Barry Alvarez will be paid $600,000 next year in his role as University of Wisconsin athletic director, while his hand-picked successor as football coach, Bret Bielema, will earn $750,000 under contracts signed by the two men on Friday.
The UW released Alvarez’s and Bielema’s new five-year contracts on Friday night, a day after the deals were approved by the UW Board of Regents.