Cost per win (aka “Lynch deserves a raise”)

An interesting chart went up on USA Today (and it wasn’t a pie chart! Will wonders never cease?).

It details Division 1 schools, what they pay their head coaches, and what they paid per win in 2007.

Lemme give you the Big Ten results;

School————-Coach——-salary———-paid per win
Minnesota——–Brewster—-$1,000,000—$1,000,000
Iowa—————Ferentz——$3,030,000—–$505,000
Purdue————Tiller———-$1,764,806—–$252,115
Ohio State——–Tressel——-$2,367,000—–$215,182
Michigan———-Carr———–$1,482,884—–$185,361
Michigan State—Dantonio—-$1,150,000—–$164,286
Wisconsin———Bielema——$1,394,638—–$154,960
Illinois————-Zook———-$1,055,000—–$117,222
Indiana————Lynch———-$293,297——$41,900

Penn State was not included, as they do not officially release Paterno’s salary (despite what you read last week). Same thing goes for Northwestern.

Indiana has themselves a sweetheart deal with Lynch. And I know that a lot of that was based on emotional performances in honor of Indiana’s fallen coach Terry Hoeppner. But Lynch deserves a ton of credit for turning that heart=break and that pain into a winning team. He will add tradition to IU, and will give that school their $41,900 worth.

The whole list can be found here.

Enjoy.