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9 SEC football coaches make over $2 million a year

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If you aren’t sure which conference is the most aggressive in college football, then this should make it obvious.  There are nine head football coaches in the SEC Conference that have a salary of $2 million dollars or more per year.  Four of those nine are going to make more than $3 million dollars this year.

Highest Paid Head Coaches in SEC (2009)
1. Urban Meyer (Florida) – $4 million
2. Nick Saban (Alabama) – $3.9 million
3. Les Miles (LSU) – $3.75 million
4. Mark Richt (Georgia) – $3 million
5. Bobby Petrino (Arkansas) – $2.8 million
6. Houston Nutt (Ole Miss) – $2.5 million
7. Gene Chizik (Auburn) – $2 million
8. Steve Spurrier (S. Carolina) – $2 million
9. Lane Kiffin (Tennessee) – $2 million
+ Source USA Today

What does that list tell me?  That Kentucky, Mississippi State and Vanderbilt need to pay their football coaches more money if they want to compete in the SEC.  Kentucky is only paying Rich Brooks $1.6 million and Miss State is paying new coach Dan Mullen over $1.2 million.  Of course Kentucky has an excuse because they just gave John Calipari a $4 million dollar per year salary to coach the Wildcats basketball team.

A few other interesting facts from the USA Today article:

* In 2009 there will be 56 NCAA football coaches making $1 million or more in salary.
* In 2009 there are 9 NCAA football coaches making $3 million or more in salary.
* 47% of NCAA Division 1 head football coaches make more than $1 million per year.
* Average pay for those head coaches is $1.36 million per year.
* That average pay is up almost 30% over the past two years.
* The average 2009 salary of assistant football coaches at Tennessee and Texas are over $325k.



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