How Much Money Does Lane Kiffin Make

$Kiffin hasn't earned a fraction of salary yet as a head coach.$

Kiffin hasn't earned a fraction of salary yet as a head coach.

Let's start with the most overpaid coaches:

1. Lane Kiffin - USCWhen it comes to overpaid coaches, can anyone hold a candle to Lane Kiffin? What has he done exactly? His overall coaching record as a head coach is 20 wins and 26 losses. He's a losing coach that's making the fourth highest salary in college football.

Were it not for him dragging his father along with him for a "package deal," Kiffin would be unemployed as a head coach and be struggling to find an offensive coordinator's job.

You may love Lane Kiffin or USC, but let's be fair, his $4 million salary is a joke. His best year as a coach was an 8-5 season. Most coaches get fired for those results and that was his best.

2, Kirk Ferentz - IowaWith high pay comes high expectations and high criticism when it doesn't pan out. Though I believe Kirk Ferentz is a good coach, he's just not deserving of being the fifth highest paid college coach with his $3.8 million dollar salary. He's only played in two BCS bowls, never played for national title and has only tied for first place in his conference—never won it outright.

A good coach, but just not worth the money yet.

Over his last five seasons, he's only had a 62 percent winning percentage with only four winning seasons.

When you get the big boy pay, you better produce, and it's not arguable that others are doing far better with far less pay.

3. Bobby Petrino - ArkansasDo I think Bobby Petrino is a great coach? Yes, I do. Do I think that he'll eventually have Arkansas in contention for an SEC title? Yes I do.

But that's what he could do, not what he has done.

His record at Arkansas is 23-15 for a mere 65 percent winning percentage overall. What makes him really not worth the $3.6 million salary is the 11-13 overall record in the SEC.

In other words, he has a losing record in the SEC. That doesn't deserve the eighth highest salary in college football.

4, Jim Grobe - Wake ForestFirst of all, this is Wake Forest. Hey nothing against Wake Forest, but really, they have the ninth highest paid coach in football? And Jim Grobe's record over the last four years is a lousy 17-25.

Nothing against Grobe, but who couldn't get the results he's gottten

So you lose over 60 percent of your games and you still get $2.9 million a year?

Where do I sign up?

5. Steve Spurrier - South CarolinaOver the last six seasons, his entire tenure with the Gamecocks, Spurrier is 44-33 with no SEC titles. He has only one SEC East title, which came during the year that Florida and Tennessee were in a major rebuilding mode and Georgia simply did nothing.

To Spurrier's credit, he refused to take a raise himself and instead asked his assistants to be paid more.

Still, for $2.8 million and tying for 10th place overall in highest paid coaches, he's simply overpaid.

Now for the most underpaid:

1. Joe Paterno - Penn StateHe was a national title winner twice, the same number of national titles as Urban Meyer and Nick Saban. He barely makes over $1 million a year, about $4 million a year less than Meyer and Saban.

The poster boy of underpaid coaches, Joe Paterno

No living coach embodies college football more that Joe Paterno. At an age of over 80, he had back-to-back 11-win seasons in 2008 and 2009.

When you figure in that Coach Paterno has given his employer millions of dollars back as charitable donations, Penn State has saved a cool $25 million dollars over the last five seasons keeping Paterno on salary.

2. Bob Stoops - OklahomaYes Bob Stoops makes great money. His $4.5 million salary is the third highest in college football, but he deserves to make more than Mack Brown, who has accomplished much less in a longer period of time at Texas than Stoops has had in Oklahoma.

Each has one national title, but Stoops has seven conference titles to Brown's two and they play in the same division.

Should Stoops ever decide to leave Oklahoma, he could easily up his salary. Oklahoma is getting a bargain and they know it.

3. Bret Bielema - WisconsinNo, he hasn't won a national title and has only one Big Ten title in five years. But he has three seasons of 10 wins or more (three out of five years) and a BCS Rose Bowl appearance.

Bret Bielema should get a raise this year if all goes as expected

In the last five years, with only a $2.5 million salary, he's accomplished more than Mark Richt, Jimbo Fisher, Wil Muschamp, Bo Pelini, Steve Spurrier, Jim Grobe, Bobby Petrino and especially Lane Kiffin, who all make more and have done much less.

And this could be an especially good year for the Badgers and Bielema. Maybe he'll finally get that raise he deserves.

4. Gary Pinkel - MissouriTo win and win big at Missouri is tough. It's not a hotbed of recruiting talent and they're in a division that can be tough.

He's averaged 10 wins a season over the last four years and won the Big 12 North division three of those four years. How Missouri has managed to hold on to Pinkel is a mystery.

With his 10 years in Ohio as head coach of Toledo, his will be a name that will come up when Ohio State starts looking for a new head coach.

Then he'll leave his $2.6 million a year salary and move up a million or so.

5. Nick Saban - AlabamaIf you ask me how the nation's highest paid college coach could possibly be underpaid, then you don't understand economics.

Saban's $5.2 million salary is a mere fraction of how much football and athletic revenue at the University of Alabama has increased under Saban's tenure.

In just four years, he turned Alabama's economic and win fortunes around in a big way. Since going 7-5 his first year, he's averaged 12 wins a season and won a national championship. He also has the Tide in line for another this year.

Saban could conceivably end the year as the only coach with three BCS trophies.

If the University said they couldn't pay Saban any more money, but asked the fans to send money in, he could easily be raking in $10 million a year. That is how much the Alabama fans love him.