Rivera was the 19th highest paid head coach in American Sports

[Mr. Scot]

Not the NFL, not football, sports, according to Forbes.

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19 | Ron Rivera

Carolina Panthers

Average Contract Value: $7.75 million

Career Win Percentage: .546

Riverboat Ron, who was hired in 2011, was the seventh-longest-tenured coach in the NFL before he was fired on Tuesday. Rivera is owed one more year on the contract extension he signed in January 2018.

Number 20 on the list is Jim Harbaugh, just a shade under Rivera at 7.73 million. Just above him? Mike Tomlin and Andy Reid at 8 million.

The full list can be seen here: The twenty highest paid coaches in American sports

I had no idea...

[carpanfan96]

Damn that's crazy. 

[nosuchthingasapanther]

while it sounds incredible, 11 of the 20 coaches on that list are in the nfl.

ultimately, it means nfl coaches are extremely well paid.

i'm willing to bet if the list was expanded to top 50, 32 of the 50 would be from the nfl.

[Mr. Scot]

Remember, NFL head coaching salaries are fully guaranteed. We'll still owe him a year's worth next season.

[Waldo]

2 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

Remember, NFL head coaching salaries are fully guaranteed. We'll still owe him a year's worth next season.

Yup but when the cap isn't involved, it's a whole other game. It's just P&L and cash flow hurdles. I haven't seen any financials on an NFL team but I don't hesitate to say it's probably not a huge hurdle at the end of the day. 

I wonder if there is a clause that if he takes on a new salary it voids some/all of what the Panthers are due to pay him? 

[Mr. Scot]

If you narrow it down to the NFL only, here's who's on the list.

 

1. Bill Belichick, 12 million a year (Career Win Percentage .684)

2. Pete Carroll, 11 million a year (Career Win Percentage .602)

3. Jon Gruden, 10 million a year (Career Win Percentage .515)

4. Sean Payton, 9.75 million a year (Career Win Percentage .627)

5. John Harbaugh, 9 million a year (Career Win Percentage .606)

6. Sean McVay, 8.5 million a year (Career Win Percentage .705)

7. Mike Tomlin, 8 million a year (Career Win Percentage .650)

7. Andy Reid, 8 million a year (Career Win Percentage .613)

7. Dan Quinn, 8 million a year (Career Win Percentage .513) 

10. Ron Rivera, 7.75 million a year (Career Win Percentage .546)

 

So for the past two years (extension signed in 2018) both Rivera and Dan Quinn have been getting paid as Top Ten coaches.

[Mr. Scot]

Side Note: One final shot at The Observer...

 

[firefox1234]

No surprise, coaches are paid very well even when they are fired.

[Mr. Scot]

It's more about the pay to performance ratio.

Giving Rivera the contract they did was probably one of those "seemed like a good idea at the time" things but it ended up working out poorly.

[thennek]

When a head coach is fired, it disrupts a lot of families because typically all the coordinators, assistants, trainers and others get fired as well. And they are not paid nearly as much as a head coach so a much bigger change for them.   I wouldn’t feel sorry for Ron Rivera he’ll be just fine.  His staff and their families...

 

[Pimpdaddy]

3 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

Remember, NFL head coaching salaries are fully guaranteed. We'll still owe him a year's worth next season.

Money Money pocket change...comparable to you pulling a quarter out of ur pocket..

[t96]

3 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

Remember, NFL head coaching salaries are fully guaranteed. We'll still owe him a year's worth next season.

Not “we.” David Tepper. What Ron was making has no impact on the team at all. Unless you think Tepper is a cheapskate and won’t pay 2 coaches at once (but then he  wouldn’t have fired him).

[Mr. Scot]

5 minutes ago, t96 said:

Not “we.” David Tepper. What Ron was making has no impact on the team at all. Unless you think Tepper is a cheapskate and won’t pay 2 coaches at once (but then he  wouldn’t have fired him).

No, it's pretty clear he's not afraid of that

(another thing which sets him apart from Jerry Richardson)

[Harbingers]

12 minutes ago, t96 said:

Not “we.” David Tepper. What Ron was making has no impact on the team at all. Unless you think Tepper is a cheapskate and won’t pay 2 coaches at once (but then he  wouldn’t have fired him).

All money managers are cheapskates unless it makes a return.