News about James Franklin

Alabama's Nick Saban, the Southeastern Conference's second highest-paid football coach, is finally back on top, thanks to a new eight-year, $93 million contract extension. With an average annual salary of $11.7 million, the 70-year-old Saban is once more college football's highest-paid coach. Saban was previously earning $9.7 million annually. The school's board of trustees approved the one-year contract on Tuesday, just a month after Saban's former assistant, Kirby Smart, agreed to a new deal with the defending champions of the Georgia Bulldogs that will bring him an average of $11.2 million per season.