Top College Coaches Make Millions; How Many Students Could That Pay For?
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Top College Coaches Make Millions; How Many Students Could That Pay For?
The cost of going to college is fairly eye-popping. Between tuition, room, board and books, expenses pile up quickly.
For the 2021-22 school year, the average cost of a public college was $10,740 for in-state tuition and $27,560 for out-of-state, while a year of private school cost $38,070, according to collegedata.com.
That’s a lotta lattes.
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If you’re the one writing the tuition checks, then you might be irked when you see how much money college football and basketball coaches make. How can a university pay a college basketball coach a seven-figure salary, then charge students $50K?
With the men’s college basketball tournament concluding, GOBankingRates looked at the top college coaches in basketball and football to determine the number of tuitions their salaries could support.
Spoiler alert: Three Final Four coaches — Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski, Kansas’ Bill Self and Villanova’s Jay Wright — are in the top 20.
