Pete Prisco of CBSSports.com reports that Bucs defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin will take a 66 percent cut in salary to join his son Lane at the University of Tennessee.

Pete Prisco of CBSSports.com writes that Bucs defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin joining his son Lane Kiffin as the defensive coordinator at the University of Tennessee is a “done deal.”

If what Prisco reports is accurate, Kiffin is taking a significant cut in pay to join his son. Significant as in a 66 percent cut in salary.

It looks like a done deal that Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin is leaving to join his son’s staff at the University of Tennessee.

He must really love his son.

Here’s why: Kiffin will probably make $500,000 or so at Tennessee and he makes $1.5 million with the Bucs.

That’s $1 million a year in love. Wow.

This is the first time Joe saw any figures floated as to how much the elder Kiffin would make as the Volunteers defensive coordinator. What Prisco doesn’t report, and Joe isn’t aware of, is what Kiffin could pull in on side deals such as endorsement money, cash from running football camps, a possible TV show and all sorts of other little things that could significantly add to his earnings.