in spite of what he actually cares about, it’s time for the financials to match the reality that most don’t or won’t want to acknowledge: Nick Saban is the best college football coach in the country.
by B. Taylor
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