Clemson's coaches get pay raises
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CLEMSON -- We're here at the winter quarterly Board of Trustees meeting, where they just approved raises for Clemson's assistant football coaches.
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Here are the details:
Brent Venables (3years): To $2 million from $1.7 million
Tony Elliott (3 years): To $850,000 from $800,000
Jeff Scott (3 years): To $850,000 from $800,000
Robbie Caldwell (2 years): To $540,000 from $515,000
Danny Pearman (2 years): To $480,000 from $460,000
Brandon Streeter (2 years): To $455,000 from $430,000
Mike Reed: (2 years): To $440,000 from $420,000
Mickey Conn (2 years): To $370,000 from $350,000
Todd Bates (2 years): To $300,000 from $250,000
Lemanski Hall (2 years): $300,000 (first year)
*** Elliott received a $25,000 signing bonus for winning the Broyles Award, which recognizes college football's top assistant.
*** Wesley Goodwin, who spent six years at Clemson before leaving for the Arizona Cardinals in 2015, returns as an analyst making $101,000 a year. He fills the vacancy opened when Hall was named the 10th on-field assistant.
Venables would appear to be the second highest-paid assistant in the country, behind LSU's Dave Aranda. Aranda recently received a raise to $2.5 million from $1.8 million.
Also with Venables, his contract continues to state that he will owe Clemson nothing if he takes a head-coaching job.
By our math, Clemson is paying its assistants a total of $6.585 million.
By comparison, Florida State's 10 assistants reportedly are making $4.97 million.
Alabama's assistants made $5.9 million last year. That of course does not include the 10th assistant that the NCAA allowed to go into effect in January (Hall filled that spot for Clemson).
For some context, here were the 2016 salaries of Clemson's assistants:
Venables: $1.43 million
Elliott: $643,750
Scott: $643,750
Caldwell: $465,000
Pearman: $435,000
Streeter: $375,000
Reed: $400,000
Hobby: $507,000
Brooks: $457,917
Here are the bonuses paid out to Clemson's main staff, per the terms of their contracts for 2017 on-field achievements:
Swinney: $400,000
Venables: $160,000
Conn: $60,000
Caldwell: $60,000
Elliott: $60,000
Bates: $60,000
Pearman: $60,000
Reed: $60,000
Scott: $60,000
Streeter: $60,000
Batson: $60,000
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