Compensation of College Football’s Head Coaches: A Case Study in Firm Size’s Effects on Pay

W. Jennings Byrd (), Phillip Mixon () and Alan Wright ()
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W. Jennings Byrd: Troy University
Alan Wright: Troy University

International Journal of Sport Finance, 2013, vol. 8, issue 3, 224-235

Abstract: Top management pay and firm size has been well documented. We explore a variation of this relationship by extending it to college sports. College football is big business, and many college football programs operate as large corporations with the head coach acting as a member of top management—similar to the COO—of the football program. Using data from 2006-2012, we examine the causal relationship between a head coach’s school pay, past performance, and football program size. Our results indicate the most important determinant of a head coach’s pay is the total revenue generated by the football program.

Keywords: firm size; compensation; head coach; football; college (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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