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Salary pool increases 6 percent as Tech football assistants get one-year contracts
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Texas Tech defensive coordinator David Gibbs is shown prior to the spring scrimmage on March 28 in Midland.
Except for newly hired defensive coordinator David Gibbs, Texas Tech football assistant coaches all will be working the 2015 season on one-year contracts they signed recently.
Nearly all the assistants signed the new deals between early June and early July. All the assistants’ contracts run from May 1, 2015, through Jan. 31, 2016, except for Gibbs’ deal. He signed a two-year, $1.1 million contract upon being hired Jan. 5 from Houston.
Tech provided all the contracts in response to an open records request filed by A-J Media.
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The next highest-paid assistants are offensive coordinator Eric Morris and co-defensive coordinator and defensive line coach Mike Smith, both of whom have an annual base of $260,000.
Associate head coach Mike Jinks received a pay increase of nearly 12 percent as his annual base went to $240,000 from $215,000.
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The only other raise went to Smith, whose annual base had been $240,000.
Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury still has six of the nine assistants who were charter members of his staff. All six began with two-year contracts that expired after last season.
Former defensive coordinator Matt Wallerstedt was the only exception. He had a three-year deal, but Wallerstedt and Tech negotiated a settlement when he left the staff early in his second season.
Kingsbury’s contract stipulates that the salary pool for his assistant coaches must increase at least 3 percent annually. It rose by more than 6 percent from $2.205 million last year to $2.345 million this year.
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Salary pool increases 6 percent as Tech football assistants get one-year contracts
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Texas Tech defensive coordinator David Gibbs is shown prior to the spring scrimmage on March 28 in Midland.
Except for newly hired defensive coordinator David Gibbs, Texas Tech football assistant coaches all will be working the 2015 season on one-year contracts they signed recently.
Nearly all the assistants signed the new deals between early June and early July. All the assistants’ contracts run from May 1, 2015, through Jan. 31, 2016, except for Gibbs’ deal. He signed a two-year, $1.1 million contract upon being hired Jan. 5 from Houston.
Tech provided all the contracts in response to an open records request filed by A-J Media.
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The next highest-paid assistants are offensive coordinator Eric Morris and co-defensive coordinator and defensive line coach Mike Smith, both of whom have an annual base of $260,000.
Associate head coach Mike Jinks received a pay increase of nearly 12 percent as his annual base went to $240,000 from $215,000.
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The only other raise went to Smith, whose annual base had been $240,000.
Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury still has six of the nine assistants who were charter members of his staff. All six began with two-year contracts that expired after last season.
Former defensive coordinator Matt Wallerstedt was the only exception. He had a three-year deal, but Wallerstedt and Tech negotiated a settlement when he left the staff early in his second season.
Kingsbury’s contract stipulates that the salary pool for his assistant coaches must increase at least 3 percent annually. It rose by more than 6 percent from $2.205 million last year to $2.345 million this year.
don.williams@lubbockonline.com
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