The same day Oklahoma’s regents gave their president authority to explore future conference affiliation options, the head football coach who will guide the Sooners regardless of what league they’re in was given a new contract by the OU board as well.
It was announced at the Board of Regents meeting Monday that Bob Stoops was on the receiving end of both a raise and a contract extension that will keep him in Norman through 2018; his last deal, signed in 2009, was good through the 2016 season.
The new contract will pay Stoops $34.5 million over the next seven years. The old agreement called for $30 million to be paid over its seven-year length.
In the final three years of the new contract, Stoops’s average annual compensation will be $5.15 million. For comparison’s sake, Texas head coach Mack Brown was the highest-paid coach in 2010 at $5.16 million.
