Every scholarship awarded to the university's 550 athletes comes from the athletics' budget, as do the coaching salaries.

Other high-revenue clubs can afford similar coaching salaries, but the low-revenue franchises can't.

Compared with some more stratospheric coaching salaries, his is bargain basement.

She said that in 1991, when her coaching salary was $6,500, the men's coach, Ron Kestenbaum, was paid $45,000.

He began to augment a modest coaching salary by becoming Carbocraft's American sales representative.

However, Nelson is expected to cash in on the escalating coaching salaries by renegotiating a deal that could extend two more years.

Riley's coaching salary is $15 million over five years, while Pitino's offer is expected to include $20 million over five years.

He is known for donating his coaching salary to his assistant coaches.

After his third season, he was paid a coaching salary of $12,000.

Money not used to pay the coach could be deployed elsewhere - improving coaching salaries in less glamorous sports, for example, or upgrading facilities.