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.
