While salaries are rising, you'll notice this list lacks plusses and asterisks of other positions. Only one running backs coach, Auburn's Derrick Nix, carries an offensive coordinator title, and there are fewer co-coordinator/run game coordinator titles, and running backs coaches are more likely to carry special teams duties than their peers coaching the O-line or wide receivers.
This, despite the fact that running backs coaches are now asked to train their pupils in more disciplines than ever.
$1.05 million: Frank Wilson, LSU+
$900,000: Derrick Nix, Auburn*
$850,000: Tony Alford, Michigan+; Robert Gillespie, Alabama+
$700,000: Shaun Aguano, Arizona State; Chad Scott, Texas
$650,000: Carlos Locklyn, Ohio State; Ra'Shaad Samples, Oregon+
$625,000: Trooper Taylor, Texas A&M
$605,000: Curtis Luper, Missouri
$600,000: David Johnson, Florida State+; Kevin Smith, Ole Miss
$575,000: Marquel Blackwell, South Carolina; Keith Bhonapha, Michigan State+; Jay Boulware, Kentucky+; DeMarco Murray, Oklahoma; CJ Spiller, Clemson+
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$560,000: Todd Goebbel, NC State+
$550,000: Kenny Perry, Texas Tech+
$525,000: Scottie Graham, Washington
$500,000: Damiere Shaw, Rutgers; Anthony Tucker, Mississippi State+; Thad Ward, Illinois+
$450,000: EJ Barthel, Nebraska; Josh Crawford, Georgia
$400,000: Brian Anderson, Kansas State; Marshall Faulk, Colorado; Norval McKenzie, Georgia Tech+; John Miller, Indiana; De'Rail Sims, Tennessee
$390,000: Elijah Brooks, Virginia Tech
$375,000: Chris Barclay, Louisville
$360,000: Keith Gaither, Virginia+
$357,000: Natrone Means, North Carolina
$350,000: Alonzo Carter, Arizona; Kolby Smith, Arkansas
MISSING: Mark Atauia, Utah; Jabbar Juluke, Florida; Cory Patterson, Oklahoma State; Larry Porter, West Virginia; AJ Steward, UCLA