University of Cincinnati head football coach Luke Fickell will earn more than three times as much as university president Neville Pinto over the next five years.
The UC Board of Trustees approved the two contracts at a Tuesday meeting. Pinto will earn about $3.3 million and Fickell will earn about $11 million through 2021. Fickell's contract extends through 2022 and he will make $2.4 million that year.
“This disparity in pay represents upside down priorities,” said John McNay, president of Ohio Conference of the American Association of University Professors. “We’re supposed to be institutions of education and to be throwing so much money at athletics is just irresponsible.