With the ink still fresh on Lovie Smith's six-year deal and the UI now searching for a permanent chancellor, The News-Gazette obtained and analyzed 33 contracts of campus chiefs and football and basketball coaches at other Big Ten public universities.
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The contracts for president or chancellor, men's basketball coach and football coach:
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Twenty-five things we learned:
The highest-paid public employee in all of Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Nebraska, New Jersey, Ohio and Wisconsin is a Big Ten football coach.