Florida pays Urban Meyer in Calipari bucks

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.

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