Over at espn, SEC blogger Chris Low reports that Florida athletic director has hammered his piggy bank to pay football coach Urban “I’m Never Going to Notre Dame” Meyer $24 million over the next six years in a contract that was finalized today.
Let’s see. UK basketball coach John Calipari will rake in $31 million over the next eight years in Lexington.
Guess we can say that football means as much to Florida as basketball does to Kentucky.
Excerpt:
A new six-year, $24 million contract for Meyer was finalized Monday, taking his total financial package to $4 million per year and making him the SEC’s highest-paid coach in 2009.
It makes him the third-highest-paid coach in the country behind Pete Carroll’s repored $4.4 million salary at USC and Charlie Weis’ $4.2 million at Notre Dame.
Meyer’s new deal will run through the 2014 season, and there are also incentives involved that could raise his pay even higher.
John Clay is a sports columnist for the Lexington Herald-Leader. A native of Central Kentucky and graduate of UK, he covered UK football for 13 seasons before being promoted to columnist in 2000. Born in Paris, he graduated from George Rogers Clark High School in Winchester in 1977. He lives in Lexington with his wife and two sons. You can e-mail him at johnclay.bloginky.com.
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