Dude needs to do more research - Tubby Smith, men’s basketball coach, University of Minnesota:
Smith’s approximately $2 million in annual compensation represents nearly the same annual pay structure as his original contract; with those 5 percent raises, he’ll be making about $765,000 in base salary in 2012-13, and the supplemental compensation rose by $50,000 annually in the extension. But with how his team has performed and the state of the economy, even those modest gains represent a boon for the coach, who started out with a pay scale that now seems inflated for his recent accomplishments.
Football coach at Minnesota Jerry Kill makes $1.7 million, but coaches’ pay does not come from state appropriations. It’s raised privately or comes from broadcast revenue.
But that is mostly private money, not taxpayers’.