Idiots Write About Sports

One little bit of good news for Cal fans this morning, courtesy of ESPN.com’s Ivan Maisel:

The bad news of Sunday at California will turn into good news Monday when the university announces that Golden Bear coach Jeff Tedford has agreed to a new five-year contract, a Pacific-10 Conference source said.
Tedford, who took over a 1-10 Cal team three years ago, led the Bears to a 10-1 season and a No. 4 ranking. Tedford had been considered the top candidate for the vacancy at the University of Washington, and his name had been mentioned at Notre Dame as well.
The new contract will guarantee Tedford $1.5 million per year, with additional incentives. This year, the university paid Tedford $800,000, and incentives met will push the final total to approximately $1.1 million.

True, the extensions college coaches sign usually aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on — if I had a nickel for every time a coach signed a contract extension only to wind up at another school a few years later when a better offer came along, then I would be making $1.5 million per year with additional incentives. Still, it’s nice to know that Tedford will almost certainly going to be stalking the sidelines at Memorial Stadium next year.