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Steve Sarkisian didn’t pursue the Alabama job and is set to receive a hefty pay increase that would make him college football’s third-highest-paid coach behind Clemson’s Dabo Swinney and Georgia’s Kirby Smart.
Steve Sarkisian’s very good year just got better.
But so did Texas’.
The Longhorns’ third-year head football coach, who took them to a 12-2 record and their first appearance in the College Football Playoff last season, will almost double his salary and make $10.3 million next season with annual incremental raises of $100,000 through 2030. The salary bump will pay him at least $74.2 million over the course of the next seven seasons, not including bonuses that could top out at $1.85 million.
This expected news on top of the January announcement of a four-year extension reveals why Sarkisian never seriously considered himself a candidate for the briefly vacant Alabama head coaching job, which went to Washington’s Kalen DeBoer.
He’s home.
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Alabama clearly held Sarkisian in the highest regard and, if he had been interested, probably would have hired him over DeBoer. Given several strong public endorsements from Nick Saban and the fact that Sarkisian’s Longhorns whipped the Crimson Tide by 10 points in Tuscaloosa last September, he was probably at the top of Alabama athletic director Greg Byrne’s list of replacements.
“I’d say that’s accurate,” one college football insider said about Sarkisian’s appeal to Alabama.
But he was always staying put.
He knew he could make similar money in Austin, but moreover he is unabashedly ambitious and hungry to stamp his own imprint on Texas’ storied football program, which has four national championships.
Steve Sarkisian, left, and Nick Saban chat before the 2022 Texas-Alabama…
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Author : Austin American-Statesman
Publish date : 2024-02-17 20:23:41
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