Who spends the most on coaches compensation
Salaries, benefits, and bonuses paid to coaches by the institution and by affiliated entities.
Oklahoma
$26.75M · $26,747,190
Texas
$24.63M · $24,632,746
Missouri
$21.11M · $21,107,952
Georgia
$20.20M · $20,199,138
Boise State
$8.56M · $8,558,520
Western Michigan
$6.96M · $6,959,798
Central Michigan
$6.20M · $6,203,506
Georgia State
$5.95M · $5,949,727
App State
$5.92M · $5,921,036
Coastal Carolina
$5.55M · $5,553,763
Georgia Southern
$4.91M · $4,907,219
Texas State
$4.58M · $4,576,594
Buffalo
$4.39M · $4,392,866
Arkansas State
$3.16M · $3,155,324
UT Arlington
$2.91M · $2,912,166
UMBC
$2.84M · $2,838,101
Murray State
$2.76M · $2,760,049
Radford
$2.54M · $2,541,471
Northern Kentucky
$2.41M · $2,408,426
Montana State University Billings
$1.04M · $1,035,844
How to read these rankings
These figures come from filed NCAA financial reports collected in our document corpus and parsed from the report text. 831 reports parsed cleanly; 56 could not be read and are absent from these rankings, so a school missing from a year has not necessarily reported nothing.
Football and basketball views come from the report's per-sport allocation tables. They cover recruiting and team travel, not aviation alone: commercial airfare, buses, hotels, meals, and other eligible costs share the same lines. A school can also leave some expenses unallocated.
Private universities have no public-disclosure obligation and generally do not appear. Fiscal years are not uniform — most close June 30, but some schools close on a different date, so a single “FY” column compares slightly different periods. Schools also categorize inconsistently between reports, so treat cross-school gaps of a few percent as noise rather than signal.