Pat Hill will take a more than $300,000 cut in guaranteed pay in 2011, an extraordinary concession to a school budget stretched thin by the troubled economy. Other schools are eyeing the concept, but the question is how many will follow through and resist the compulsion in big-time college athletics to spend big in search of success. This year, USA TODAY?s analysis of coaches? salaries finds, at least 59 head football coaches make $1 million or more annually plus bonuses ? just shy of half of the 120 in the NCAA?s top-tier bowl subdivision.
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