Hopefully, your head isn’t still spinning from all the staff changes Ryan Day has been working on since the end of the regular season. In fact, you might want to excuse the “pardon the dust” signs around the football offices as they go through ‘Extreme Make Over: College Football Staff Edition’ over at the Woody.
All the changes have been well-chronicled, but not the salaries everyone will be making. However, that too is beginning to trickle out. And, thanks to the terms sheet obtained by Eleven Warriors, we now know what new assistants Tim Walton and Perry Eliano will be making per year (subscription may be required). Walton, the new secondary coach, will make a cool $700,000/year, while Eliano, who agreed to become the safeties coach, will make $450,000 annually.
Tim Walton will earn a base salary of $700K and Perry Eliando will make $450K as new Ohio State defensive assistant coaches. https://t.co/kZLcVWrmIO
— Bill Rabinowitz (@brdispatch) January 19, 2022
Those figures might pale in comparison to some of the other dollar signs we’ve seen thrown around the program for assistants lately, but remember that these aren’t your big-time positions within a staff. What they are, is a foot in the door of one of the biggest college football machines out there, and a chance to further one’s career.
There are also bonuses and such that are pretty standard for all assistant coaches at Ohio State, but that’s boilerplate stuff for the program. In both cases, the assistants are making more in Columbus than in their previous stops.
