So, the other day, I got curious about something kinda specific. You know how sometimes a name just pops into your head and you start wondering? Well, for me, it was Kalani Sitake, the BYU football coach. I just started thinking, “Huh, I wonder how much a guy in his position actually makes?” It’s not like they just put it on a billboard, right?
Naturally, the first thing I did was hop on my computer. Fired it up, opened a browser, and just started typing stuff into the search bar. Things like “Kalani Sitake salary,” “BYU coach pay,” you know, the usual suspects.
Man, you get a lot of hits doing that. Loads of sports articles, fan forums, news snippets. It was a bit overwhelming at first. Had to sift through quite a bit of older information too, stuff from when he first got hired or from a few years back. You really have to pay attention to the dates on those things.
Digging a Little Deeper
I tried to narrow it down. Started looking for more recent reports, maybe stuff mentioning contract extensions because those usually come with updated salary details. It took a bit of clicking around, reading through paragraphs trying to find the actual numbers.
Found a few articles that seemed more reliable, like from established sports news places. They weren’t always super specific, sometimes giving ranges or talking about the total value of the contract over several years, which you then have to kind of average out in your head.
- Looked for recent contract news.
- Tried to verify numbers across different reports.
- Filtered out really old articles.
Eventually, I started seeing some consistency. Most serious reports seemed to point towards figures discussed when he got his extension a while back. While BYU, being a private school, doesn’t splash the exact number everywhere like some public universities have to, the general consensus from the sports reporting world seems to put his compensation somewhere in the low-to-mid single-digit millions per year range. Think somewhere likely starting with a 2, maybe a bit more. It’s definitely a significant amount, as you’d expect for a major college football coach.
So, what did I find out? Well, nailing down an exact, officially confirmed number from the university itself is tough because it’s private. But based on what credible sports journalists and outlets have reported, especially around his last contract extension, the figure is pretty substantial, definitely in the millions annually.
Took a little bit of poking around online, reading through different articles, and piecing things together, but I feel like I got a pretty good handle on the ballpark figure. It’s always interesting to see what you can find out with a bit of searching!
