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The high cost of a college football coach; Ferentz's salary part of price of fielding a Top 25 program

If a college football coach is going to make the nutty sum of $2.84 million a year, it might as well be Kirk Ferentz.

Ferentz has built Iowa into a Big Ten and national power, runs a Listerine-clean program and is the charismatic, humble spokesman every school would want for their program.

He also is Iowa's highest paid state employee by far and got a $1.4 million bonus just to sign his latest contract extension (that came after a 7-5 season). Ferentz's $2.84 million payday is almost 72 times what the average Iowa teacher will make this year ($39,284). Sure, Iowa's teachers are building the minds and shaping character of the state's future leaders, but can they beat Michigan?

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