Billy Maxwell really wanted to coach college track and field.
He wanted it so much that he left high school coaching after three years, taking a post as an assistant coach at Tennessee for $100 a month.
Having a wife, Kay, and two sons, Emory and Billy, and he’s making $100 a month.
“Well, $100 a month back then (1970) was worth, what, $300 a month now,” said Maxwell, who is starting his 22nd season on Gary Pepin’s staff at Nebraska. “My wife is an accountant, so she provided a lot of the support.”
After Tennessee, a team that included Olympic champion Willie Gault (later a member of the Chicago Bears' Super Bowl team), he was head coach at LSU, then Texas before joining Nebraska in 1996.