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Assistant coaches are turning into stars

By Len Pasquarelli
ESPN.com

Friday, January 31, 2003

Having decided Thursday that working toward a Super Bowl repeat in 2003 was preferable to working in a San Francisco 49ers organization that some now view as disjointed, Tampa Bay Bucs defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin raised the salary bar for NFL assistant coaches. Granted, it could be a long time before anyone comes close to the three-year, $5.1 million contract Kiffin got from the Bucs less than an hour before he was to board a flight for a weekend interview with 49ers general manager Terr ...

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