One name that I haven't heard come up nearly as often in coaching rumors this season is Baylor's Art Briles. Not because I felt he'd be looking to leave Waco, but I figure plenty of schools had surely noticed what he's done with the program and would like to pry him away.A task that just got a lot harder to do.
On Friday evening it was reported in the Houston Chronicle that Briles had agreed to an extension and raise in salary at Baylor. The details of Briles' new deal aren't known at this point, but it's rumored that he'll be making somewhere in the area of $2.5 million in 2012. Or as much as Charlie Weis just got from Kansas. Either way, compare that salary to the roughly $1.5 million that Briles earned in 2011, and it's a nice raise.
Briles is only 24-25 at Baylor, but is coming off a 9-3 regular season and the team is a bowl victory away from having its first 10-win season since 1980. Considering the state of the Baylor program when Briles first came aboard, it's a pretty remarkable turnaround.
