Adding more fuel to the football fire! Forbes weighes in on the Coach Riley 2011 assessment!

Oregon St. Coach Riley made the Forbes list of "College Football's Greediest Coaches In 2011" coming in at number nine.

Now I know this is looking at one season's results, and I personally would argue that is a bit unfair overall, but it does make for provocative sports journalism! I also think this is interesting in light of the criticism about Coach Riley from the last couple seasons from many here and within the fan base.

But to make me take it a bit more with a grain of salt, former Penn Coach Joe Paterno made this year's "Most Efficient College Football Coaches" coming in at number 9! They did provide a "note" about him being replaced this season. And it cracks me up that one side is "efficient" and the other side "greedy" but hey it is Forbes and the bottom line you know!

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by AndyPanda on Jan 13, 2012 11:12 AM PST reply actions

#1 was Greg McMackin of Hawaii...

whose 6-7 record would have made him a hero of Oregon State fans and worth every cent he earned if he’d been coaching in Corvallis.

I agree with the article that the disparity between the salaries of football coaches and coaches of other sports is obscene. And like a lot of corporate CEO’s, football coaches earn big bucks even when they field mediocre teams.

by fanoverboard on Jan 13, 2012 11:51 AM PST reply actions

I’m with you about the disparity. It was interesting that Mike Gundy of Oklahoma State made the “most efficient” with a “coaches pay” of $2,100,000 versus “School’s average head coach salary” that equaled $462,263! But I guess the 11 and 1 record was something…

Hmm, enough of this fiscal year bottom line stuff for me. Will have to worry enough about that with figuring out my own taxes! Plus just saw that OSU baseball season tickets just went up for sale so almost baseball season!

-RVM

by rvm on Jan 13, 2012 11:59 AM PST up reply actions

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OSU Football Schedules

2011

Sep. 3 - Sacramento St. - 1 PM

Sep. 10 at Wisconsin - 9 AM PDT

Sep. 17 - BYE

Sep. 24 - UCLA - 12:30 PM

Oct. 1 - at Arizona St. - 7:30 PM

Oct. 8 - Arizona - 12:30 PM

Oct. 15 - BYU - 1 PM

Oct. 22 - at Washington St. - 7:30 PM

(at Century Link Field, Seattle)

Oct. 29 - at Utah - 4 PM PDT

Nov. 5 - Stanford (Homecoming) - 12:30 PM

Nov. 12 - at California - 3:30 PM

(at AT&T Park, San Francisco)

Nov. 19 - Washington (Dad's day) - 12:30 PM

Nov. 26 - at Oregon - 12:30 PM

2012

Sep. 1 - Nicholls St.

Sep. 8 - Wisconsin

Sep. 15 - BYE

Sep. 22 - at UCLA

Sep. 29 - at Arizona

Oct. 6 - Washington St.

Oct. 13 - at BYU

Oct. 20 - Utah (Homecoming)

Oct. 27 - at Washington

(at Century Link Field, Seattle)

Nov. 3 - Arizona St.

Nov. 10 - at Stanford

Nov. 17 - California

Nov. 24 - Oregon

2013

Aug. 31 - Eastern Washington

Sep. 7 - Hawaii

Sep. 21 - at San Diego State

2014

Aug. 30 - Portland State

Sep. 6 - at Hawaii

Sep. 20 - San Diego State

2015

Sep. 5 - Weber State

2016

Sep. 24 - Boise State

2017

Sep. 9 - at Minnesota

Sep. 16 - Nevada

2018

Sep. 8 - Minnesota

Sep. 15 - at Nevada

Beavers Football Schedule

Sacramento St.	Sat 09/03	L 28 - 29
@ Wisconsin Bucky's 5th Quarter	Sat 09/10	L 0 - 35
UCLA Bruins Nation	Sat 09/24	L 19 - 27
@ Arizona St. House Of Sparky	Sat 10/01	L 20 - 35
Arizona Arizona Desert Swarm	Sat 10/08	W 37 - 27
BYU Vanquish The Foe	Sat 10/15	L 28 - 38
@ Washington St. CougCenter	Sat 10/22	W 44 - 21
@ Utah Block U	Sat 10/29	L 8 - 27
Stanford Rule Of Tree	Sat 11/05	L 13 - 38
@ California California Golden Blogs	Sat 11/12	L 6 - 23
Washington UW Dawg Pound	Sat 11/19	W 38 - 21
@ Oregon Addicted To Quack	Sat 11/26	L 21 - 49

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