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Mack gets a bump to $5M and his boys get nothing
The Texas assistant football coaches won't receive raises until possibly September, but they still will be given bonuses for helping direct the Longhorns to the national championship game.
Texas athletic director DeLoss Dodds said the decision for the coaches not to receive bumps in their base salaries was based on the economic downturn affecting the university.
Typically, Dodds and coach Mack Brown meet to discuss raises for the assistants in January, following the end of the football season.
But the university is in a belt-tightening mode. A week ago, Gov. Rick Perry ordered the school to submit a plan on how to cut 5 percent of its budget funded by state money.
At this time last year, all assistants but coordinators Greg Davis and Will Muschamp — who are the highest paid on Brown's staff — received salary bumps of 3 to 4 percent. Muschamp's salary was nearly doubled when he was promoted to head-coach designate, while Davis received an increase of 9 percent.
However, all the assistants will be paid performance-based bonuses, as called for by their contracts.
Playing in a Bowl Championship Series game will garner an assistant a one-time payment of 9 percent of his salary. The assistants also received a bonus between $3,000 and $5,000 for winning the Big 12 Conference title.
In December, the UT System Board of Regents amended Brown's contract to allow for what had been a one-time $2 million retention bonus to be paid annually.
Brown, at $5 million, is the highest-paid football coach in the country.
http://www.statesman.com/sports/longhorns/no-salary-bumps-but-ut-football-assistants-still-195370.html
Mack gets a bump to $5M and his boys get nothing
The Texas assistant football coaches won't receive raises until possibly September, but they still will be given bonuses for helping direct the Longhorns to the national championship game.
Texas athletic director DeLoss Dodds said the decision for the coaches not to receive bumps in their base salaries was based on the economic downturn affecting the university.
Typically, Dodds and coach Mack Brown meet to discuss raises for the assistants in January, following the end of the football season.
But the university is in a belt-tightening mode. A week ago, Gov. Rick Perry ordered the school to submit a plan on how to cut 5 percent of its budget funded by state money.
At this time last year, all assistants but coordinators Greg Davis and Will Muschamp — who are the highest paid on Brown's staff — received salary bumps of 3 to 4 percent. Muschamp's salary was nearly doubled when he was promoted to head-coach designate, while Davis received an increase of 9 percent.
However, all the assistants will be paid performance-based bonuses, as called for by their contracts.
Playing in a Bowl Championship Series game will garner an assistant a one-time payment of 9 percent of his salary. The assistants also received a bonus between $3,000 and $5,000 for winning the Big 12 Conference title.
In December, the UT System Board of Regents amended Brown's contract to allow for what had been a one-time $2 million retention bonus to be paid annually.
Brown, at $5 million, is the highest-paid football coach in the country.
http://www.statesman.com/sports/longhorns/no-salary-bumps-but-ut-football-assistants-still-195370.html
