The 5 coaches paid more than him would be Bill Self at Kansas($8.6 million), Scott Drew at Baylor ($5.1 million), Kelvin Sampson at Houston ($4.6 million), Jamie Dixon at TCU ($3.8 million), and Tommy Lloyd at Arizona ($3.7 million). Compare that to Pope's low-$2 million contract which would have placed him in the bottom 4 of salary earners in the conference (ahead of only Craig Smith at Utah, Johny Dawkins at UCF, and Josh Eilert at West Virginia).