Texas Tech will pay its assistant football coaches the same amount next season as last season, and new defensive coordinator Matt Wallerstedt will make the most of any assistant on either staff, according to a document released by the university.
The salary pool for both staffs is $2.125 million. The Avalanche-Journal obtained the information via an open records request.
New Tech head coach Kliff Kingsbury hired Wallerstedt from Texas A&M after the two worked together on the Aggies’ staff in 2012. Wallerstedt, who was linebackers coach for the Aggies, will make $425,000 as the Red Raiders’ defensive coordinator. He was a defensive coordinator, for a total of nine years, at Wyoming, North Alabama and Air Force.
The highest paid assistant on Tommy Tuberville’s last Tech staff was offensive coordinator Neal Brown at $400,000.
Mike Smith, hired off the New York Jets’ staff to be the Red Raiders’ co-defensive coordinator, will make $240,000. Trey Haverty, hired from TCU to be the Red Raiders’ safeties and special teams coach, will make $235,000.
All of Kingsbury’s new offensive assistants will be paid virtually the same amount. New running backs coach Mike Jinks will make $215,000 while co-offensive coordinators Sonny Cumbie and Eric Morris and offensive line coach Lee Hays will make $210,000 apiece.
Kingsbury hired Jinks away from Cibolo Steele, where he had a 76-18 record and led one of the state’s most successful high school programs in recent years.
Hays has been an offensive coordinator at West Texas A&M, Baylor and Tarleton State.
Cumbie is the only holdover from 2012. With his promotion from inside receivers coach to co-offensive coordinator, Cumbie received a $50,000 raise.
Tuberville’s defensive coaches joined him at Cincinnati. Brown, running backs coach Chad Scott and wide receivers coach Tommy Mainord all were hired at Kentucky.
Chris Thomsen was hired to coach running backs at Arizona State. He was the Red Raiders’ offensive line coach last season and served as interim head coach for Tech’s victory over Minnesota in the Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas.
Here are salaries for Texas Tech’s 2013 football staff and how they compare to the pay for the 2012 staff.
2013 STAFF
Matt Wallerstedt, defensive coordinator, $425,000
Mike Smith, co-defensive coordinator, $240,000
Trey Haverty, safeties/special teams, $235,000
Mike Jinks, running backs, $215,000
Sonny Cumbie, co-offensive coordinator, $210,000
Eric Morris, co-offensive coordinator, $210,000
Lee Hays, offensive line, $210,000
Kevin Curtis, cornerbacks, $205,000
John Scott, defensive line, $175,000
Total: $2,125,000
2012 STAFF
Neal Brown, offensive coordinator, $400,000
Art Kaufman, defensive coordinator, $350,000
Chris Thomsen, offensive line, $250,000
Robert Prunty, defensive ends, $250,000
Chad Scott, running backs, $200,000
John Lovett, defensive backs, $172,500
Fred Tate, defensive line, $172,500
Tommy Mainord, wide receivers, $170,000
Sonny Cumbie, inside receivers, $160,000
Total: $2,125,000
Comments (6)
Add commentCumbie
Wow....didn't realize Cumbie was getting the shaft under the prior regime.
Ehh
Cumbie was just a position coach previously, he got a rather sizeable promotion to come with that 50k.
Keep in mind, there is 1 less coordinator to pay for with this staff, so more money to go around.
Wow
It seems strange to me that the defensive coordinator of a football team makes more than the president of the university. I guess his responsibilities are much greater. Especially since his season is three months long versus twelve months for the president.
Look how well it worked when Tuber hired Glasgow at $400K a year. We sure got our moneys worth.
Maybe we need to pay lower salaries and a bonus depending on how we do.
Feaco
Your not attracting any sort of quality Defensive Coord at under 400k, you just aren't.
Coaches have a market rate, and you either pay it or you dont. If you dont pay it you dont get good coaches. And by that i mean much worse than glasgow.
Also who said the DC only works 3 months? They are literally flying around the country recruiting almost every single day. During the off season months, they may be home 90 days total.
Not a true picture of salaries
Understand what the AJ has listed is only their base salary from TTU. It does not include any endorsements, money they get from teaching camps, bonuses from bowls, perks of being a coach (car program, country club memberships, clothing).
Yes coaches salaries are getting high, but remember if they ever get fired it could take awhile to get another coaching job and they hopefully save some money for that occasion.
Support staff salaries
Well, there seems to be a few salaries missing on the budgets above. How about the low 5 figure salaries of those who keep the world turning beneath the whigs? It would be nice, after 20+ years for support staff to reap some of the benefits that our coaches and faculty receive. :)