West Virginia Coaching Salaries Top $3 million

As the price of success keeps rising, West Virginia’s football program is paying to keep up with the elite of college football. When the Mountaineers put together a new football staff with plenty of name clout and state and WVU ties following the exit of Coach Rich Rodriguez to Michigan 16 months ago, the school allowed new Coach Bill Stewart to spend bigger bucks. In retaining holdover assistant coaches Jeff Casteel and Bill Kirelawich and hiring seven new aides, WVU then spent $1.975 million - up from a combined salary of $1.235 million for nine assistants in Rodriguez’s final season (2007). Times are tight … but obviously not as tight as an offensive linemen’s jersey. Now, thanks to 7.4 percent raises for most assistants during last season, a contracted hike in Stewart’s pay and $8,500 Meineke Car Care Bowl bonuses for each assistant, WVU has passed another notable threshold in football coaching salaries. That’s $3 million. The nine assistants are getting a combined $2,172,857. – Charleston Daily Mail