The Best Paying Job in College Sports

Perhaps the media would like to assert that the head coaching job of Notre Dame's football program no longer has the cachet and attraction it once did. But don't tell that to other Division 1-A athletic directors who have been scrambling like crazed jackrabbits to secure their coaches with new pay packages before the non-attraction of the ND job takes hold:

Urban Meyer, Florida: 7 years, $14 million
Dan Hawkins, Boise State: 5 years, $2.6 million
Jeff Tedford, California: 5 years, $10.3 million
Bobby Petrino, Louisville: 5 years, $7.5 million (estd)

Total: 22 years, $34.4 million. That adds up to an average across the board of $1.6 million/year in increases.