National Football Foundation Chalk Talk
The Associated Press is allowing its voters to cast ballots for non-FBS teams starting with the Sept. 10 national survey. The last non-current-FBS member to be ranked in the then-AP Top 20 was Colgate with a 9-0 mark at No. 20 in the Nov. 7, 1977, national ratings. South Florida was named the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl National Team of the Week, following the Bulls' overtime win at Auburn... SMU honored its 1982 Southwest Conference and Cotton Bowl Champion team with on-campus visitors including RB Eric Dickerson and QB Lance McInhenny at last Saturday's game vs. North Texas... Connecticut started a "Husky Walk" routine on its trip to the stadium to allow fans to see the student- athletes prior to kick-off... Buffalo and Missouri will play for the first time on Sept. 20, 2008, in Columbia, Mo... Illinois has sold out the student sections for the remainder of the '07 season... Iowa State has engraved commemorative coins for $15 with the face of new head coach Gene Chizik... Since the announcement that Arkansas Baptist would have a junior college football program this season, enrollment at the school has quadrupled... Birmingham-Southern has increased its total available positions for student-athletes from 200 to 400 since adding football... The Emerald Bowl began public sales last Wednesday and is set for Dec. 28, 2007. Tickets are available online at www.tickets.com... Distinguished NFF member and longtime Georgia athletics legend Loran Smith has just released "How 'Bout Them Dawgs?" as part of the Georgia Football Vault Book Collection... Noted columnist Pat Dooley's new book "Game of My Life: Memorable Stories of Florida Gator Football" includes interviews with 31 UF football standouts about their favorite contests. The tome is available at Amazon.com and Florida area bookstores... 1971 NFF Gold Medal Award recipient and former Eureka College football player, the late U.S. President Ronald Reagan is no. 2 and Starbuck's founder Howard Schultz, who earned a football scholarship to Northern Michigan University, is no. 18 among USA TODAY's 25 most influential people of the last 25 years... Arkansas' 2007 helmets feature three special logo stickers. The Razorbacks have a "VT" logo in support of Virginia Tech in the wake of its on-campus tragedy. Arkansas also has a "JFB" sticker for John Frank Broyles, retiring UA athletics director ending his 34-year tenure in Dec. 2007. Players also have a "DN" sticker as a tribute to Danny Nutt, the former Arkansas assistant coach who was forced to resign last summer due to ongoing health issues. The Arkansas Athletics Department has also launched a "Recycle with the Razorbacks" campaign at football games... Kentucky has sold a record 51,000 season tickets, about 14,000 more than 2006 sales... Division III Heidelberg (Ohio) snapped a 36- game losing streak with its 37-26 win over Oberlin (Ohio) last weekend. The Connecticut football training facility, designed by HOK Sport Venue Event, has achieved LEED Silver Certification by the U.S. Green Building Council. This is the first LEED Silver Certified collegiate sports facility in the country... Florida has moved its Ring of Honor to the top of the north end zone to accommodate more names... Tennessee unveiled a renovated natural grass playing surface, non-smoking areas away from the stadium bowl, new message boards, and several physical amenities at Neyland Stadium last week in the home opener against Southern Miss... Wake Forest's Groves Stadium will be renamed BB&T Field in 2008. A naming ceremony was held in Winston-Salem, N.C., last Saturday... Florida State president T.K. Wetherell opened his President's Box to 50 students, 50 faculty and 50 staff and up to 150 guests of those who were invited to the box by a random drawing before the FSU-UAB game. The Big 12 Conference selected Dan Beebe, former senior associate commissioner and COO, as its third commissioner last Wednesday... West Virginia head coach Rich Rodriguez had his contract extended through 2013... Nebraska head coach Bill Callahan has received a contract extension through the 2011 campaign... Chuck Shelton returned to Delaware State as assistant AD/football operations of the DSU program. Boeing has become the official sponsor for the Apple Cup, which will be awarded to the Washington-Washington State winner in the schools' 100th series game on Nov. 24... XOS Technologies has signed on with Tennessee to become the first football squad to use the new XOS PlayAction Simulator powered by EA SPORTS... Southern Miss has become the third school nationally to feature a high definition message board, manufactured by Capturion Corp. and the Busby Co. of Laurel, Miss... Zinch.com has signed an agreement to assist in clearances for applications for students and student-athletes at MIT, Stanford and Yale... Franklin & Marshall has signed a broadband webcasting agreement for selected games with B2 Networks... The Big East Conference has partnered with JumpTV Inc. to design and power the conference's new multiplatform broadband environment. NFF College Hall of Fame head coach Ara Parseghian will be honored with a statue at Notre Dame Stadium inside Gate D. Dedication will be on Sept. 22 when the Fighting Irish host Michigan State... A statue of former Heisman Trophy winner Jason White of Oklahoma was unveiled prior to the Sooners game against Miami. The statue joins those of OU's other Heisman winners Steve Owens, Billy Vessels and Billy Sims... The 42nd annual Dallas All Sports Award Banquet includes dozens of dignitaries and top award winners: Lamar Hunt Award - Dick Vermeil (presenter Clark Hunt); Emmitt Smith End Zone Award - Darren Woodson (presenter Emmitt Smith); Pat Summerall Award - James Brown (presenter Pat Summerall); Tom Landry Coach of the Year Award - Tony Dungy (presenter Tom Landry, Jr. ); DASA Courage Award - Ron Springs and Everson Walls (presenter Norm Hitzges); Field Scovell Award - Bobby Bragan (presenter Talmage Boston)... QB Bruce Plummer and TE Bruce Hardy are two of the inductees into the Arizona State Hall of Fame... The Ole Miss M-Club Hall of Fame has added former greats Curtis Weather and Everett Lindsay to its ranks... All-America football student-athletes Alex Van Dyke and Marty Zendejas will be inducted into the University of Nevada Athletics Hall of Fame... Former Duke football standout and assistant coach Bob Cox is one of five inductees into the Duke Sports Hall of Fame... Arkansas State honored grid notables Tom Reese and Jim Wiseman at its annual Hall of Fame banquet last Friday... Former Aggies coach Jackie Sherrill and former player Richmond Webb were inducted into the Texas A&M athletics hall of fame... Iowa State will induct former football standouts Troy Davis, Ike Harris, Luther Blue, Merv Krakau and coach George Veenker into its athletics hall of fame... Butch Reynolds was Ohio State's honorary captain for last week's encounter with Akron. The Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) is accepting applications for the annual Volney Meece Scholarship for any son or daughter of a FWAA member. Please visit www.FWAA.com for details.
Division 1 College Football Coaching Salaries
Rank School Name Annual Inc.
1 Alabama Nick Saban $4,000,000
2 Oklahoma Bob Stoops $3,400,000
3 Notre Dame Charlie Weis $3,300,000
4 Southern California Pete Carroll $3,000,000
5 Iowa Kirk Ferentz $2,840,000
6 Texas Mack Brown $2,664,000
7 Louisville Bobby Petrino $2,500,000
8 Ohio State Jim Tressel $2,450,000
9 Auburn Tommy Tuberville $2,231,000
10 Tennessee Philip Fulmer $2,050,000
11 Texas A&M Dennis Franchione $2,012,200
12 Virginia Tech Frank Beamer $2,000,800
13 Florida Urban Meyer $2,000,000
14 Penn State Joe Paterno $2,000,000
15 North Carolina Butch Davis $1,860,000
16 Virginia Al Groh $1,785,000
17 South Carolina Steve Spurrier $1,750,000
18 West Virginia Rich Rodriguez $1,750,000
19 Georgia Mark Richt $1,713,000
20 Florida State Bobby Bowden $1,691,900
21 Maryland Ralph Friedgen $1,691,864
22 Nebraska Bill Callahan $1,690,317
23 Texas Tech Mike Leach $1,600,000
24 California Jeff Tedford $1,505,300
25 Kansas Mark Mangino $1,501,241
26 Michigan Lloyd Carr $1,454,619
27 LSU Les Miles $1,450,000
28 Washington Ty Willingham $1,414,772
29 Oregon Mike Bellotti $1,256,000
30 Fresno State Pat Hill $1,253,982
31 Illinois Ron Zook $1,241,750
32 Purdue Joe Tiller $1,217,742
33 Clemson Tommy Bowden $1,198,028
34 Baylor Guy Morriss $1,144,236
35 Iowa State Gene Chizik $1,125,000
36 South Florida Jim Leavitt $1,117,500
37 Michigan State Mark Dantonio $1,100,000
38 North Carolina State Tom O'Brien $1,100,000
39 Colorado Dan Hawkins $1,098,500
40 Missouri Gary Pinkel $1,095,000
41 Arkansas Houston Nutt $1,049,644
42 UCF George O'Leary $1,035,000
43 Georgia Tech Chan Gailey $1,009,181
44 Navy Paul Johnson $1,003,309
45 Wake Forest Jim Grobe $987,843
46 TCU Gary Patterson $952,162
47 Mississippi State Sylvester Croom $940,000
48 Memphis Tommy West $925,000
49 Rutgers Greg Schiano $911,000
50 Mississippi Ed Orgeron $905,000
51 UCLA Karl Dorrell $881,000
52 Arizona Mike Stoops $865,000
53 Connecticut Randy Edsall $845,000
54 Oregon State Mike Reilly $835,000
55 Hawaii June Jones $820,800
56 Cincinnati Brian Kelly $800,000
57 Oklahoma State Mike Gundy $800,000
58 Wisconsin Brett Bielema $761,600
59 Kansas State Ron Prince $750,000
60 Kentucky Rich Brooks $729,165
61 San Diego State Chuck Long $701,500
62 Utah Kyle Whittingham $672,000
63 Boise State Chris Peterson $640,000
64 Syracuse Greg Robinson $638,441
65 Indiana Terry Hoeppner $600,000
66 Washington State Bill Doba $599,042
67 Houston Art Briles $550,000
68 UTEP Mike Price $543,000
69 Colorado State Sonny Lubick $529,900 70 Wyoming Joe Glenn $505,100
71 BYU Bronco Mendenhall $500,000
72 SMU Phil Bennett $495,602
73 Tulsa Steve Kragthorpe $438,533
74 UNLV Mike Sanford $435,000
75 New Mexico Rocky Long $431,175
76 East Carolina Skip Holtz $425,000
77 Louisiana Tech Derek Dooley $400,000
78 Marshall Mark Snyder $390,603
79 Toledo Tom Amstutz $376,400
80 Duke Ted Roof $370,200
81 Nevada Chris Ault $360,000
82 Florida Atlantic Howard Schnellenberger $353,147
83 Southern Miss Jeff Bower $349,983
84 San Jose State Dick Tomey $342,100
85 New Mexico State Hal Mumme $283,800
86 Ohio Frank Solich $262,172
87 Middle Tennessee Rick Stockstill $254,800
88 Utah State Brent Guy $241,900
89 Troy Larry Blakeney $226,750
90 Northern Illinois Joe Novak $212,496
91 Akron J.D. Brookhart $207,500
92 Louisiana-Lafayette Ricky Bustle $194,250
93 Arkansas State Steve Roberts $189,655
94 Western Michigan Bill Cubit $188,000
95 Buffalo Turner Gill $183,000
96 Ball State Brady Hoke $159,220
97 Eastern Michigan Jeff Genyk $154,442
98 Kent State Doug Martin $150,200
99 Bowling Green Gregg Brandon $150,000
100 Miami-Ohio Shane Montgomery$139,500
101 Louisiana-Monroe Charlie Weatherbie $130,000
102 Air Force Troy Calhoun NA
103 Arizona State Dennis Erickson NA
104 Army Bobby Ross NA
105 Boston College Jeff Jagodzinski NA
106 Central Michigan Butch Jones NA
Percentage Of Out-Of-State Football Players
Signed By SEC Schools Between 2002-2005
(From Rivals.com)
Rank School Percent
1 Vanderbilt 82.4
2 Auburn 67.4
3 Tennessee 65.4
4 Ole Miss 60.8
5 Arkansas 55.0
6 Kentucky 54.5
7 S. Carolina 52.7
8 Mississippi St. 48.5
9 LSU 39.6
10 Alabama 27.8
11 Florida 27.3
12 Georgia 25.9 |
