Big time get. Apparently Hart laid half a million on the table in order to get him here.

Who are you, and what have you done with bottom of the barrel Dave, Dave?

Edit: Sounds like that information was wrong.

This post was edited on 4/7/15 at 7:55 pm

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Posted on 4/7/15 at 7:57 pm to TRUERockyTop

Updated salaries and incentives for assistants from Wes Rucker

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Tennessee associate head coach Rob Lanierwill have a base salary of $375,000 per year, while assistant coaches Chris Ogden andDesmond Oliver will be paid $225,000 and $175,000 per year, a UT spokesperson confirmed to GoVols247.

All three assistants also have various incentives built into their employment agreements. In short, they'll receive an extra month's salary if the Vols advance to the NCAA Tournament, with bigger bonuses triggered for appearances in the Sweet Sixteen and the Final Four.

Tennessee's $775,000 is a significantly higher commitment to the salaries of basketball assistant coaches — which, as several UT officials told GoVols247, was Barnes' biggest and practically only sticking point during negotiations. Barnes accepted a deal at Tennessee for approximately $300,000 less per season than he'd been making at Texas.

The Vols' three full-time assistant basketball coaches under former coach Cuonzo Martin made a little less than $600,000 in combined annual base salaries, and they were paid a little more than $500,000 in combined annual bas salaries under former coach Donnie Tyndall.

Barnes confirmed the addition of Lanier — who wasn't an easy man to keep away from new Texas coach Shaka Smart — on Tuesday, as well as the addition of Oliver.

Tennessee's new head hoops coach confirmed to GoVols247 on Friday that he had brought Ogden — the captain of his 2003 Final Four team at Texas — with him from Austin.