This news should come as no surprise really, but Barry Alvarez has received a new contract and a pay raise to stay on as Athletics Director at Wisconsin according to Andy Baggot of the Wisconsin State Journal.
Alvarez's new deal would keep him in charge of UW's athletic department through 2018, if he stays on that long. Let's be honest, the guy would be well into his 70's at that point and seeing how this new era of college athletics takes it toll on the younger, is it wise to have a man in his 70's at the helm?
Don't expect him to step down unless it strikes his mood though and he hasn't thought about retirement at all at this point;
“I’ll keep going as long as I keep enjoying it and as long as they want me here,” he is quoted as saying in the WSJ piece.
Either way, Alvarez will be one of the highest paid AD's in the country, keeping his seven figure salary, which according to Baggot's piece will pay him just over $1 million a year. To put that in perspective he is just one of three Big Ten AD's and nine throughout the nation that will make that kind of money.
His tenure as AD is perhaps one of the most overlooked aspects of what he's done at UW and the fact that nearly every single sport is competitive within the Big Ten and nationally is a testament to the quality and care Alvarez takes when making hires for the programs he's in charge of.
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