How much does Nebraska spend on coaches?

The Omaha World-Hearld posted Nebraska's 2012 coaching salaries on Friday. The brief rundown is this: John Papuchis gets a 50 percent raise to $300,000 for his promotion. Almost every other coach gets a $20,000 raise except for Ross Els, who gets a $50,000 bump in pay, and Corey Raymond, who gets no raise. Make of that what you will but Raymond was already at $200,000, the highest salary of last year's new-hires and equal to what Papuchis was making as the DL/ST coach. Bo Pelini will also get a $100,000 raise to $2.875 million. All told, Nebraska will spend $4.975 million on its coaching staff next year, up from $4.905 million in 2011. Seems like a big number and it is. Nebraska spent the third-highest amount on football coaching salaries in the Big Ten last year according to USA Today. But that number doesn't really mean much on its own given the wide gaps in football revenue across the Big Ten. What is interesting is the percentage of Nebraska's football mo...