Jones could be
highest paid
coach in WACThe UH Board of Regents
meets today and is scheduled
to review Jones' contract
June Jones becomes the highest paid football coach in the Western Athletic Conference this week if the University of Hawaii's Board of Regents approves his new contract tomorrow.
The regents' personnel and legal affairs committee is scheduled to review the contract today and make a recommendation for a vote by the entire board tomorrow.
UH president Evan Dobelle estimated Jones' market value at somewhere between $700,000 and $1 million per year on Tuesday. Jones currently makes $400,000 a year, including incentives. Fresno State's Pat Hill earns $500,000 per year if all incentives are met.
Jones would also pass Dobelle as the highest paid Hawaii state employee.
Today's regents' sessions also include a proposal for a tiered ticket price range for men's basketball, men's volleyball and baseball similar to what already exists for football and women's volleyball.
The meetings today are closed to the public.
"There will be no information (today)," UH spokeswoman Carolyn Tanaka said.
Information has been scarce in general throughout the negotiations between Jones' agent, Leigh Steinberg, and UH athletic director Herman Frazier and his predecessor Hugh Yoshida. The contract talks have been on and off and on again since the end of the 2001 season, when Steinberg tried to renegotiate the current contract to $1 million per year.
Steinberg did tell the Star-Bulletin last month that the contract would likely be for five years.
