Participating in one of the six College Football Playoff Bowl Games: $150,000 Participating in the CFB playoff semi-final: $200,000 Making the College Football National Championship: $300,000 Being named Conference Coach of the Year by the Big Ten Coaches or Media: $100,000 Being named National Coach of the Year by nationally recognized organization from a listed agreed upon by the Coach and AD: $100,000 A win or tie for the Big Ten Championship: $100,000 Winning the Big Ten Championship: $150,000 I'll also note that starting January 1st of 2021, the University gave an additional $200,000 is added to that assistant coaches salary pool in 2021. November 5th, 2019 - December 31st, 2020: $4,600,000, but was actually $4,281,680 after the pandemic reductionįleck's 2020 salary puts him as the 23rd highest paid in college football, the 9th highest in the Big Ten going forward and that puts him fifth in the West behind Iowa, Illinois, Purdue, Nebraska and Northwestern. Here's a look at the coaching contracts for Minnesota's current 11 on field coaches: Coaches Brian Callahan, Chad Wilt and Joe Harasymiak received two-year contracts through the 2022 season. was promoted to Director of Football Administration after serving as a Player Development Graduate Assistant since 2018.įor the 2021 season, Minnesota will have seven assistants in the final year of their current contracts. Mike Sanford, Kenni Burns, Matt Simon, Clay Patterson, Joe Rossi, Paul Haynes and Rob Wenger have deals that end January 31st of 2022. Emily Litwin was promoted to Chief Administrative Officer/Parent Liaison, Bradley Parker Jr. It's also worth noting that Minnesota has added additional paid off-the-field staff with Director of Football Recruiting Communications in Steven Ruzic, Director of On-Campus Recruiting in Nick Murphy, Senior Defensive Analyst Danny Collins and Director of Internal Football Operations in Austin Starnes. When PJ Fleck signed his contract extension back in November of 2019, he fought for an additional million dollar for his assistant's for 2020 and he'll also get an additional $200,0 as well. It's a start, but it still needs to improve going forward.Īll of the details of the contracts were released by the University of Minnesota as public records with information on specific bonuses and buyouts. The cost of doing business is going up, and Minnesota's still not in the top half of the Big Ten West standings even with these increases. Paul Chryst and his Wisconsin staff last season made $8.123 million, and Scott Frost and the Nebraska staff totaled $9.038 million in 2020. If folks want to look at Minnesota compared to Iowa and Wisconsin's football staff's via salary with 2020 numbers considered, Minnesota is still behind even with their 2021 numbers.īetween Kirk Ferentz and his assistants at Iowa last season, they earned $9.424 million. Totaling $7.9 million in salary between Fleck and his on-field staff. That assistant's salary pool ranked dead last of the 12 Big Ten teams that reported in 2019, per USA Today Sports. In 2020, Fleck made $4.281 million (8th among Big Ten head coaches) with the assistant salary pool of $3,619,926 (ranking fifth in the Big Ten West behind Wisconsin, Iowa, Northwestern and Nebraska). That $3.619 million total for the Gopher Football assistants may seem like a lot of money (it is), but in comparison to others in the Big Ten, Minnesota's still behind. In 2019, Fleck made $3.1 million and his assistants salary pool added up to $3,055,000. I'd also mention that Fleck's salary reduction was the fourth-highest pandemic reduction for a head coach across D1 college football, behind only Florida State, Utah and Wisconsin, and the assistant pay reduction was also the fourth-highest across all of division one college football. With PJ Fleck taking a $318,320 salary reduction and his assistant coaches in total taking a $230,000 reduction in 2020 to help Minnesota's athletic department, the Gophers Football staff didn't surpassed that $8 million mark as was projected. With PJ Fleck retaining all of his 10 on-field assistant coaches from the 2020 Minnesota Gophers football season, Minnesota paid their football coaches $7.9 million in combined salary. Minnesota finalized the new contracts for their assistant coaches in the last few weeks and with their contract details released, the Gophers are projected to potentially surpass the $8 million salary mark for the first-time in program history.
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