UF assistant coaching salaries set
Florida has released the remaining contracts of its assistant coaches for the 2012-13 season.
John Pelphrey’s base salary will remain at $180,000, while assistant coach Matt McCall received a $40,000 raise to $140,000. New assistant coach Rashon Burno’s salary is at $120,000.
All three coaches will receive an additional $10,000 apparel bonus from Nike.
It’s a well-deserved raise for McCall, who has hustled on the recruiting circuit since being hired from FAU in April of 2011. McCall helped lay the groundwork to land a pair of 2012 signees (guard Dillon Graham and swingman DeVon Walker) and 2013 star point guard commit Kasey Hill.
Pelphrey is in the second year of a three-year buyout from his previous head coaching job at Arkansas. Under terms of the buyout, Pelphrey will make $600,000 — $180,000 from Florida and $420,000 from Arkansas.
Kevin Brockway gave up on his dream of becoming a lefty starting pitcher for the New York Mets when he walked four straight batters, then hit one in a middle school game in Suffern, N.Y. Since graduating college in 1993, he’s worked as a sports writer at daily newspapers throughout the state of Florida, beginning with the Key West Citizen. He then moved on to the Northwest Florida Daily News and Naples Daily News before becoming the men’s basketball writer for The Gainesville Sun in 2003. Brockway has won multiple state and national writing awards during his 16-year career. Favorite pastimes include karaoke and watching baseball. Favorite college hoops team growing up was St. John’s.
I guess the low pay for Pelphrey is because Arkansas makes up the difference. I hope and assume Pelphrey gets a very substantial raise when his Arkansas contract runs out although I think it very likely he will be a head coach in the near future. If not, all the better for UF and hopefully he can be happy here.
by jjGator
Yo Kevin!
Thanks for all the great work.
One question: when we will hear news on how the scholly situation is going to work out? It seems we will be at 14 with 2 players inleigible til the following season.
by Todd in O-town
Will probably get sorted out in early, mid-July. Will keep you posted if I hear definitively how it’s going to work out.
by Kevin Brockway