Salary-only data for Big Ten coaches

USA Today in 2006 assembled a compilation of the compensation earned by Big Ten Conference head coaches. Here, with Coach Joe Paterno's salary added, is the list of salary-only data:

-- Kirk Ferentz, Iowa, $2.84 million

-- Jim Tressel, Ohio State, $890,000

-- Glen Mason, Minnesota, $760,000

-- Bret Bielema, Wisconsin, $750,000

-- Lloyd Carr, Michigan, $647,619

-- John L. Smith, Michigan State, $645,834

-- Ron Zook, Illinois, $530,000

-- Joe Paterno, Penn State, $512,664

-- Terry Hoeppner, Indiana, $300,000

-- Joe Tiller, Purdue, $231,000

Note: The salary paid to Northwestern's Pat Fitzgerald was not released.