Eric Musselman isn’t just the highest-paid coach in Wolf Pack athletics history. He’ll also be the highest-paid public employee in the state of Nevada and the highest-paid basketball coach in the Mountain West.
Musselman’s five-year deal, which Nevada announced Tuesday, is worth $1 million per season, according to his contract, which was released Wednesday. Musselman will earn $1 million in guaranteed money in 2017-18, which tops the Wolf Pack’s previous single-season record of $585,000, earned by former football coach Brian Polian last year.
Kayvan Khiabani, a reconstructive surgery specialist and profession at UNR’s school of medicine, was the highest-paid public employee in Nevada in 2016 at $987,638.