CBS Sports is a registered trademark of CBS Broadcasting Inc. The new deal comes on the heels of a banner season for Holgersen in which he led the Cougars to a 12-2 record, a berth in the AAC Championship Game and win over Auburn in the Birmingham Bowl. ( Jon Shapley / Houston Chronicle ). Where Dana Holgorsen's UH salary ranks among football's richest, Icon Sportswire/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images. Getting There: What happened to the bathrooms at the Taste NY store on the Taconic? 6-keys: media/spln/collegefootball/reg/free/stories, By pressing sign up, I confirm that I have read and agree to the. Applewhite went 15-11 and made two bowl appearances in two seasons, but his brief tenure was marked by a sideline flap with star defensive tackle Ed Oliver, lopsided losses (his last 70-14 to Army in the Armed Forces Bowl) and poor coordinator hires. The University of Houston Board of Regents on Thursday approved a recommendation to increase football coach Tom Herman's annual salary to $3 . The information below applies to the data obtained for the 2022-2023 contract season: To see the methodology behind this data, click here. Co-offensive coordinator/offensive line coach Brandon Jones ($500,000), defensive coordinator Joe Cauthen ($430,000), co-offensive coordinator/quarterback coach Marquel Blackwell ($400,000) and co-defensive coordinator Doug Belk ($400,000) all received three-year deals that put them among the highest-paid assistants from a non-Power Five school, according to information obtained by the Houston Chronicle through an open-records request. UH will also increase its assistant coaching salary pool from $4.5 million to $5.5 million this season. If you factor in the salaries for strength and conditioning coach, director of football operations, and quality control/graduate assistant staffers, the salary pool is $2.645 million. "The University of Houston was behind in that regard," said Hunter Yurachek, UH's vice president for intercollegiate athletics. Fans and alumni of University of Houston attend a press conference introducing the new head football coach, Dana Holgorsen, at TDECU Stadium on Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019 in Houston. head coach/co-defensive coordinator/safeties 1 $301,000, Oscar Giles Assistant head coach/defensive line 1 $201,000, Jason Washington Special teams coordinator/cornerbacks 1 $176,000, Corby Meekins Tight ends/fullbacks 1 $161,000. Previously, he wrote about the Houston Astros from 1998-2002, Houston Texans from 2002-05 and the Texas Longhorns from 2005-09. Zach Barnett. The Cougars play Connecticut this weekend and Navy the day after Thanksgiving for a spot in the inaugural AAC championship game. In other words, Houston gets invited or not invited if they dont or do these upgrades. With a chance to advance to the AAC championship game for the second straight season, Hermans name surfaced as a candidate for several high-profile jobs (job speculation was a distraction most of the season) and UH lost to Memphis in a 48-44 shootout. The LSU Board of Supervisors approved at its monthly meeting new contracts for the Tigers' football coaching staff worth a cumulative $13,577,500 for the 2020 season. I do not buy that facilities, increased budgets, coaching salaries, etc. He currently covers college athletics, focusing on the University of Houston. But even if Orlando stayed at his first contract amount, the Longhorns would have still placed at the top of the Big 12 Conference for the 2018 season with the most money paid out to the assistant coaching staff. Also on the podium was Tilman Fertitta, from left, Renu Khartor and Chris Pezman. You see what happened with basketball. His Mountaineer offenses were similarly effective. The annual unveiling of the absurd figurespaid out to College Football coaches has arrived with the release of USA Today's 2018 salary database for head and assistant coaches at most NCAA college football programs.