Between Urban Meyer's arrival in 2012 and Jim Harbaugh's return to Ann Arbor, Michigan, just over a year ago, the Big Ten possessed one of the more interesting coaching stables in all of college football in 2015.
And after a trio off offseason head coaching hires that included two in-conference coordinators and a former NFL headman, the conference's coaching roster has only become even more fascinating in 2016.
It's not just the head coaches who matter but also each team's respective coaching staff. A lot of times, a program will get out what it puts into its coaching salary pool, a line of thinking the Big Ten has wrestled with in recent years.