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Ohio State already had started paying more competitive salaries for assistant coaches before Urban Meyer arrived in November 2011. But when Meyer and athletic director Gene Smith sat down to discuss staff pay, Smith soon realized he needed to do m...

Links on a Wednesday. Nearly half of Division I athletic departments have higher spending rates on salaries than scholarships. Florida's home games against Tennessee and Florida State are already sold out, showing an early sign that the buzz mi...

Texas State football coach Dennis Franchione has agreed to a five-year contract extension that pays him $400,000 annually starting in 2014.

Tennessee athletic director Dave Hart has received a one-year contract extension.

Alabama defensive coordinator Kirby Smart, who's destined to be a head coach some day, will see his salary surpass the $1 million mark in 2013. The Alabama board of trustees on Tuesday approved a new deal for Smart, which will make him the highest...

Tom Jurich and Tim Pernetti are two nominees for athletic director of the year, but their salaries aren't in the same league. Jurich, the Louisville AD since 1997, makes more than $1.4 million, the most of any Big East AD, according to a report th...

UCLA's Dan Guerrero is the Pac-12's top paid athletic director, according to recently released figures from USA Today, while Colorado's Mike Bohn ranked last in the conference among the public schools that are required to disclose salaries. The sa...

Head coaching salaries have been on the rise for years. So have assistant coach salaries, sparking a further separation between the programs that can pay and the programs that cannot. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that athletic director...

DeLoss Dodds gets a $62,500 bonus if Texas' athletic department operates "with financial solvency," Kirby Hocutt gets a payment worth 6 percent of his base salary if Texas Tech makes a bowl game, and Kansas State's John Currie simply gets a bonus if ...

The head football coaches in the SEC are some of the highest paid in the country. Eight of the 14 head coaches in the league make $3 million or more per year. The athletic directors in the SEC aren't exactly going poor, but many of the other at...

Shawn Eichorst isn't the highest-profile athletic director in the Big Ten. While Nebraska fans are a pretty sharp bunch, I bet some would have a hard time picking out Eichorst in a crowd. The fact Eichorst succeeded Nebraska legend Tom Osborne as AD ...

LSU football coach Les Miles has a new seven-year contract that pays him a $4.3 million annual salary and keeps him in Tiger Stadium through the 2019 season.

Purdue has made the necessary investment in Darrell Hazell and his staff, paying the types of salaries appropriate for Big Ten coaches. Now comes the hard part: finding the funds for those salaries. It isn't easy for a program that has seen a decl...

Nebraska offensive coordinator Tim Beck oversaw one of the most prolific attacks in the Big Ten in 2012. Now, Beck is getting rewarded for that good work. According to the Omaha World-Herald, the third-year coordinator had his salary nearly double...

Florida International has hired former Illinois coach Ron Turner to take over its football program.

Paying top dollar for assistant coaches has become an issue in the Big Ten lately. Bret Bielema cited his inability to pay and retain assistants at Wisconsin as a major reason why he left for Arkansas. Purdue made a bigger commitment to its overall s...