Of the five highest paid employees of Indiana University, three are involved with athletics. That was the case in 2013 as well.
In new evidence that spending on athletic department salaries is outpacing the rest of the university, if not the vast majority of the rest of the world, two of the next five highest paid employees also come from athletics. That’s half the Top 10. Last year, four of the Top 10 were from athletics.
IU basketball coach Tom Crean is No. 1 at $604,858; football coach Kevin Wilson is No. 3 at $531,644; athletic director Fred Glass is No. 4 at $458,007. They ranked in those same places last year, too, along with President Michael McRobbie at No. 2 and IU-Bloomington Provost Lauren Robel at No. 5.
Added to the Top 10 this year were Brian Knorr, the new IU football defensive coordinator, and baseball coach Tracy Smith.
It’s not news that college athletics is about big money and big business. Competition extends beyond the fields and courts to the bank accounts of administrators and coaches. IU’s sports-related salaries aren’t out of scale for head coaches and football coordinators and athletic directors at other like-sized universities. Smith will coach at Arizona State University instead of IU next year for comparable money and what he believes is a better opportunity.
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