“Ensuring the viability of any football program at any level starts with hiring an elite coach with a proven track record – and keeping him. For Alabama high-school football, that increasingly means paying a higher coaching salary than ever.
Hoover football coach Josh Niblett received a raise earlier this month from $114,471 to a state-best $125,000 per year, according to Hoover City Schools. That marked the fourth time over the last 10 months that one Alabama high-school coach’s salary leapfrogged another to become the state’s highest-paid public school coach.
“It has kind of been getting outrageous,” Niblett said. “It started off with the money college coaches were making, but I think if you go to other states like Texas or Georgia you will find [high school] guys making a lot more than $125,000. The numbers those guys are making — and not teaching — are unbelievable.”
Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/AnaKasparian) host of The Young Turks, with Karomo Brown (http://www.twitter.com/KaramoBrown) and Becca Frucht (http://www.twitter.com/beccafrucht) discuss.