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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Kevin13

January 24th, 2017 at 4:16 PM ^

all the coaches and don't think anyone would have any room to bitch. You want the best coaches you have to pay for them. I think the pressure though will be on all of them. You were brought in or given raises, we need to see the results.

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The Fan in Fargo

January 24th, 2017 at 4:41 PM ^

Holy shit!! Time to deliver eh coaches?!! It's only money and Michigan has a ton of it. We all want to see this team win. Guess we'll find out if they are truly worth it the next few years. I think they'll deliver after driving them brand new rides and eating steak and lobster 4 times a week!! 

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jalenwestman

January 24th, 2017 at 5:14 PM ^

Need to start making the playoffs or the media and haters are going to be all over us. If we go 8-5 next year, I am going to have to stay off twitter. Huge positive is that we will continue to get top assistant coaches in the future. If you can't pay the players, buy the best coaches.

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MichiganStan

January 24th, 2017 at 5:39 PM ^

Some writer just posted on Twitter that Michigan is the first team in NCAA with 3 Assistants who are paid 1 million or more annually. To go along with Harbaugh who made 9 million+ in 2016. That's a whopping 12 million in just 4 coaches

For the type of money being thrown at our football program right now its powerhouse or bust

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Texagander

January 24th, 2017 at 8:52 PM ^

I could see Pep being the OC next year after looking at these contracts. Drevno really wants a HC job. These contracts and bringing in Frey look like Harbaugh is planning for the future.



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I dumped the Dope

January 24th, 2017 at 10:43 PM ^

This is how a football program runs when you have and intend to retain an elite coach and wish to focus on the business of winning football games.  Recruit, and invest in, the finest football minds.

Versus

A previously attempted exponent on How to have a historic legacy and the focus is to milk it for all its worth.  Recruit, and invest in, the finest marketing gurus.

See also: Barry Alvarez and how to "alumni-coach" in bowl games.

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alum96

January 25th, 2017 at 12:32 AM ^

If you believe in return on investment and not just spending money like the Yankees of the 90s, Wisconsin is laughing all the way to the bank.  They went 11-3 this year spending a fraction of what UM did.  And with far lower rated recruits. I'd call that pretty smart and not something to mock.

Wisconsin is a model fo not spending big and not needing to recruit at the highest levels and still getting a lot of bang for the buck.  If you go back 20 years I bet the records of the 2 schools are not much different.  And that's with losing 2 of their coaches involuntarily in that span.

As someone else said above, all we've done now is spend a lot of money to get us back to Lloyd Carr results.  The longer it goes without championships it begins to look bad.  These guys are being paid at Bama level - they need to perform.

EDIT - just checked, in the past 20 years (incl 1997)

  • WISC 186-75 (71.2%)
  • UM 171-80 (68.1%)

They look like smart spenders to me. 

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BlueLava009

January 25th, 2017 at 9:10 AM ^

I agree....And everyone on here is so afraid to say anything negative about our saint savior Harbaugh, we cant speak the truth for a minute.  Has this staff done a great job thus far, no doubt, will they keep getting better, hopefully....DO they deserve close to 15mil a year in salaries, probably not yet....

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BlueLava009

January 25th, 2017 at 9:05 AM ^

between those 3 guys and Harbaugh thats 11-12 mil a year in salaries alone, Signing of the stars/Rome/Jerry World Game, what is the budget of the Football team??

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enzo

January 25th, 2017 at 9:21 AM ^

I know I'm in the minority but these salaries are getting ridiculous.  It's more lucrative to coach at a top  Power 5 school than it is to coach in the NFL.  Schools are making so much money, and since they can't pay the players, they plow it back into facillities, trips, and coaches salaries.  It's time these player's start getting more of the pie.

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