With three coaches now passing $10 million, why college football salaries keep rising
Just over 10 months ago, USA TODAY Sports made the following statement in the wake of contracts that Michigan State, Penn State, LSU and Southern California had just negotiated with their respective football head coaches:
“Even by the up-always-up standards of college football coaches’ compensation, the past week has redefined the top end of the pay scale in ways that seemed pretty hard to imagine even this past summer.”