Contract details for Brown, Pep, and Drevno

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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.

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bluesalt

January 24th, 2017 at 3:46 PM ^

He had the title of Assistant Coach for an NFL job, and Michigan hired him away from that job -- his team was upset to see him go. It was essentially a lateral move from the pros to college in terms of title, so I'm not surprised that he's getting paid like he is. Pep is a future NFL head coach IMO.

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corundum

January 24th, 2017 at 4:49 PM ^

I think it's clear that Frey would make a nice segue into Drevno's slot if the OL and running game is subpar again this year. Drevno would get a HC opportunity and Michigan would reload or even upgrade as Frey becomes OL coach and Pep/Harbaugh would absorb the play calling. Seems like a win-win for all parties involved.

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jabberwock

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.

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RVA Wolverine

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. 

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I Like Burgers

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.

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bluesalt

January 24th, 2017 at 5:14 PM ^

But Hamilton is both younger than Drevno and has already been a coordinator at both a major college program (Stanford) and in the NFL, and most recently was an assistant head coach in the NFL. Hamilton had already passed Drevno by on the career ladder since they last coached together at Stanford. It happens. Like in my organization, my boss left her position a couple of years ago to somewhere else within the organization, partly because her boss was abusive to her. Today she just came back to my section, having been promoted, and is now the boss of her former boss. It happens, and as this example may shortly show, it's best not to be abusive to those beneath you. So hopefully Drevno and Hamilton had a good working relationship before, and hopefully that continues in the future.

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Tyrone Biggums

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.

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I Like Burgers

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.

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lhglrkwg

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

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