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Florida Gulf Coast looking for donations to help up coach’s salary: report

Cinderella’s been to the ball. And she can’t go back to tattered rags now.

Florida Gulf Coast has become the most popular team in the nation, becoming the first No. 15 seed in NCAA tournament to reach the Sweet 16, but now the university is concerned that in order to keep popular coach Andy Enfield, it will have to pay.

NBC 2 is reporting that the university want to restructure Enfield’s original five-year deal and make the 43-year-old the highest paid coach in the Atlantic Sun Conference, nearly doubling his salary to $300,000 per season.

Since the small school can’t afford it, the school is hoping for donations to help keep Enfield in Fort Myers.

Enfield, the NCAA’s all-time leader in career free-throw percentage, led the Eagles to a 25-10 record in his second season, having taken over a program that had gone 18-41 over the previous two seasons. Prior to Florida Gulf Coast, Enfield worked as an assistant coach with the Milwaukee Bucks, Boston Celtics and Florida State.