Leonard Hamilton, FSU Agree to 5-Year Contract Value $2.25M Every year

Florida Express has agreed to a five-year extension with males’s basketball coach Leonard Hamilton, the college announced Monday.

Per Andrea Adelson of ESPN, the deal is value $2.25 million per year and can preserve the 72-year-ragged below contract via the 2024-25 season.

Hamilton also has up to $2 million in bonuses annually in his contract that consist of $150,000 for winning the ACC long-established season and $200,000 for making the NCAA tournament.

Florida Express director of athletics David Coburn noted the college’s willingness to preserve him aboard indefinitely:

“Coach Hamilton has carried out loads for this basketball program and this university that it’s not easy to explicit in words. What he does along with his young males, every on and off the court docket, is actually much.  I do know every the President and I regard him as a college love, and he is correct now getting the national recognition he has deserved for see you later. He embodies the total qualities that accomplish a mountainous leader, and we’re proud and overjoyed to appreciate him as our coach as long as he desires.”

Hamilton is in his 19th season with the Seminoles and is this technique’s all-time winningest coach.

The fresh squad is ranked 11th within the most up-to-date Associated Press poll and is in first field within the ACC with a 10-3 conference file. 

Final season, Florida Express became ranked No. 4 after winning the ACC long-established-season title, however the NCAA tournament became canceled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Hamilton quiet has a formidable resume that involves one ACC tournament title with three trips to the Sweet 16 and one Elite Eight.

He has been named ACC Coach of the Year three occasions since taking on in 2002.

“While I am soft with all the issues we now appreciate accomplished, there is quiet room for enchancment, and we now appreciate so plan more to manufacture,” Hamilton mentioned.