That makes him the fifth-highest-paid coach in the Big 12. He's the 28th-highest-paid coach nationally. That's $1,050,600 per win. And it's a substantial pay increase from what Gill was making as coach at Buffalo: $401,300 in his final season.
Gill is making more than Mike Gundy, whose Oklahoma State Cowboys are undefeated and ranked No. 2 in the nation, at $2,100,000. But you gotta figure that won't be for long.
Gill also makes more than Texas Tech's Tommy Tuberville ($2,059,000), Kansas State's Bill Snyder ($1,925,000), Baylor's Art Briles ($1,549,346) and Iowa State's Paul Rhoads ($1,150,000). A lot of men here will be asking for raises soon.
The top four are, of course, Texas' Mack Brown ($5,193,500), Oklahoma's Bob Stoops ($4,075,000), Missouri's Gary Pinkel ($2,700,000) and Texas A&M's Mike Sherman ($2,201,000). Seeing Gill in the top five is ... mind-blowing.
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Apparently that salary was supposed to be for Jim Harbaugh. A couple of weeks ago on 610, they interviewed a sportswriter in the Bay area and he confirmed (apparently what a lot of insiders out there knew) that Harbaugh had accepted the KU job but ended up not taking it because Perkins wouldn't let him stay and coach Stanford in their bowl game. Gill was apparently the "best" available coach left so they brought him in and gave him the contract that was supposed to go to Harbaugh. It is mind-blowing they didn't redo the contract.
career risk????? this guy couldn't coach his way out of a wet paperbag.....he was lucky to get the job....he was Perkins parting stab in the back to KU....he got the job for one reason.....and now no one will want to fire him because they don't want to be called racist....
Don't blame Gill for his salary. That is the amount it took to get anyone to take the job in this football wasteland. There was a big career risk for him that the job would turn out exactly the way it has - a career killer. KU needs to give him a break and not underestimate the depths of where Mark Mangino left the program and the fact that Gill missed an entire year of recruiting due to the lateness of the hire.
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