University of Miami football fans should be celebrating today that football coach Mark Richt earned a contract extension that, if all works out as hoped, will take him through the 2023 season.
Richt, 58, who earned his degree from Miami and was a backup quarterback there from 1978 through 82, has shouted far and wide in his calming, confident manner that this Hurricanes gig he accepted in December 2015 has been more fulfilling and gratifying than even he had imagined.
Richt's orginal contract, signed in December of 2015, is believed to have been for six years, paying him more than $4 million annually.