College football's money men: recent coaching hires, salaries

How recent coaching hires have fared financially:

January 5, 2017 at 5:19AM

The first-year salaries of some of the coaches hired in major college football in December and November:

Coach, School, 2017 salary

Tom Herman,Texas,$5.25 million

Jeff Brohm,xPurdue, $3.3 million

Willie Taggart, Oregon, $2.9 million

Luke Fickell, Cincinnati, $2.3 million

Jeff Tedford, Fresno State, $1.6 million

Lane Kiffin, Florida Atlantic, $1 million

Randy Edsall, Connecticut, $1 million

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