I found this over on Tim Griffin's ESPN blog for the Big 12 and thought it was pretty interesting. Basically, according to coacheshotseat.com, a college football coach should make 7.5% of the football budget. Based on that number, it shows Dan Hawkins is underpaid by $775K (on Griffin's original it shows $939K but Hawkins received a raise last year). The point of his article was that Mack Brown is severely underpaid compared to the revenue the football program brings in. Griffin's chart wasn't updated for new contracts (assumed Leach would sign the 5 year, $12.1 million contract) or coaching moves so I changed because it shows even more that technically Hawkins is underpaid compared to 2/3 of the Big 12 coaches when you look comparatively at football generated revenue:
| Big 12 Coaching Salaries | |||||
| Coach, School | Salary | FB Revenue | % of Budget | Salary at 7.5% | Difference |
| Art Briles, Baylor | $1.8M | $12.0M | 15 | $900,000 | $900,000 |
| Bob Stoops, Oklahoma | $3.8M | $40.0M | 9.5 | $3.0M | $800,000 |
| Gary Pinkel, Missouri | $2.3M | $20.0M | 11.50 | $1.5M | $800,000 |
| Mike Leach, Texas Tech | $2.4M | $23.0M | 10.43 | $1.725M | $675,000 |
| Mike Gundy, OSU | $2.2M | $23.0M | 9.57 | $1.725M | $475,000 |
| Mark Mangino, Kansas | $1.52M | $15.0M | 10.16 | $1.125M | $399,000 |
| Paul Rhoads, ISU | $1.15M | $12.0M | 9.58 | $900,000 | $215,000 |
| Bill Snyder, Kansas St. | $1.85M | $24.0M | 7.71 | $1.8M | $50.000 |
| Dan Hawkins, Colorado | $1.1M | $25.0M | 4.40 | $1.875M | -$775.000 |
| Bo Pelini, Nebraska | $1.1M | $30.0M | 3.67 | $2.225M | -$1.125M |
| Mike Sherman, A&M | $1.8M | $42.0M | 4.29 | $3.15M | -$1.35M |
| Mack Brown, Texas | $2.751M | $70.0M | 3.93 | $5.25M | -$2.49M |
| * Football revenues come from Department of Education Equity in Athletics Web site. | |||||
| Note: Pinkel, Gundy and Hawkins all have received raises since these figures were generated. Added Rhoads and Snyder. |
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| Source: Collegehotseat.com | |||||
The most surprising thing on the chart was the fact that the Buffs are only behind Nebraska, A&M, Texas and OU for generated football revenue. I realize that all football revenue doesn't come from game attendance but a pretty large chunk does. Folsom Field is 8th in the conference when comparing seating capacity, some 12,000 seats below the average of 65,222:
| School | Field Name | Rank | Capacity |
| North Division | |||
| Nebraska | Memorial Stadium | 4 | 81,067 |
| Missouri | Faurot Field | 5 | 68,349 |
| Iowa State | Jack Trice Stadium | 7 | 55,000 |
| Colorado | Folsom Field | 8 | 53,750 |
| Kansas State | Bill Snyder Family Football Stadium | 10 | 52,200 |
| Kansas | Memorial Stadium | 11 | 50,071 |
| South Division | |||
| Texas | Darrell Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium | 1 | 94,113 |
| Texas A&M | Kyle Field | 2 | 83,002 |
| Oklahoma | GaylordOklahoma Memorial Stadium | 3 | 82,112 |
| Oklahoma State | Boone Pickens Stadium | 6 | 60,000 |
| Texas Tech | Jones AT&T Stadium | 9 | 53,000 |
| Baylor | Floyd Casey Stadium | 12 | 50,000 |