On the first week of athletic director Dave Heeke‘s employment at Arizona, he was greeted with the difference between the MAC and the Pac-12: Oregon announced it will pay women’s basketball coach Kelly Graves a guaranteed $4 million over the next six years. That’s about $700,000 per season.
Arizona pays women’s basketball coach Adia Barnes $235,000 per season, a five-year deal worth about $1.7 million.
Keeping up with the Joneses is always in flux.
As Arizona State continues to work on a $250 million redo of Sun Devil Stadium, athletic director Ray Anderson has taken care to build a bigger-better scoreboard than the one at Arizona Stadium.
When the Sun Devils open in September, their new video board will be the fourth-largest in college football and 2 feet bigger than the one Greg Byrne had installed in Tucson four years ago. It won’t be long until a Pac-12 team builds one bigger than ASU’s.
