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| Coaches' first jobs: Saban's Coke truck, Bielema's Skylark and more |
College football 2015/NCAA 2015 coaches are just like anyone else, before they became household names with million dollar jobs, they were low paid assistants, with additional side hassles to make ends meet because the coaching job was not paying well enough. Here are some stories to help you understand where these coaches started from.
Bill Snyder
Bill started by teaching Spanish in a high school. In a report, bill admitted that his first job was as an assistant coach in Gallatin Missouri. Bill stated that he has served as an assistants coach for a very long time, first as an assistant football coach, assistant basketball coach, assistant track coach and women’s basketball coach. Apart from coaching, bill also served as a driver for a school bus and taught several units of Spanish that he knew nothing about.
Bret Bielema
Bret has owned a Buick Skylark in his first semester, before storming the lone star and ordering a steak. On the second semester, he graduated as a full time GA, where he only made $6,000 a year. Bret indicated that he served as a GA for two years before becoming the coach of linebackers at the University of Iowa.
Nick Saban
Nick started as a GA at Kent state under Don James. These are the guys that paid for his schooling; he worked there as he pursued a master’s degree. Nick got hired to coach linebackers when Don James left, as a coach nick earned $8000 a year.as a GA nick was also having another side job where he was driving a coke truck, the same thing happened during his junior and senior years.
Mike Leach
Mike started as an assistant offensive line coach at Cal poly-San Luis Obispo and he was more than excite for that position. He had just graduated as a lawyer and he was working on a masters. With a wife and a daughter bills had to be paid and mike had to work 16 hours a day.
Other Coaches such as Dave Clawson (started off working at a landfill in Lewiston) and Paul Johnson (caddying and hitchhiking). Each of the College Football 2015/NCAA 2015 Coaches started from somewhere.
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