COLUMBUS, Ohio — Three months and one day from the date Urban Meyer made his case for being college football’s best head coach, Ohio State opted to pay him like it.
The school announced on Monday an extension for the head coach of the reigning national champion Buckeyes that will essentially make Meyer college football’s second-highest-paid head coach. Fox Sports’ Bruce Feldman has further details:
USA Today indicates that with an average annual salary of $6.5 million over the course of the next six seasons, Meyer will trail only Alabama’s Nick Saban ($6.9 million) in base salary.
It’d be hard to make a convincing argument that Meyer isn’t worth the money—a $1.6 million raise from his former base salary—after amassing a combined 38-3 record in his first three seasons at Ohio State, including last season’s run to the first ever College Football Playoff National Championship.
But while the three-time national champion head coach’s raise appeared to be a mere formality, the details are telling as they relate to his future with the Buckeyes.
For one, it’s worth noting Meyer’s new contract runs through 2020, a three-year extension from his original Ohio State deal that was set to expire at the end of the 2017 campaign.
For a coach who came to Columbus with questions pertaining to his longevity after an early retirement at Florida in 2011, Meyer seems to have put any such concerns in the past with his commitment to the Buckeyes for the next…
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