USA released its annual coaching salary database earlier this week, revealing that Rick Pitino was the highest third highest-paid coach in the NCAA tournament based on school pay, and that he also broke his own record for outside income.
Here’s the crux of the section on Pitino’s outside income:
Adidas and the University of Louisville athletics program — especially men’s basketball coach Rick Pitino — mean a lot to each other.
The shoe and apparel manufacturer paid Pitino $2.25 million of the more than $2.7 million he received in athletically related income that did not come from the university or affiliated organizations during the 2015 calendar year, according to the most recent version of a disclosure document that he and other Division I college sports staffers until recently had to file with their schools under NCAA rules.