All About The Highest Earning NCAAF Coach: Nick Saban
It is difficult to claim that anyone other than Nick Saban is the best college football coach.
Since taking over as head coach of the Crimson Tide’s football team in 2007, Saban has led the team to eight SEC titles, six national championships, and a combined record of 177–24.
With all of that brilliance, Saban has amassed a sizable financial fortune during his coaching tenure and remains to earn among the top salaries in the sport.
Alabama pays Nick Saban-
According to ESPN, Nick Saban extended his contract with Alabama before the 2021 season to retain him in Tuscaloosa through 2028.
According to the ESPN article, Saban will get $9.5 million in 2021, counting his $800,000 completion benefit and $10.6 million on median over the remainder of his tenure. His final contract agreement would pay him $11.5 million.
Nick Saban now tops Kirby Smart’s annual salary by $500k.
Saban: $11.7m/yr
Smart: $11.2m/yr pic.twitter.com/IYTgU1yeBx— Sidelines – Bama (@SSN_Alabama) August 23, 2022
Additionally, throughout the course of the season, Nick Saban may continue to make more money. His agreement contains bonuses for winning the SEC championship ($125,000), making the CFP ($400,000), and perhaps winning the national championship ($600,000). He has already achieved both of these goals.
According to USA Today, Saban was the highest-paid college football coach in the world in 2021, according to his $9.7 million salary. Ed Orgeron, a former LSU coach, came in second with earnings of $9 million, followed by David Shaw, a Stanford coach, at $8.9 million, Dabo Swinney, a Clemson coach, at $8.4 million, and Lincoln Riley, a former Oklahoma coach, at $7.6 million.
In the upcoming years, a few new names might be added to the list. Nevertheless, LSU gave Brian Kelly a deal with the precise sums to leave Notre Dame and replace Orgeron, while Michigan State gave coach Mel Tucker a 10-year, $95 million contract extension.
Nick Saban and Alabama have agreed to continue their relationship through the 2030 college football season with an added pay increase for the head coach. He will be 79 when the deal expires. https://t.co/JFM1qHADNm
— Roll Tide Wire (@RollTideWire) August 23, 2022
Nick Saban Net Worth-
Saban’s net worth is listed as $60 million on Celebrity Net Worth.
His profits from his past positions as a head trainer at Michigan State, LSU, and the Miami Dolphins are included in that net worth. According to the Los Angeles Times, Saban earned $697,330 while playing for the Spartans prior to earning $1.2 million annually at LSU.
Yesterday, Nick Saban once again became the highest-paid coach in college sports with an average salary of $11.7 million.
So Saban gets paid and it's ok, yet he and college football traditionalists continue to bash the NIL system? Hypocrisy again. Story:https://t.co/iInOaNsLLy
— First and Pen (@firstandpen) August 24, 2022
He negotiated a seven-year agreement that would have paid him at least $2.3 million and would increase by $100,000 annually if the Tigers won the national championship in 2003, according to ESPN. He only played in the 2004 season before departing for the Dolphins, though. According to The Washington Post, he agreed to a five-year contract with Miami worth $5 million annually.