Taylor took a sizable pay cut to come to Sacramento State, where his base annual pay is $242,000. That’s about $1.7 million through the duration of his seven-year contract. Taylor’s 2018 base salary at Utah was $525,000, plus a bonus of $87,500, a total about 2½ times his annual take at Sacramento State, where he is the highest-paid coach.
“It’s never been about the money for me,” says Taylor, who will earn a bonus if the Hornets win the conference title. “It’s about believing in where I am and being challenged. My goal when I left Folsom High School was to one day be a head coach, and this is a great opportunity. They’re paying me well. This is where I want to be.”
There is no doubting Taylor’s fondness for his alma mater, as you can tell from his remarks in an interview we did last season before Cal played Sac State.
“There’s not a place that’s more special to be than Berkeley. I love the place. It’s a big part of my life,” Taylor says in the video at the top of this story. “It kind of shaped the person I am in terms of being challenged academically and athletically.
“Yeah, I would have liked to have won a Rose Bowl — that was really my only goal in going there. Obviously, we did not do that, but still great memories and a very special place to me.”
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