New to the Extra Points Library: Look up EVERYONE's salaries

Good morning, friends, this is Matt Brown.

It’s been a few days since we’ve shared an update, but that wasn’t because we weren’t working!

In case you missed this earlier, I’m excited to announce that we’ve signed our first conference partner, The Summit League. As part of our agreement, not only will personnel at the Summit League conference office get access to EPL, but so will ADs and staffers of participating conference institutions.

Everybody saves a lot of money, and we get more users to help us build an even better product for everybody. It’s a win-win!

But beyond sales, we’ve also been in the product lab.

Today, we’re excited to share an update that many of our school-based users have asked for: salary information for an entire athletic department.

Right now, the EPL is focused on employees under contract. You can find thousands of contracts for athletic directors, head coaches, assistant coaches, and general managers. EPL users can search by name, school or job title, and download the specific PDF in full.

But there are hundreds of other athletic department employees that generally aren’t under those formal contracts. Those would be associate ADs, athletic trainers, compliance professionals, television production crew members, academic support specialists, and many, many more.

We’ve begun to file requests to get salary information for every athletic department employee. Users can search by school or job title, and get the most recent annual salary.

You can access this directory by going to the new SALARIES tab:

Then, you can search by school, conference, or job title:

The point of obtaining this information is to help schools, coaching associations, agents, newsrooms, and other industry professionals to better benchmark schools and create benchmarks. If you’re thinking of starting a water polo team, for example, you’d probably want to know what the going rate is not just for a coach, but for trainers, new communication specialists, and other professionals, right?

We don’t have this information from all 220+ public D1 institutions at the moment. But we have enough data to start the process, and based on the response rates to our requests, we feel that we can add multiple new schools to this directory every week.

Check it and out and tell us what you think! We’re interested in your UX/UI feedback, as well as other suggestions that can make the EPL better.

We’re also adding lots of other conventional contracts

I think we’ve done a decent job of having the most up-to-date contract paperwork for the majority of football and basketball coaches across D-I and D-II. But earlier this summer, we noticed we had more blind spots than we wanted in other sports.

We’ve made a specific effort to dramatically expand our contract offerings for softball, baseball, women’s basketball and women’s volleyball. We have coach contracts for every NCAA-sponsored sport, from rifle to water polo, but we want to be as comprehensive as possible. We’ve also redoubled our efforts to get the most up-to-date paperwork on athletic directors.

That means we have the contract for Keli Zinn, the new AD at Rutgers, and updated AD contracts at places like Kennesaw State and Boise State. We have new coach contracts at Southern Illinois, West Georgia, Kansas State and Fresno State…and much more.

As of this afternoon, we have over 7,300 documents for D-I institutions, plus another 800+ for the D-II world. So we don’t have everything you might want…but we’re getting closer every day.

We’ve also been adding some quality of life updates

One bit of feedback I’ve heard from regular Library users is that sometimes the program can run a little slowly. I’ve noticed that too, which is why we’ve made big technological updates to our database system. We’ve also tweaked the UI to make it easier to run multiple searches without losing your place, and to make searching for particular schools a bit faster.

Would you like free Library access? Here’s the best way

It’s free for anybody to browse the Extra Points Library. But if you want to download any documents, or access our budget comparison tools, you need to be a paid subscriber.

An EPL license is $200/mo, or $2,000/year. We offer discounts for newsrooms and academic units as well.

But we’re also happy to give free access to the Library for folks who send us documents that we don’t have. Many of you are reporters or athletics personnel who may have access to contracts, FRS Reports or paperwork that would be relevant to our audience but that we haven’t gotten our hands on yet.

If you have something we’re missing, drop me a line at Matt @ ExtraPointsMB.com, and I’d be more than happy to arrange free access in exchange. Some states require in-state residency for requests, and others charge heavy fees, so we’re more than happy to do horse-trading to get documents we’re missing.

Thanks for reading and for showing interest in the Extra Points Library. We’ll have more updates, soon!

-Matt