Dalonte Hill is College Basketball's Highest Paid Assistant Coach

If I were to ask you what school had the highest paid assistant coach in the country, where would Kansas State be on that list? I'm guessing not first. Bob McClennan over at Rivals did some investigating, and found that Kansas State's Dalonte Hill is probably the highest paid assistant coach in the country.

By A LOT.

Hill will make $420,000 next year in salary and "extra benefits", which is $150,000 more than the next highest paid assistant that McClennan looked at (he only examined the 10 public universities in the top 15 of the 2007-08 post season poll, as well as Ohio State, Florida, and Kentucky; private universities aren't required to release this information).

I'm sure you won't be surprised to hear that Dalonte Hill was Michael Beasley's AAU coach in DC, and that Beasley looked on him as an older brother. I'm also sure you won't be surprised to find out that Hill was coaching at Charlotte during Beasley's last high school season (where Beasley was all set to go) until Bob Huggins swooped in and offered Hill the huge contract. And I was complaining about Billy Gillespie paying a recruit's father a couple grand?

Seriously though, take a look at this chart:


Those are the salaries for the assistants of the four teams that reached the Final Four last year, and four of the best and most consistent programs in the country. And Hill makes more than everyone one of them. He makes more than the entire staffs (three assistants per school) of Ohio State, Wisconsin, and Washington State.

I don't want to criticize a guy for getting his, but I really hope this guy is actually a decent coach (which he probably is - this will be his sixth season as a D-1 assistant, three of which were with Charlotte), because eventually he won't be able to eat off of his relationship with Michael Beasley.