NSU rewards coach with 2-year extension

NORFOLK, Virginia  - Norfolk State's first MEAC title earned Pete Adrian two more years as head coach of the Spartans.

The Spartans agreed to a two-year contract extension with Adrian on Thursday, keeping the head coach in place through the 2015 season.

Adrian will continue working on a $155,000 base salary with performance bonuses, terms he agreed to when his contact was extended last year, but he received an additional two years in the new deal.



"Seven victories a year, the most ever for a five-year period, toughest schedule year-in and year-out, grades. It kind of adds up," Adrian said of the combination of factors that went into the extension.

Adrian took over a down-in-the-dumps Norfolk State program in 2005 and won the school's first MEAC title last season, taking the team from catastrophe to consistent.

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