TULSA, Okla. — Two days after winning one of the college football season’s early marquee games, Bob Stoops was rewarded Monday with a contract extension that could keep him as the coach of top-ranked Oklahoma through 2018 and pay him $34.5 million over the next seven years.
Oklahoma’s board of regents voted to give Stoops a $75,000 bump in his annual salary and a handful of bonuses.
The deal calls for Stoops’ paydays to grow over the years, topping out at $5.15 million in salary and bonuses over the final three years. He was already one of the highest-paid coaches, making $30 million over the course of a previous seven-year deal approved in 2009.
“In my opinion, he does not have a peer in college coaching either in terms of his strategic abilities as a coach, but also in terms of his example as a role model,” university presidentDavid Boren said.
The extension made no changes to his salary for this year, when he is set to make $4.875 million, including an $800,000 bonus. He has a 131-31 record.
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