Yeah, wasn't Meyer making 4 Million?
SEC coaches salaries (2010):
Nick Saban, Alabama — $5,997,349 ($700,000 maximum bonus)
Urban Meyer, Florida — $4,010,000 ($575,000 maximum bonus)
Gene Chizik, Auburn — $2,100,000 ($1,500,000 maximum bonus)
Les Miles, LSU — $3,905,000 ($400,000 maximum bonus)
Mark Richt, Georgia — $2,937,740 ($600,000 maximum bonus)
Bobby Petrino, Arkansas — $2,713,000 ($475,000 maximum bonus)
Houston Nutt, Ole Miss — $2,509,000 (N/A maximum bonus)
Derek Dooley, Tennessee — $2,121,391 ($475,000 maximum bonus)
Steve Spurrier, South Carolina — $2,032,500 ($1,000,000 maximum bonus)
Joker Phillips, Kentucky — $1,706,600 ($1,105,000 maximum bonus)
Dan Mullen, Mississippi State — $1,208,295 (N/A maximum bonus)
Here's what MSU's AD said in regards to the Miami rumors. Kick it up a notch for Florida:
“I don’t know if it’s a function of ‘can’t’ as much as I think we’ve been in line with what the market has dictated in the past,” Stricklin said last week. “I don’t know if we’ve ever lost a coach because of salary and I doubt we ever will. I think our financial numbers will always put ourselves in the kind of position we need to be in.”