South Carolina head football coach Will Muschamp and his on-field assistants all received raises Friday, Jan. 12,2018.
South Carolina’s Board of Trustees approved Friday raises for head football coach Will Muschamp and his entire coaching staff.
The pay increases had been coming down the pipeline for a while, and athletics director Ray Tanner met with board members Tuesday to iron out the final details before Friday’s approval.
Muschamp received a three-year extension. The six-year deal runs through 2023, starting at $4.2 million a year and increasing by $200,000 each season.
The maximum bonus he could earn would be $1.4 million. The deal was approved unanimously.
USC’s total assistant salary pool is now $5.1 million. Defensive coordinator Travaris Robinson received a multi-year $1.2 million a year extension.
Offensive coordinator Bryan McClendon received a two-year deal at $650,000. New quarterback coach Dan Werner was given a two-year deal at $500,000 a season. Strength coach Jeff Dillman’s deal was extended through May 2019 at $450,000.
South Carolina finished 9-4 in Muschamp’s second season as head coach, and the Gamecocks have notched three-win improvements in back-to-back seasons for the first time in school history. He is 15-11 in his first two years at the school.
South Carolina paid Muschamp’s assistant coaches a total of $4 million in 2017, making them the 17th-highest paid staff in college football. Defensive coordinator Travaris Robinson ($750,000 annually) was the highest-paid assistant on the staff. The second-highest, former offensive coordinator Kurt Roper, was paid $700,000 annually before he was fired this month.
Wide receivers coach Bryan McClendon, who was promoted to full-time offensive coordinator Friday, made $500,000 last year. Veteran college assistant Dan Werner was hired last week as quarterbacks coach. Werner served as an offensive analyst for Alabama this season and is expected to begin work in Columbia this week.
The new salaries for the remainder of the staff includes: defensive line coach Lance Thompson ($550,000), offensive line coach Eric Wolford ($600,000), special teams coordinator and linebackers coach Coleman Hutzler ($475,000), running backs coach Bobby Bentley ($400,000), linebackers coach Mike Peterson ($300,000), tight ends coach Pat Washington ($300,000) and new 10th assistant Kyle Krantz ($125,000).
