The Palm Beach Post

O’Sullivan is highest-paid NCAA baseball coach

- Miami Herald

It looks like Kevin O’Sullivan isn’t leaving Gainesvill­e any time soon.

The University of Florida baseball coach, heading into his 10th season at UF, signed a 10-year contrac t extension over the summer that keeps him with the Gators until at least 2025 and makes him the highest-paid college baseball coach in the country, the Miami Herald has confirmed.

The det ails of the contract: $1.25 million per year along with a $500,000 signing bonus. The contract also has a buyout clause worth $ 5 00,0 00 f o r e a c h ye a r remaining on the deal.

Kendall Rogers of D1Baseball was the first to report the contract extension.

O’Sullivan, a graduate of Jupiter High, has revolution­ized the Gators baseball program since he took over for Pat McMahon in 2008. Florida has won five total SEC titles (three-regular season championsh­ips, two tournament championsh­ips) and reached the NCAA tournament in all nine years under O’Sullivan, the only school to do so during that time.

T h e G a t o r s h a v e a l s o reached the College World Series five times, finishing as the runner-up in 2011. He has a UF-best .677 win- ning percentage since taking over at UF (396-189) with just one losing season (2013; 29-30 record).

His 396 wins are the thirdmost in Florida history, trailing Joe Arnold (434) and Dave Fuller (557).

Sixty-nine of O’Sullivan’s p l a y e r s a t F l o r i d a h a v e gone on to be selected in the Major League Baseball Draft, including eight in the 2016 draft this past June.

Florida i s coming off a 52-16 season in which it set a school record for regular-season wins before being bounced from the College World Series with losses to eventual champion Coastal Carolina and Texas Tech.

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