Spring Sports – Select Star Coaches

Ray Tanner’s South Carolina Gamecocks zipped through the 2011 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament to claim their second consecutive national championship with a series sweep of conference rival Florida in the College World Series (CWS) final. The clinching win set…

Full StoryNovember 1, 2011

The Role of Alma Mater in Coach Selection and Performance – Men’s Basketball

To consider this question, we analyzed the final results of 629 coaching stints of coaches active in the last ten years – a stint being defined as one coach’s time as the head coach at a single school – with…

Full StorySeptember 13, 2011

Thought Leaders & Emerging Trends

The Win AD contracts library contains many thousands of contracts to support best practices drafting by your negotiating team and counsel, including compliance management in coach contracts. So we were very intrigued by Tom McMillen’s April 26, 2011 article in…

Full StoryAugust 29, 2011

Men’s Basketball Coaches’ Family Trees

When an assistant coach becomes a head coach, does he win more if he comes from a successful program? To consider this question, we analyzed the complete staffs of coaches who have reached the Final Four in the last decade…

Full StoryAugust 15, 2011

Understanding Coaches’ Buyout

Win AD includes more than 21,000 coaches. With more than 20% of Division 1-A football Head Coaches being replaced each season (for various reasons), we reviewed contract language to benchmark buyout clauses. Here’s what we found: Of those coaches whose buyout clauses…

Full StoryJune 2, 2011

Winter Sports – Select Star Coaches

Kelly Graves’ Gonzaga squad have recorded all six of the school’s tournament wins in each of the past three years, and became the lowest seeded team ever to reach the Elite Eight with three of those victories this past tournament.…

Full StoryApril 3, 2011

Deferred Compensation – Analysis of Usage and Patterns

While buyouts sometimes can be tantamount to a transfer fee payable by the hiring school, deferred compensation is “money in the bank” for coaches, provided the requirements of the plan and the contract are met. If a coach leaves before…

Full StoryApril 5, 2010

Assistant Women’s Basketball Coaches in the Big-6 Conferences

Total compensation is just over $100,000. 99 have been coaching for 10+ years 28 have head coaching experience, eight of those stints at Big-6 conference schools. While there’s no magic number for how long it may take for a coach…

Full StoryMarch 1, 2010