Vols' new strength coach nearly nation's highest-paid

The days of Tennessee football taking a financial rock to a gun fight with its strength-coach salary are gone.

Long, long gone.

New Tennessee strength coach Craig Fitzgerald — who left the top strength-coach position with the NFL’s Houston Texans to join Jeremy Pruitt in Knoxville — signed a three-year contract with a base salary of $625,000.

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