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He’s been at Florida since early December but the details of Joker Phillips’ contract weren’t released until today. According to ESPN.com’s Gator Nation, Phillips will make $265,000 per year over the next two seasons in Gainesville coaching the receivers and coordinating the recruiting efforts. It’s a rather low number for his position on the staff, but keep in mind he is cashing checks from UK for the next two years on top of that.
Phillips will receive $1.7 million from UK while coaching at Florida next season, plus another $850,000 in 2014. Add that all up and it’s somewhere around, let’s see, we’ll call it a lot of money. Like, over $3 million.
And how weird is that picture?
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March 1st, 2013 at 8:47 pm
I’d pay twice that to not have him here.
March 1st, 2013 at 8:54 pm
We’ll call it “theft by deception”?
March 1st, 2013 at 8:54 pm
Nice guy, tried hard, well worth the cost of getting a new coach @ UK!!!
March 1st, 2013 at 8:54 pm
Thanks Joker the Choker for running our football program into the ground! That photo SUCKS!! Now we have a REAL COACH! Can’t wait for football! GO CATS!!
March 1st, 2013 at 9:00 pm
He’s not a good coach, UK football will be a force to be reckoned with, glad we have moved on.
March 1st, 2013 at 9:03 pm
Is it any coicidence that Florida hires Joker and then gets their butts handed to them by Louisville. I think not.
March 1st, 2013 at 9:11 pm
Words cannot express how much I LOVE that picture.
March 1st, 2013 at 9:12 pm
Barnhart has been great and throwing away UK money on terrible coaching decisions.
March 1st, 2013 at 9:28 pm
8) please feel free to elaborate? I’m pretty sure he’s done more positive than negative for UK
March 1st, 2013 at 9:29 pm
I didn’t win but I love kentucky, you will never love ky as much as me period
March 1st, 2013 at 9:30 pm
Congrats joker. Take it easy and love being at a winner. Enjoy your 2nd ranked recruiting class!!!!
March 1st, 2013 at 9:30 pm
There was no dollar figure amount that wasn’t worth paying to get rid of Joker. Whatever the amount, is a small price to pay & the price we pay for getting rid of a problem, and as in coaching, business or life; taking care of & fixing problems can be expensive. If anything, we got off cheap, especially if it led us to landing Stoops. The present coaching staff at Florida won’t be round 2 years from now, so Joker is irrelevant.
March 1st, 2013 at 9:31 pm
#8 lives in a trailer
March 1st, 2013 at 9:34 pm
I got 3 mil over the next to years, ukblue if your so smart and know everything please tell me what you will be making in the next 2 years
March 1st, 2013 at 9:35 pm
I got 3 mil over the next 2 years, ukblue if your so smart and know everything please tell me what you will be making in the next 2 years
March 1st, 2013 at 9:42 pm
He essentially stole from the UK athletic department during his so called coaching career!
March 1st, 2013 at 9:47 pm
#15 that’s pretty good but you better hold onto it because once the gaytors find out you don’t know anything about coaching they will Fire your ass! Than what you got? IN STOOPS WE TRUST!! GO CATS!!
March 1st, 2013 at 9:54 pm
I’ll admit, I know NOTHING ABOUT FOOTBALL!!! I Still don’t understand the finer points of pass interference. Can I get this kind of money for failing miserably? I have no problem with running bubble screens for 3+ years and acting like I care. I like money…
March 1st, 2013 at 9:55 pm
Eric the idiot, Lets say I get fired and used my degree to get a regular job. They pay me 50,000 a year for 8 years. So in 10 years I have made? 3.4 mil. So that’s more than your lifetime.
March 1st, 2013 at 10:08 pm
MF’er getting paid…damn
March 1st, 2013 at 10:13 pm
8) Everyone has bad coaching hires that don’t work out for whatever reason. The Filthy Cards have had their Ron Coopers and were Kragthorped a few years back. Joker has a good rep. They all did. Mitch gave us Joker and Billy…but he also gave us Cal and Stoops. Lets hope Stoops doesn’t turn into an OOPS and I’ll be right back here telling you all…..once again….that we should have hired Petrino when we had the chance….Charlie Strong won’t be at UL for long and Jurich knows it. Its a good bet Petrino winds up back with the filthy Cards. Hes a great coach that could have been had for a very right price. But I hope for the best with OOPS…Pardon me, Stoops. At least its interesting again.
March 1st, 2013 at 10:17 pm
#19 yea keep telling yourself that, see what it get you! Not to many jobs out there for an out of work football coach! GO CATS!!
March 1st, 2013 at 10:25 pm
why do universities allow themselves to be locked in to a good financial screwing whenever they decide to get rid of one of these coaches? stupid
March 1st, 2013 at 10:25 pm
Drew, he won’t make his Florida salary on top of the UK payoff. He will make the salary from Florida and the 1.445 mil from UK next year (the 1.7 mil less the 265k paid by Florida). That is the way the contract is written for the payoff.
March 1st, 2013 at 11:09 pm
Joker deserves every last penny he gets. I hope he’s laughing all the way to the bank. The “joker took down the program” mentality just cracks me the hell up. About 65 years of bad football since bear Bryant left, 5 good years since Bryant left, and a football program with a below .500 record for its history and its ALL joker’s fault? I’ve heard it all…Claiborne, curry, mumme, Morris, brooks, and Phillips. And joker was the only one to leave with a losing record? Oh yeah, he wasn’t. Good luck stoops, hope you make it and do what no other UK coach has done since 1953. And if u don’t, you’ll have a bunch of a$$holes that never even played football tearing u a new one on a message board.
March 2nd, 2013 at 2:02 am
He looks just as lost wearing Gator garb on the sideline as he did as UK. Now, that’s consistency for you.
March 2nd, 2013 at 2:31 am
Just be happy with the excitement. There’s going to be A LOT to speculate over the next few months, and for sure over Stoops first season. I will be shocked if we win more than 4, and hope we win more than 2 next season. Stoops has never been D1 head coach, but does have a great pedigree, resume, and personal drive which makes me optimistic that he can succeed here. He’s got Ohio connections and shocking the hell out of me that recruits are even saying “neck and neck” or “slightly more appealing than” Alabama, Ohio State, and all the other programs that would never dream of having to compete with us in the past. We just have to stay positive through the transition because I think it’s gonna be tough, and at least three seasons before we start seeing real results. But as fans I think BBN has started in the right direction and that’s reserving almost 30,000 tickets to the spring game. We gotta show up, and support even though we won’t go immediately to the top like with Cal. Good recruits won’t invest in this dream if we don’t. I just like that Stoops honestly believes we can be a great program, I hope the fan base and university allows him PLENTY of time to grow into his position as head coach. And to help him, the BBN must be in full support.
March 2nd, 2013 at 3:21 am
UK did what they had to do…just like with BCG. The real joke(r) is on Florida. I can’t wait to see our secondary victimize their receivers.
March 2nd, 2013 at 4:09 am
He is at best a security guard at a strip club. I cannot believe he still gets to collect money from us. Ridiculous.
March 2nd, 2013 at 4:19 am
Eric I’m making 275,000 at Florida, I’m not unemployed, dear Kevin c. You must be the dumbest person on earth, Florida 49 ky 10. It’s to easy
March 2nd, 2013 at 7:35 am
Congrats to Joker – wish him well — some people aren’t ‘head coach’ material but worth a great deal in a supporting role (asst. coach, recruiting) — he’s in a position that he’s made for.
March 2nd, 2013 at 9:20 am
Joker and His Golden “Big Blue” Parachute?
March 2nd, 2013 at 10:05 am
Hopefully he will not be able to do for them what he was not able to do for us.
March 2nd, 2013 at 10:15 am
1.7 million plus 850 thousand………over 3 million……………………….not
March 2nd, 2013 at 10:19 am
Keep trying Big Blew…maybe one of these years, you’ll be able to beat the Gators – haha!
And don’t you know Choker will be more than happy to coach those Florida speedsters to run roughshod over your pathetic D…how ironic is that gonna be??!!
March 2nd, 2013 at 10:59 am
Living large!!!
March 2nd, 2013 at 11:39 am
I LOOOOOVE that picture. Glad he isn’t wearing UK stuff.
March 2nd, 2013 at 12:16 pm
His salary was available months ago. Old news!