USA Today’s latest study released today on college coaches’ compensation reveals that at least 25 college head football coaches are making $2 million or more this season, which is slightly more than double the number two years ago, and the average pay for a head coach in the 120-school Football Bowl Subdivision is up 28% in that time and up 46% in three years, to $1.36 million. Two weeks ago, the Knight Commission released its survey of bowl-subdivision university presidents in which 85% of the respondents said they felt football and basketball coaches’ compensation “was excessive” as well as “a key contributor to the (fiscal) ‘arms race’ in intercollegiate athletics” and “the greatest impediment to sustainability.”

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