Larry Newman Tops Mid County Coach Pay

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Neumann tops Mid-County coach pay

Nederland football coach Larry Neumann is the highest paid coach in Mid-County while Port Neches-Groves football coach Matt Burnett isn't even the highest paid coach at his school.

In his 13th year as Nederland's athletic director and head coach, Neumann earns an annual salary of $73,136, according to figures provided The News in response to a Texas Public Information Act request.

Burnett, in his 12th year as PN-G head football coach, earns $68,862.

He is not his school district's athletic director. He is the boys' athletic coordinator for the PN-GISD.

Barbara Comeaux is the district's athletic coordinator for girls and the veteran volleyball coach, in her 34th year at PN-G, collects an annual paycheck of $70,306.

For the record, PN-G's second-year superintendent, Lani Randall, is the highest-paid Mid-County school employee, knocking down $118,150 a year in pay, compared to $109,999 by Nederland superintendent Gail Krohn.

PN-G principal Roy Esquivel makes $84,852, according to figures provided by his school district, while Nederland's Randy Lupton is at $77,836.

Like the superintendents and principals, Neumann receives a straight salary as Nederland's AD. All other Mid-County coaches are paid separately for their work in athletics, on top of their teaching pay.

Comeaux, who was teaching and coaching at PN-G when Burnett was still a student there, receives teaching pay of $54,305 -- compared to $46,834 for Burnett -- and that puts Comeaux over the top.

A third PN-G coach, veteran football assistant George Pachuca, tops $60,000 in total pay, collecting $63,180. A total of 17 of the 40 coaches in the PN-G district earn $50,000 or more.

Five Nederland athletic department employees earn at least $60,000 from the district and 14 of the 48 district coaches top $50,000 in pay.

Assistant head coach Delbert Spell ($66,286) and Southard ($61,881) join Neumann at the top of the coaching pay list at the high school. Central Middle School head coach Gary Babin ($64,937) and C.O. Wilson Middle School basketball coach Jack Lynch ($60,857) are other coaching vets earning in excess of $60,000.

Next on the list at Nederland, in terms of combined teaching and coaching pay, are football assistant Phil Pate ($58,000), football assistant Terry Pool ($56,997), volleyball coach Toni Leach ($55,310), track coach Steven Beagle ($54,964), football assistant David Crommett ($53,884) and girls' soccer coach Julie Johnson ($53,081).

Topping the list of 50-thousand-aires at PN-G are assistant football coach Boyd Edwards ($59,986), softball coach Dale Fontenot ($59,516), assistant football coach Richard Bethea ($57,989) and baseball coach Jay Stone ($57,148).

Fontenot is not a teacher, but earns a salary of $54,915 as the district's director of information services on a 228-day contract with the district. As a coach, he receives a $3,100 coaching increment for being softball coach and another $1,500 for being assistant girls' basketball coach.

PN-G's athletic department is full of veteran teacher-coaches, most of whom are on 187-day contracts. Five of them earn in excess of $50,000 teaching, a group headed by Comeaux and Pachuca ($54,305) and including assistant football coach Boyd Edwards ($51,348) and Port Neches middle school coaches Sandra Rogers ($50,499) and Catherine Mendoza ($50,128).

Six Nederland coaches make more than $50,000 based solely on their teaching seniority: Spell ($54,191), Southard ($51,386) and Pate ($50,916) at the high school, and middle school coaches Babin ($54,191), Lynch ($53,191) and Pamela Lawson ($50,386).

As a rule, the two schools' extra coaching pay, referred to by both districts as increments, isn't large.

Most PN-G coaches make between $3,600 and $4,600 per year from their increments. Nederland's coaches do a little bit better, with most coaches making between $4,000 and $6,000 in coaching increments.

At PN-G, the biggest increments go to Burnett as head football coach ($10,600) and trainer Joe Martin ($5,600). Burnett and Comeaux also each get $2,850 for being athletic coordinators. Football assistant Dan Welch gets $4,100 for being the football team's offensive coordinator.

PN-G's supplementary salary schedule for athletics, from which the increments come, is a bit confusing, but appears designed to keep the coaches' pay as equal as possible.

Like PN-G, Nederland pays high school head coaches in sports other than football $3,100. But the two differ in that Nederland pays the same hard and fast numbers for coaches' second sports as they do their first while PN-G's schedule seems all about keeping it equal.

That explains Spikes Sturdivant and Eldridge Ravey receiving $3,600 as PN-G head coaches for soccer and golf, respectively. They get more than most other PN-G head coaches because they don't coach a second sport

So-called "extra days" pay is an important part of coaching compensation for a majority of coaches at both schools.

Nearly 75 percent (29 of 40) of PN-G's coaches receive extra days pay. Football assistants get 15 extra days, volleyball assistants 10 extra days. Martin and Welch get 20 extra days.

At Nederland, 29 of 48 (60 percent) coaches receive extra days pay. Football coordinators get 20 days, football assistants get 15 days and volleyball coaches get 10 days.

In many cases, that pay is nearly as much as their coaching increment.

In Comeaux's case, it is more.

She receives 30 days extra pay, which PN-G's report shows comes to $8,551. That's compared to a total increment of $7,450.

Burnett receives 35 days extra pay, $8,578 in his case, which comes close to his total increment of $13,450.

Nederland's Spell racks up $5,795 in extra days pay, while PN-G's Welch earns $4,498. Trainers Southard ($5,495) and Martin ($4,567) earn a chunk of change with extra days.

In PN-GISD, extra-days pay is figured based on the coaches' teacher pay from 2004-2005. The school district froze the extra-days pay at that level this school year when it agreed to give all PN-GISD teachers a $1,000 across-the-board raise.

Extra-duty days pay boosted coaches' pay $92,944 in Nederland this year, pushing total coaching pay to $363,680 once you figure in Neumann's salary. Total coaching pay in PN-GISD is $267,897, including $88,797 in extra day pay.

Listed below are the supplements being paid to coaches in the Nederland Independent School District and the Port Neches-Groves Independent School District. Nederland's Larry Neumann is paid $73,133 as head football coach/atheltic director. PN-G's Matt Burnett is paid $68,862 as head football coach/boys athletic coordinator.

NEDERLAND HIGH SCHOOL

COACH SUPPLEMENT SPORT

Cindy Baker $2,000 Softball assistant

Monte Barrow $3,500 Football coordinator

$2,000 Assistant track

$,4089 Extra days pay

Steven Beagle $3,000 Varsity football

$3,100 Head coach track

$3,628 Extra days pay

Jeff Bennett $2,000 Assistant baseball

$,2000 Freshman football

$2,991 Extra days pay

Rob Bledsoe $3,100 Head coach soccer

$2,000 Freshman football

$2,915 Extra days pay

Brian Cates $2,000 Assistant soccer

Lynn Crawford $2,000 Assistant track

David Crommett $3,100 Head coach powerlifting

$,3000 Varsity football

$3,548 Extra days pay

Dale Dial $3,100 Head coach track

$3,100 Head coach cross country

Torrey Gomez $2,000 Assistant soccer

Bill Jardell $3,000 Varsity football

$2,000 Assistant track

$3,484 Extra days pay

Julie Johnson $3,100 Head coach soccer

Bruce Kilchrist $2,000 Assistant basketball

Toni Leach $3,100 Head coach volleyball

$1,500 Freshman basketball

$2,574 Extra days pay

Sissy Lemons $3,100 Head coach softball

$2,000 Assistant swimming

Rob Long $2,000 Assistant golf

Jorge Lopez $3,100 Head coach tennis

Melissa Martin $2,000 Assistant volleyball

$2,000 Assistant basketball

$1,903 Extra days pay

Karen Martinez $2,000 Assistant cross country

Phil Pate $3,000 Varsity football

$4,084 Extra days pay

Terry Pool $3,000 Varsity football

$2,000 Assistant baseball

$3,861 Extra days pay

Cody Robbins $3,100 Head coach baseball

$3,000 Varsity football

$2,769 Extra days pay

Kimberly Robbins $4,500 Assistant trainer

$2,594 Extra days pay

Tommye Robbins $2,000 Assistant softball

Judith Sandoval $3,100 Head coach swimming

$1,200 Pool operator

Larry Southard $5,000 Head trainer

$5,495 Extra days pay

Brian Spell $3,000 Varsity football

$2,000 Assistant baseball

$2,730 Extra days pay

Delbert Spell $4,000 First assistant football

$2,300 Off-season coordinator

$5,795 Extra days pay

Kelli Spell $2,000 Assstant soccer

James St. Pierre $2,000 Freshman football

$1,500 Freshman basketball

$2,769 Extra days pay

Brent Stark $2,500 Freshman football

$3,484 Extra days pay

John Tillie $3,100 Head coach golf

Laurence Williams $3,100 Head coach basketball

$2,000 Video coordinator

PORT NECHES-GROVES

COACH SUPPLEMENT SPORT

Pat Abel $3,100 Head coach basketball

$1,800 Freshman football

$2,902 Extra days pay

Stephanie Ansel $3,100 Head coach basketball

$1,500 Fall tennis

Aimee Bates $3,100 Head coach soccer

$1,500 Volleyball Assistant

$1,721 Extra days pay

Richard Bethea $3,100 Varsity football

$1,500 Powerlifting

$3,890 Extra days pay

Brock Buchanan $1,800 Softball assistant

$1,500 Volleyball assistant

$1,721 Extra days pay

Riley Burnett $3,100 Varsity football

$1,500 Track assistant

$1,611 Extra days pay

Jay Cegielski $1,500 Varsity baseball

$2,100 Freshman football

$2,834 Extra days pay

Terry Cobb $6,000 Varsity football**

Track assistant

Barbara Comeaux $3,100 Head coach volleyball

$1,500 Golf coach

$2,850 Girls' athletic coordinator

$,8,551 Extra days pay

Boyd Edwards $3,100 Head freshman football

$1,500 Varsity baseball

$4,038 Extra days pay

Justin Esquivel $1,800 Cross country

$1,500 Softball assistant

Dale Fontenot $3,100 Softball head coach

$1,500 Basketball assistant

Brant Graham $3,600 Head tennis coach

Eric Laing $1,800 Soccer assistant

Jake lefort $3,100 Varsity football

$1,500 Basketball assistant

$2,582 Extra days pay

Joe Martin $5,600 Head trainer

$4,587 Extra days pay

Wiley McKeller $3,100 Varsity football

$1,500 Basketball assistant

$2,558 Extra days pay

Vivian Myers $1,500 Track assistant

$1,800 Spring tennis

George Pachuca $3,100 Varsity football

$1,500 Track assistant

$4,275 Extra days pay

Eldridge Ravey $1,800 Head coach golf

Don Sandell $2,100 Freshman football

$1,500 Soccer assistant

$2,703 Extra days pay

Kyle Segura $3,100 Head coach track

$1,500 Varsity football

$3,304 Extra days pay

Jana Sheffield $3,100 Head coach track

$1,500 Cross country

Jeff Smith $3,100 Varsity football

$1,500 Baseball assistant

$3,069 Extra days pay

Jay Stone $3,100 Extra days pay

$1,800 Freshman football

$3,805 Extra days pay

Spikes Sturdivant $3,600 Head coach soccer

Dan Welch $4,100 Football coordinator

$1,500 Varsity track

$4,498 Extra days pay

** Terry Cobb is a retired teacher-coach. Under state guidelines, PN-GISD pays him $6,000 a year to be a part-time assistant coach.

[stang4life]

Whew....thank goodness for cutting and pasting, eh? That was a LOOOOOONNNNNNNGGGGGGG one! :wink:

[WOS92]

For that kind of dough, you'd think the guy could pull out ONE outright district championship. How embarrassing!

[SilsbeeD]

why bash him, hes a great coach. He has led his team to atleast the second round of play-offs in like the last 5 years. Not many coaches can do that.

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