re: God Damned You Tanner and BOT

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Sam Pittman, Arkansas: $2,925,000 — No. 54

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Pittman, it should be noted, is likely to get PAID after this season and how he drug Arkansas back from the pits of hell.

He was, however, a big reach as a coach. Yet, despite playing the toughest schedule in college football, we won 8 games and are going bowling. Two years ago we were had not won an SEC game in two years. He's earned his upgrade.

So salary does not a coach make. You hired Beamer on a very similar "we are swinging for the fences so we aren't paying top dollar" approach. Well now it seems like it was a pretty good hire. There is nothing wrong, and a lot right, with hiring someone cheap and then bumping up their salary when they show you they can do the job.