Monday, December 17, 2007

Rodriguez & Michigan

But the hiring of Rodriguez away from West Virginia will not be cheap. Michigan will pay West Virginia $4 million just to release him from his contract, the largest known buyout to hire a college football coach. Rodriguez is expected to make well over $2 million a season in salary, which would put him among the top dozen of the nation’s highest-paid coaches.

- NY Times (read full story here)

So much for rumors that Michigan was penny-pinching.

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