Football and Financial (in)equality: Comparing Salaries of Men’s and Women Teams' Coaches and Men’s Severance Pay within NCAA Division I-FBS
This study investigates the relationship between women’s and men's team coaches’ salaries and severance pay at 104 public NCAA Division I-FBS institutions. Using data from the Knight-Newhouse College Athletics Data project from 2014 to 2021, the research reveals that the salaries of men's...
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This study investigates the relationship between women’s and men's team coaches’ salaries and severance pay at 104 public NCAA Division I-FBS institutions. Using data from the Knight-Newhouse College Athletics Data project from 2014 to 2021, the research reveals that the salaries of men's teams’ coaches grew significantly more than those of women's teams’ coaches, especially among the most competitive schools in FBS (Power conferences). At Power conference schools, the increase in the severance pay for men’s teams’ coaches was 5.3 times larger than the growth in women’s teams’ coaching salaries. The study confirms that the higher the level of competition, there is a growing disproportion of compensation in favor of men’s teams’ coaches over women’s teams’ coaches. FBS institutions’ chase for prestige means paying coaches of men’s teams increasingly more than they pay to the coaches of women’s teams, despite espoused values of gender equity, the intent of Title IX, and economic conditions.
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| spelling | doaj-art-092bab8425ec4c8e92a31181b99dfd1c2025-08-20T03:13:32ZengUniversity of Kansas LibrariesJournal of Intercollegiate Sport1941-63421941-417X2025-05-0118210.17161/jis.v18i2.21622Football and Financial (in)equality: Comparing Salaries of Men’s and Women Teams' Coaches and Men’s Severance Pay within NCAA Division I-FBSScott Hirko0Maria Tsyruleva1Jodi Upton2Wayne State University Syracuse UniversitySyracuse UniversitySyracuse University This study investigates the relationship between women’s and men's team coaches’ salaries and severance pay at 104 public NCAA Division I-FBS institutions. Using data from the Knight-Newhouse College Athletics Data project from 2014 to 2021, the research reveals that the salaries of men's teams’ coaches grew significantly more than those of women's teams’ coaches, especially among the most competitive schools in FBS (Power conferences). At Power conference schools, the increase in the severance pay for men’s teams’ coaches was 5.3 times larger than the growth in women’s teams’ coaching salaries. The study confirms that the higher the level of competition, there is a growing disproportion of compensation in favor of men’s teams’ coaches over women’s teams’ coaches. FBS institutions’ chase for prestige means paying coaches of men’s teams increasingly more than they pay to the coaches of women’s teams, despite espoused values of gender equity, the intent of Title IX, and economic conditions. https://journals.ku.edu/jis/article/view/21622coaches' salariesGroup of FivePower Fivemasculine leadershiprevenue allocation theoryseverance pay |
| spellingShingle | Scott Hirko Maria Tsyruleva Jodi Upton Football and Financial (in)equality: Comparing Salaries of Men’s and Women Teams' Coaches and Men’s Severance Pay within NCAA Division I-FBS Journal of Intercollegiate Sport coaches' salaries Group of Five Power Five masculine leadership revenue allocation theory severance pay |
| title | Football and Financial (in)equality: Comparing Salaries of Men’s and Women Teams' Coaches and Men’s Severance Pay within NCAA Division I-FBS |
| title_full | Football and Financial (in)equality: Comparing Salaries of Men’s and Women Teams' Coaches and Men’s Severance Pay within NCAA Division I-FBS |
| title_fullStr | Football and Financial (in)equality: Comparing Salaries of Men’s and Women Teams' Coaches and Men’s Severance Pay within NCAA Division I-FBS |
| title_full_unstemmed | Football and Financial (in)equality: Comparing Salaries of Men’s and Women Teams' Coaches and Men’s Severance Pay within NCAA Division I-FBS |
| title_short | Football and Financial (in)equality: Comparing Salaries of Men’s and Women Teams' Coaches and Men’s Severance Pay within NCAA Division I-FBS |
| title_sort | football and financial in equality comparing salaries of men s and women teams coaches and men s severance pay within ncaa division i fbs |
| topic | coaches' salaries Group of Five Power Five masculine leadership revenue allocation theory severance pay |
| url | https://journals.ku.edu/jis/article/view/21622 |
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