Contract details for Brown, Pep, and Drevno
Angelique just posted the contract details for Brown, Drevno and Pep. Pep's is kind of eye-opening. Details are:
Hamilton: 4-year deal, salary of $1m/yr, with a bump to $1.25M in year 4. Retention bonus of $450k in year 2, $250k in year 3. He also has the title of assistant head coach to go along with his passing game coordinator title.
Pep Hamilton contract pic.twitter.com/GQhpAEzuD1
— angelique (@chengelis) January 24, 2017
Drevno: 5-year deal, salary of $1m/yr each year, signing bonus of $150k this year.
Drevno contract pic.twitter.com/kHBjbIhLTq
— angelique (@chengelis) January 24, 2017
Brown: 5-year deal, salary of $1m/yr the first four years, bump to $1.4M in year 5. Retention bonuses of $300k the first two years, $400k the next two years, and nothing in the last year.
Don Brown contract pic.twitter.com/tc4UmiGkZI
— angelique (@chengelis) January 24, 2017
The main takeaway from all of this is that Hamilton is now the highest paid offensive assistant on staff, and Michigan will be paying $2M+/year for their co-OCs. Which is kind of surprising.
January 24th, 2017 at 3:44 PM ^
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January 24th, 2017 at 3:46 PM ^
January 24th, 2017 at 3:50 PM ^
He said highest paid offensive assistant.
January 24th, 2017 at 3:51 PM ^
Pep is the highest paid assistant on the offensive side.
January 24th, 2017 at 4:51 PM ^
When considering who is the highest paid, you can only think of Pep.
January 24th, 2017 at 4:12 PM ^
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January 24th, 2017 at 3:48 PM ^
I think the reason for Pep being higher is the title of Assistant Head Coach. Brown and Drevno are listed as Coordinatiors and Assistant Coaches.
January 24th, 2017 at 3:53 PM ^
I'm not sure how I'd feel about it if I were Drevno though. Michigan brought in a guy who is both above and below him in title, and then paid him more. Like think about how you'd feel if that happened in your workplace?
January 24th, 2017 at 3:56 PM ^
He hasn't performed worth a shit so he should really feel happy he still has a job IMO.
The OL has been hot garbage for a good number of years including the last two.
January 24th, 2017 at 4:02 PM ^
Yeah that whole arrangement seems to be an OC in waiting setup designed to put the pressure on Drevno to perform or leave of his own volition. The contract in general is setup to encourage him to leave for a head coaching job.
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January 24th, 2017 at 8:11 PM ^
on Drevno sucking or anything.
but I will say that if you are going to be one the highest paid OCs in the country (& certainly the highest paid O-line coach) you have to either:
1. Coach up a bunch of middling 3* into a better-than-average/good unit, regarless of who initially recruited/coached them.
OR
Recuit yourself a pile of 4 AND 5* lineman and make them an elite unit.
OR
a bit of both.
THAT is what Michigan is paying top dollar for.
If Drevno can't handle both jobs, get someone (Frey, etc) in that can recruit/fix this line at least.
January 24th, 2017 at 4:09 PM ^
Assistant Head Coach trumps Assistant Coach. It's all how it was negotiated. Drevno may not like it, but it is Jim's ship. If Jim felt giving Pep the title and more money was best for the team, then it is his decision to make. Working in college athletics, I see this all the time. This seems like SOP in most places when it comes to bringing in a top coach to the staff.
January 24th, 2017 at 4:23 PM ^
Maybe its different in college athletics, but it just strikes me as a strange relationship.
Like if you were the manager of a department, and your boss said we're going to hire a new guy to be your assistant manager, but he's also going to be my assistant director and we're going to pay him more than you, that would certainly make me do a WTF double take and not be super stoked about my own future.
January 24th, 2017 at 5:14 PM ^
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January 25th, 2017 at 12:18 AM ^
And all these guys make a lot more than their "boss", Warde or his boss. It's an abnormal world.
January 24th, 2017 at 5:42 PM ^
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Plus Drevno is the only one with no retention bonuses.
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Michigan, to my knowledge, will be the first team to have 3 assistants make at least $1 million
— Nick Baumgardner (@nickbaumgardner) January 24, 2017
January 24th, 2017 at 3:56 PM ^
In 2018, the three are poised to make $3.75M combined. Fire that money cannon at will.
January 24th, 2017 at 4:19 PM ^
Leaders and best
January 24th, 2017 at 3:54 PM ^
retention bonus is insane!
January 24th, 2017 at 3:55 PM ^
But never to stay. I'll try not to take it personally.
January 24th, 2017 at 4:05 PM ^
You know, I have worked at places in my life where they considered what passed for a raise as my money to stay, but yeah, a $450,000 rentention bonus? Nice.
As someone said already, please do continue to fire the money cannon at will.
January 24th, 2017 at 5:30 PM ^
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January 24th, 2017 at 4:10 PM ^
The way they structured it looks like they only expect him to be here 2 years. Year 3 would be a renogotiating year if they planned on retaining him but the drop in bonus probably means they had a conversation about other opportunities.
January 24th, 2017 at 3:54 PM ^
LSU is paying $3.3 / year for 2 coordinators. We are paying about the same for 3 coordinators. This seems to be where the market is for the best OCs in 2017.
January 24th, 2017 at 4:13 PM ^
Missed the news last week that Canada was going to be making $1.5M/year. Kiffin made $1.4M last season, but no one else is really in that ballpark. USA Today's database had 12 coaches making north of $1M/year last season and the only two offensive coaches making that much (Kiffin and Cam Cameron) are both gone.
Not sure who else is in the $1M offensive assistant pool next season, but Michigan has two of the three I've heard about.
January 24th, 2017 at 4:19 PM ^
I knew Canada's economy was smaller than ours but dang, that's hardly enough to afford some TimBits and a six of Labatts.
January 24th, 2017 at 4:25 PM ^
TimBits and a 6er of Labatts: the breakfast of champions.
January 24th, 2017 at 3:55 PM ^
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January 24th, 2017 at 4:04 PM ^
Good. The adages "You get what you pay for" and "You gotta spend money to make it" both seem to apply here
I do wonder though - every time I see contracts like this on the rise - how long it will be before it all reaches some tipping point with regards to paying players. I know you get a free college education, but it's hard to say an assistant gets paid $1MM/year while Peppers only gets 'paid' $50M/year (or something close to that). Those assistants are valuable, but not 10-20 times as valuable as the stars on the field
January 24th, 2017 at 4:32 PM ^
I believe Peppers only got "paid" about $50K a year in tuition and living expenses, unless we have some very wealthy bagmen that I don't know about. Unless you're using a single M to refer to "thousand".
January 24th, 2017 at 5:03 PM ^
Yeah, I don't know if that's a financial world thing or not but I'm used to thousands being M and millions being MM
January 24th, 2017 at 6:58 PM ^
January 27th, 2017 at 9:44 AM ^
I think it comes from the prefix for thousand being "mil-" in just about any other language, like in the word "millenium." But I think it's much clearer if thousand is "K" and million is "M."
January 25th, 2017 at 9:14 AM ^
People don't know what the hell I'm talking about either.
January 24th, 2017 at 4:02 PM ^
I believe Wheatley was making less than $500k. Don't blame him for leaving as the chance of moving up diminished with the hiring of Pep.
January 24th, 2017 at 4:17 PM ^
USA Today had him at $365k last season. Good for #214 in the country. Which isn't bad for a running backs coach.
January 24th, 2017 at 4:06 PM ^
Think Drevno is going to be gone after next season.
January 24th, 2017 at 4:20 PM ^
If he's looking for a HC job, then all the more reason to bring Frey onto the staff.