SEC Basketball Coaches Salaries: How Do Howland and Barnes Compare?

Ben Howland's new contract with Mississippi State is worth $2.05 million per year for four years and Rick Barnes will be paid $2.25 million per year for six years by the Vols. As of today, the average salary of coaches that aren't named Calipari in the SEC is $1.8 million per year.

Here's the full list of the most up-to-date SEC basketball coaches salaries (all numbers listed are base salaries and don't include non-guaranteed incentives):

1. John Calipari, Kentucky: $6,500,000

2. Billy Donovan, Florida: 4,400,000

3. Bruce Pearl, Auburn: $2,700,000

4. Rick Barnes, Tennessee: $2,250,000

5. Frank Martin, South Carolina: $2,100,000

6. Ben Howland, Mississippi State: $2,050,000

7. Mike Anderson, Arkansas: $2,030,000

8. Andy Kennedy, Ole Miss: $1,800,000

9. Mark Fox, Georgia: $1,700,000

10. Kim Anderson, Missouri: $1,200,000

11. Johnny Jones, LSU: $1,100,000

12. Billy Kennedy, Texas A&M: $1,000,000

13. Kevin Stallings, Vanderbilt: N/A (Undisclosed)

14. ????, Alabama: N/A (No coach)

Coaching salaries are growing by the day in SEC basketball. If Alabama hires Gregg Marshall and pays him something like $4 million, the SEC's average salary (again minus Cal) will rise to $2.15 million. But there's little to show for these enormous sums outside of the recent successes of Kentucky and Florida. Hopefully this new set of coaches can make a mark and make SEC basketball worth watching and worth the money.