Resume Building: Job Titles Don't Always Link to Executive Remuneration

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 four years ago when forsaking head-coaching responsibilities with UC Riverside to become chief assistant at Arkansas and likely duplicated the feat this year when abandoning job as bench boss for Sacramento State to become an aide at Louisiana State. Billy Donlon, joining Clemson's staff as an aide two 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: Painter and Williams were head-coaches-in-waiting. Stoudamire (Georgia Tech) and Terry (Texas) are now power-conference head coaches while Williams is coaching Texas A&M.