FGCU Scrambling to Find Funds to Keep Coach Andy Enfield

With the new found success for the FGCU Eagles will also come potential problems. Eagles men’s basketball coach Andy Enfield has become a very hot commodity. FGCU is a young university and has enjoyed some unprecedented success this season under Enfield’s guidance. The Eagles won the Atlantic Sun Conference title, reached the NCAA Tourney in just their second year of eligibility for the contest and now have re-written the NCAA record books.

Fort Myers NBC affiliate Channel 2 reports in an exclusive report this evening that the university is scrambling to re-work Enfield’s contract. NBC2 reports that the university is looking to double the current $300,000 annual salary for Enfield, who is currently in the second-year of a five-year deal.

The television station reports that the university does not currently have the money to make that happen and hopes that donations will come into the university in order to make that happen. Enfield has an interesting resume, including being married to a former model which graced the cover of Maxim magazine. He is a very successful entrepreneur, so I don’t think that a doubling of his salary will be enough to keep Enfield entrenched at FGCU unless he really enjoys the SW Florida area.

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