Data: State University System of Florida; Chart: Baidi Wang/Axios
FSU extended head football coach Mike Norvell's lucrative contract for a year a week after UF poached former Louisiana-Lafayette coach Billy Napier with a starting salary of $7.1 million, making him the highest-paid public employee in Florida.
Napier technically negotiated the contract with Florida's University Athletic Association Inc., a quasi-public nonprofit organization, the Miami Herald reports.
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