New Colorado football coach Deion Sanders is poised to earn $29.5 million over five years, not including potential bonuses and incentives, according to a Monday report from the Mississippi Clarion Ledger. The contract is the largest financial package ever given to a CU football coach, athletic director Rick George told the Denver Post.
Sanders was introduced as Colorado’s new football coach on Dec. 4, but the terms of Sanders’s contract were not disclosed at the time as the details were still being finalized.
Sanders’s contract stipulates that he will earn $5.