When Michigan State agreed to a fully guaranteed $95 million deal with head football coach Mel Tucker last week, a longtime agent representing NFL coaches and players framed it in a context that would foreshadow the week to come.
“That [Tucker] deal is stunning,” he said. “USC and LSU might be $15 million [per season] now. Nick Saban is probably going to double his salary at Alabama.”
And the NFL?
“Everyone is going to get paid a lot more,” the agent said. “If competitive Power Five [conference] jobs are paying this, the top jobs could lure some NFL head coaches going the other way [back to college].