Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson famously warned mammas to not let their babies grow up to be cowboys. The country music stars might have encouraged them to be fired college coaches instead.
According to an ESPN analysis of financial records of athletics departments at public universities, FBS programs spent more than $533.6 million in dead money in an 11-year period from Jan. 1, 2010, to Jan. 31, 2021. That's money those programs owed coaches in football and men's and women's basketball who were fired without cause with time left on their contracts. The severance payments were made over several years or, in a few cases, in one lump sum.
Remarkably, the dead money total is actually much more than that. The financial records did not include payments for many of the coaches who were fired during or after the 2020 football and 2020-21 basketball seasons. In football alone, FBS schools committed another $107.6 million in severance pay before mitigation to fired coaches and their staffs in 2020.
Coaches who received more than $1 million
Nebraska paid the most dead money in women's hoops
Dead money payouts to strength & conditioning coaches
Total Power 5 dead money found
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Basketball (M) head coach
Basketball (M) assistant coach
Additional payments: $899K to 8 recipients
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Basketball (W) head coach
Additional payments: $973K to 16 recipients
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Basketball (M) head coach
Basketball (M) head coach
Additional payments: $3.8 million to 13 recipients
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Basketball (M) assistant coach
Additional payments: $87.4K to 5 recipients
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Basketball (M) head coach
Additional payments: $442K to 15 recipients
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Basketball (W) head coach
Basketball (W) head coach
Additional payments: $1.7 million to 27 recipients
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Basketball (M) assistant coach
Additional payments: $140K to 13 recipients
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Basketball (M) assistant coach
Additional payments: $168K to 5 recipients
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Additional payments: $462K to 6 recipients
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Basketball (M) head coach
Basketball (M) head coach
Additional payments: $1.0 million to 10 recipients
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Basketball (M) head coach
Additional payments: $767K to 18 recipients
Total dead money payments to football
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Basketball (M) head coach
Basketball (W) head coach
Additional payments: $1.4M to 13 recipients
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Basketball (W) head coach
Additional payments: $1.7 million to 23 recipients
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Additional payments: $3.8 million to 35 recipients
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Additional payments: $2.4 million to 18 recipients
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Basketball (M) head coach
Additional payments: $387K to 43 recipients
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Basketball assistant coach
Additional payments: $1.2 million to 18 recipients
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Basketball (M) head coach
Additional payments: $768K to 8 recipients
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Additional payments: $91K to 4 recipients
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Additional payments: $407K to 4 recipients
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Additional payments: $197K to 8 recipients
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Basketball (W) head coach
Basketball (W) head coach
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Additional payments: None
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Additional payments: $13.6K to 1 recipient
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Additional payments: $2.1 million to 14 recipients
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Additional payments: $579K to 4 recipients
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Basketball (M) assistant coach
Additional payments: $1.2 million to 9 recipients
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Basketball (M) head coach
Basketball (M) head coach
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Additional payments: $5.0 million to 24 recipients
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Basketball (W) head coach
Additional payments: $69K to 6 recipients
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Additional payments: $16K to 1 recipient
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Additional payments: $125K to 5 recipients
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Additional payments: $4.7 million to 45 recipients
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Additional payments: $521K to 4 recipients
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Additional payments: $740K to 6 recipients
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Additional payments: $1.1 million to 22 recipients
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Basketball (M) head coach
Additional payments: $5.4 million to 33 recipients
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Basketball (M) head coach
Additional payments: $419K to 27 recipients
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Additional payments: $582K to 6 recipients
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Additional payments: $2.3 million to 26 recipients
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Additional payments: $897.4K to 19 recipients
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Additional payments: $3.5 million to 14 recipients
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Additional payments: $2.2 million to 23 recipients
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Additional payments: $165K to 7 recipients
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Additional payments: $391K to 25 recipients
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Basketball (M) head coach
Additional payments: None
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Basketball (M) head coach
Basketball (M) assistant coach
Basketball (M) assistant coach
Additional payments: $2.7 million to 35 recipients
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Basketball (M) head coach
Basketball (M) head coach
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Additional payments: $72.7K to 4 recipients
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Basketball (W) head coach
Additional payments: $673K to 20 recipients
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Additional payments: $107K to 5 recipients
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Additional payments: None
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Additional payments: $363K to 11 recipients
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