The once ubiquitous USA Today doesn’t steal too many headlines in 2024, but the annual college football coaches’ salary database always stirs the pot. It’s hitting at the wrong time for Mark Stoops. Days after the Wildcats fell to Vanderbilt, their third SEC home loss of the season, USA Today revealed that Mark Stoops is the ninth-highest-paid coach in college football. This year he is set to make $9,013,600, a smidge over the $9 million Lane Kiffin earns in the No. 10 spot. Stoops is the longest-tenured coach in the SEC, the richest league in the sport. Stoops is still behind Brian Kelly (LSU…