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How Underwood’s Salary Desires Compare to Big 12 Coaches and their Achievements

It’s been an interesting couple of days to say the least. Many fans, like myself, woke up Friday morning more excited to watch the NCAA tournament than any day for the last 8 years.

Three days later, not only were we eliminated from the tournament, but we lost our coach, and possibly Jawun Evans. There have been terrific articles articulating what this means for the last several days on this site. The question for me now is, did Underwood deserve the salary he wanted from Holder? In the famous words of ancient Latin writer Publius Syrus,

“Something is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it”.