COLUMBIA, MO. • The University of Missouri System Board of Curators approved a seven-year contract for new Missouri athletics director Jim Sterk on Tuesday, interim chancellor Hank Foley announced at University Hall on the Mizzou campus.
Sterk will be formally introduced at a press conference Thursday at 11 a.m. at the Columns Club at Memorial Stadium.
Sterk, 60, who spent the last six years as AD at San Diego State University, will make a guaranteed salary of $700,000. His annual base salary will be $500,000 and he'll also make $200,000 in non-salary monthly increments. He can earn up to $150,000 a year for various incentives.