When It Comes To Paying Coaches, Nebraska Is Now In The Most Competitive Of Neighborhoods

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In hiring Scott Frost to resurrect Husker football and Hoiberg to revolutionize Husker hoops, Moos raised the profile of NU athletics.

 

Nebraska also joined a new, more competitive neighborhood as it related to paying its signature coaches.

 

Frost makes $5 million in base salary. Hoiberg’s seven-year, $25 million contract will pay him an average of $3.57 million if he fulfills the life of the contract. He’ll make $2.5 million in first-year base salary, with a $1 million bonus credited in the second year if he’s still the coach by July 2020.

 

So Nebraska’s total compensation for Frost and Hoiberg in 2019-20 will be $7.5 million. In 2020-21, it would be $9 million with Hoiberg’s stay bonus.

 

Green admitted the totals “make your heart flutter a little bit.” Those numbers would jump out on any budget, he said. But Green reiterates what he said in 2017, when frustration with Husker football flirted with apathy. Nebraska wants to be competitive.

 

“We were very clear about that,” Green said. “We will live within our means, but we will do what it takes to be successful.”