Texas offensive coordinator Greg Davis will make $425,000 this football season, the same salary as new defensive coordinator Will Muschamp.

Davis' raise is nearly $75,000 more than the $351,000 he made for 2007, an increase of 21 percent.

Asked whether Texas now has the highest paid set of coordinators in the country, men's athletics director DeLoss Dodds said, "We're at the top, but we probably aren't the top. We want to be in the top five."

Dodds said he believes that some coordinators at private schools, which don't have to reveal coaching salaries, are making more than Muschamp and Davis.

In addition to the pay increase for Davis, offensive line coach Mac McWhorter, who also is the Longhorns' associate head coach, received a raise of $43,000 over last season's salary of $232,000. Receivers coach Bobby Kennedy will earn $197,100, up $12,000, while the pay of tight ends coach Bruce Chambers was bumped by $7,000 to $172,360.

The American-Statesman obtained the salary details through a Texas Open Records request.

Major Applewhite, who was hired as an assistant head coach earlier this month, will earn $250,000, the same salary he was paid at Alabama last season. Applewhite, the running backs coach, becomes the third-highest paid offensive assistant.

Dodds said Brown recommended his defensive assistants not receive raises after Texas finished the 2007 season with the seventh-worst defense statistically in school history. The Longhorns ranked 52nd nationally in total defense, allowing 371.2 yards per game, and they were 109th overall in pass defense, giving up 277.8 yards per contest.

Duane Akina, who had been Texas' defensive co-coordinator for the past four years, will keep his salary of $300,000 despite being demoted earlier this month.

Akina lost his coordinator position when Muschamp was hired Jan. 4. Akina is now in charge of the secondary and also is an assistant head coach.

Defensive tackles coach Mike Tolleson will keep his salary of $190,186, and ends coach Oscar Giles will earn $148,488.

Ken Rucker, the running backs coach who was reassigned to the newly created post of director of high school relations and player development, will make $181,862. That's the same salary he earned a year ago.

Jimbo Fisher of Florida State likely is the highest-paid offensive coordinator in college football. Florida State raised his annual salary to $625,000 in mid-December, when the Seminoles announced that Fisher would succeed Bobby Bowden as head coach when Bowden decides to retire.

UCLA's new offensive coordinator, Norm Chow, will earn $1 million in 2008, but the bulk of his salary will come from the Tennessee Titans, the NFL team that fired him after the 2007 season.

A sampling of college football's top-paid offensive coordinators in 2007. Private schools such as Notre Dame and Miami are not required to publicly disclose coaching salaries.

Jimbo Fisher Florida St. $420,000

Gary Crowton LSU $400,000

Larry Fedora* Oklahoma St. $393,000

Greg Davis Texas $351,000

David Cutcliffe^ Tennessee $340,000

*now the head coach at Southern Mississippi

^now the head coach at Duke

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