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.