Resume Building: Job Titles Aren't Always Linked to Executive Remuneration

In the wake of Alan Huss leaving High Point to return as an aide at Creighton as Greg McDermott's eventual successor, it should be acknowledged that assistant coaches for NBA teams and power-conference members frequently are paid significantly more than head coaches for mid-major colleges. Just ask David Patrick, who reportedly doubled his salary five years ago when forsaking head-coaching responsibilities with UC Riverside to become chief assistant at Arkansas and likely duplicated the feat last year when abandoning job as bench boss for Sacramento State to become an aide at Louisiana State.

Ralph Willard was Holy Cross' head coach for 10 seasons before becoming an aide to Rick Pitino at Louisville. That's three years longer than Griff Aldrich served at Longwood prior to joining Ryan Odom's staff at Virginia. Billy Donlon, joining Clemson's staff as an aide three seasons ago, became the second UMKC mentor this century joining the following alphabetical list of NCAA Division I head coaches who had years remaining on their contract when they departed to become an assistant for a power-conference member or NBA franchise:

NOTE: Huss, Painter and Williams were head-coaches-in-waiting. Stoudamire (Georgia Tech) and Williams (Maryland) are now power-conference head coaches.