BTN's Dienhart: Kill has Minnesota looking at a bright future

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The salary posts on this thread, and a conversation with friends Saturday, led me to look up Kill's. According to Marcus R Fuller, Kill went from last in the B1G to middle when he jumped from $1.2M to $2.1M for this season. If Dienhart is correct in saying Kill is "as good a coach as you'll find," and I, of course, think he is, then he is grossly underpaid. Hoke is making $4.2, according to USA Today. Also interesting is the disparity between Claey's ($346,800) and Nussmeier ($830,000). The limitations of the Gopher program compared to the Wolverines in salaries and facilities makes me shake my head at the Kill critics here, who don't seem to see the big picture of how lucky we are to have him (them).
 

killme said:
The salary posts on this thread, and a conversation with friends Saturday, led me to look up Kill's. According to Marcus R Fuller, Kill went from last in the B1G to middle when he jumped from $1.2M to $2.1M for this season. If Dienhart is correct in saying Kill is "as good a coach as you'll find," and I, of course, think he is, then he is grossly underpaid. Hoke is making $4.2, according to USA Today. Also interesting is the disparity between Claey's ($346,800) and Nussmeier ($830,000). The limitations of the Gopher program compared to the Wolverines in salaries and facilities makes me shake my head at the Kill critics here, who don't seem to see the big picture of how lucky we are to have him (them).
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Claeys makes $600 k.
 


Can't find the numbers yet but pretty sure they got additional raises.

Kill's staff makes a combined $2,757,000. That would have ranked third in the Big Ten last season behind Ohio State ($3.47 million) and Michigan ($3.07 million).

'Gophers offensive coordinator Matt Limegrover, defensive coordinator Tracy Claeys and the other assistant coaches received raises last year. Kill’s new contract has language that guarantees the team’s assistant coaches’ salary pool will rank in the top six of the Big Ten.'

Kill also has many incentives to go along with his salary. Some are very reachable.

Among the additional incentives included in the deal:
  • $150,000 for winning the National Championship
  • $150,000 for being invited to the National Championship
  • $50,000 for winning 5 Big Ten games, with an additional $25,000 per each additional win
  • Bonuses ranging from $30,000 to $75,000 pegged to the team's Academic Progress Rate, graduation rate and Grade Point Average.
  • $50,000 if home game attendance hits 47,000 ($75,000 at 49,000 attendance)
The attendance one is of course avg season attendance. Other incentive payments not mentioned (lord knows why they only focused on the 2 most difficult to get bonuses):
- College FB playoff game or Rose Bowl? $125,000
- Winning B1G Title? $125,000
- Win or share B1G West Division title? $100,000
- Named National COY by organization from agreed upon list? $100,000
- B1G Coach of the Year according to Coaches or Media polls? $50,000
- Any bowl game besides Title Game, playoff game, or Rose Bowl? $50,000
- Bowl game win against ACC, SEC, Big 12, or Pac-12 team? $50,000
- APR greater than 960? $75,000
- APR greater than 950? $50,000
- APR greater than 940? $30,000
- Graduation Success Rate (GSR) of 80% or greater? $75,000
- GSR of 70% to 79.99%? $50,000
The contract also includes some other perks, both personal and recruiting related:

The new contract also offers: use of two personal cars (up from one); an increase to 60 hours of non-commercial airplane leasing for recruiting or other university business; a suite at TCF Bank Stadium for home games and 20 tickets to any Gophers bowl game; travel considerations for Kill's family to away games and for families of assistant coaches to one away game per season.
 

Here you go. Took a few minutes.

http://www.twincities.com/gophers/ci_25624245/u-rewards-kills-staff-raises-claeys-gets-250

The nine assistant coaches on the University of Minnesota football staff received raises in new contracts signed earlier this month, with defensive coordinator Tracy Claeys getting a $250,000 salary increase for the 2014 season.

Claeys, who was acting head coach last season while Kill managed his epilepsy, saw his salary jump from $346,800 last season to $600,000.
Offensive coordinator Matt Limegrover's pay increased from $341,800 to $550,000.

The two highest paid position coaches on Kill's staff are quarterbacks coach Jim Zebrowski and defensive backs/special teams coach Jay Sawvell, who both now earn $253,000 a year. Zebrowski previously made $225,550 and Sawvell made $210,550.

Limegrover and Claeys have contracts through 2017, while the other seven assistants have contracts through 2016.

Four of the other position coaches (Rob Reeves, Pat Poore, Jeff Phelps, Brian Anderson) received raises of nearly $30,000 to $230,000 annually.
Newly promoted linebackers coach Mike Sherels' salary is $181,000. The man he replaced, Billy Miller, made $225,550 last season. Miller left to coach linebackers at Florida State
 


Iceland12 said:
travel considerations for Kill's family to away games and for families of assistant coaches to one away game per season.
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I gathered from a conversation Saturday that it is either common or perhaps even an NCAA rule that families of assistant coaches at all schools get one trip per year. Don't have facts or details, but trust my source and it surprised me.

Thanks for the additional salary link. I think my initial point was we are getting a GREAT deal.
 

killme said:
Care to share a link? Or where you found that info? Every search I looked at confirms my numbers.
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http://247sports.com/Coach/Tracy-Claeys-975: "Salary: $600,000"
http://www.startribune.com/sports/gophers/271539471.html: "Claeys got a three-year deal that nearly doubled his salary to $600,000"
http://www.chatsports.com/minnesota...d-this-season-thats-back-upstairs-0-10296674: "Claeys went from making $4,000 a year as a defensive line coach at Saginaw Valley State to Kill's highest-paid assistant with a $600,000 salary after a $250,000 raise in April"
http://www.thedailygopher.com/2014/...lays-matt-limegrover-gary-shopak-glen-sonmor: "Tracy Claeys who went from $346,800 to $600,000"
 


Thanks. Iceland12 beat you to the punch. I certainly don't want to base my thoughts or points on inaccurate information and apologize for my error.
 





dpodoll68 said:
http://247sports.com/Coach/Tracy-Claeys-975: "Salary: $600,000"
http://www.startribune.com/sports/gophers/271539471.html: "Claeys got a three-year deal that nearly doubled his salary to $600,000"
http://www.chatsports.com/minnesota...d-this-season-thats-back-upstairs-0-10296674: "Claeys went from making $4,000 a year as a defensive line coach at Saginaw Valley State to Kill's highest-paid assistant with a $600,000 salary after a $250,000 raise in April"
http://www.thedailygopher.com/2014/...lays-matt-limegrover-gary-shopak-glen-sonmor: "Tracy Claeys who went from $346,800 to $600,000"
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That's not a bad career path. He certainly isn't done either.

I got into the wrong profession.
 


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