[Bamabeachlivin]

STARKVILLE — Sylvester Croom left for the golf course Friday with the relief that months of contract negotiation had ended - and with a thicker wad of cash to spend in the pro shop.
Mississippi State on Friday announced it would pay its fifth-year head coach $1.7 million in 2008, the first year of a four-year deal that runs through the 2011 football season. Four-year contracts are the maximum allowable under state law.
It did not disclose salary figures for the other three years of the contract. Athletic director Greg Byrne left Starkville Friday on a family vacation to Oregon and didn't return a phone message.
Though the raise - some $725,000, or 74 percent - was eye-opening to many, it only vaulted Croom ahead of Kentucky's Rich Brooks among Southeastern Conference coaches whose salaries have been in published reports. (Vanderbilt, a private school, is not required to disclose numbers.)
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[Lefty Noob]

He's definitely earned it. Croom has done a great coaching job with the Bulldogs, all things considered.