Longtime University of Georgia Bulldogs coach Jack Bauerle is set to receive his first pay increase since 2012, as details of an extension have been reported by Athens Banner-Herald. The coach of the women’s 4th place finishers and men’s 8th place finishers at the 2017 NCAA Championships is set to see a massive salary bump of $130,000 to go from $250,000 to $380,000. Bauerle is also slated to see his contract extended 3 years.
“It’s certainly generous and I’m appreciative,” Bauerle said. “It reflects certainly what our kids have done (in the pool) and a lot I think what our kids have done in the classroom, too.”
Georgia Athletic Director Greg McGarity stated, “We review current data for all coaches among their peers and felt like that these adjustments illustrated their performance level over a period of time.
“Jack is as motivated as ever to be our swim coach,” McGarity said. “Jack’s tank is full. He is excited, he’s enthusiastic, he is so passionate about his program and we feel great moving forward. We feel very proud he’s our head coach and are glad that he’s going to continue to be our coach.”
Bauerle’s previous contract, which expired on June 30, 2017, stipulated that he could not receive any ‘increases in financial terms’ as part of the corrective actions rendered after a UGA/NCAA investigation. The investigation found Bauerle allegedly made a special arrangement providing an extra benefit to a student-athlete, which is a violation of NCAA rules.
Bauerle is in Budapest this week serving in his role as Assistant Coach for the U.S. Men’s swimming team.
Jack’s been “underpaid” for many, many years. Deserves every cent of it.
Poor reporting here. The increase is 130,000. From 250,000 to 380,000. 249,999.96 to be exact. http://www.open.georgia.gov/sta/search.aud
Still underpaid
Legend at the bank!
Well deserved Jack !! I”m sure a nice dinner out with your great staff is next !!!
Just compensation for getting tossed under the bus (for no reason) by your AD. McGarity is just trying to regain favor around the Bulldog nation for his boneheaded move and trying to add some luster back to his tarnished and dented reputation. Good luck McGarity and thanks for hanging in there Jack.
I’m sure the Georgia boosters don’t care about swimming at all. It’s all football. There’s no need to “regain favor around the Bulldog nation.” 99% of Bulldog Nation that contributes to AD revenue doesn’t care about swimming. The sad truth.
The Bulldog nation cares about swimming and diving when it comes to academic achievement, awards, the Olympics, national champions/championships and the character being developed at UGA. So, swimming and diving does come up around and the Bulldog nation. By the way, I’ve been waiting since 1980 for another national title in football…..I’m kinda gettin’ tired of waiting!
Get suspended for six months… get a raise just a few years later! How quickly college sports administrations like to forget.
Throw your coach under the bus and look what happens when your coach’s
contract comes up for renewal.
Please do your homework. You can look up pay history and see that Jack was a steal for UGA over his career compared to other UGA coaches AND compared to other swim programs of comparable status. The only reason it’s such a huge raise is he was way below market. You bring up being suspended. You are correct, he was suspended. Arguably longer than he should have been. He could have rolled on Chase, the student/athlete, but he didn’t. Chase could have rolled on Jack, and he didn’t. I don’t think the athletic administration forgot. What they did is remembered Jack’s full career and every swimmer that has represented UGA. Go Dawgs!
I agree he is being paid fair market value, but i am basing on the international success of the men…..and that is only recent success….before it was one guy here, one guy there….now they are equally representing uGA as the women. but only in the last 3 or so years!
He’s great at his job..period.
Wonder if that means his assistants got raises as well? In-turn I wonder if that means that certain coaches on staff will stop shopping themselves around?
Shots fired