Most basketball coaches have incentives built into their contracts for making the NCAA Tournament as well as getting their team up to a specific academic standard. Well, North Carolina's Roy Williams hit all the benchmarks by winning a national title and getting his team to a strong Academic Progress Rate of 985.
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Roy Williams picks up $75,000 bonus as UNC men's basketball team's new multi-year APR is 985 (he gets that amount for APR 975+)
— Steve Berkowitz (@ByBerkowitz) May 10, 2017
With academic bonus, Roy Williams will receive $1 million in bonuses this year. https://t.co/WSe3Eix6yQ
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) May 10, 2017
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Williams had received a total of $925,000 for winning the national title and his base salary for this season was $2.1 million. So it looks like he will end up earning over $3 million for the season, before taxes of course.
[h/t The Spun]
