To lure offensive coordinator Charlie Weis away from the NFL, Florida athletic director Jeremy Foley made him the highest paid assistant in school history.
Weis signed a three-year contract with a base salary of $2.49 million earlier this month, according to documents released by the University Athletic Association on Friday. He will take home an annual base salary of $765,000 this season before receiving an extra $100,000 for the next two seasons, assuming he stays with the Gators. Weis also received a $100,000 signing bonus.
In all, UF’s nine assistant coaches will make $2.9 million in base salary this season. That is a $275,000 increase over the salaries of last year’s assistants.
Florida more than made up for that financial difference with new coach Will Muschamp’s contract. Muschamp will reportedly make $2.7 million in base salary this season. Former coach Urban Meyer hauled in $4 million per year.
The second highest paid assistant will be defensive coordinator Dan Quinn, who signed a two-year, $1 million contract. He will make $490,000 this year and $510,000 next year.
Weis and Quinn will make a combined $1.3 million this year. Florida’s previous coordinators, Steve Addazio and Teryl Austin, made a total of $815,000.
Offensive line and defensive line coaches Frank Verducci and Bryant Young are the only other assistants with multi-year contracts. They will annually bring in $290,000 and $230,000, respectively.
The other five assistants are signed to one-year deals, making an average of $230,000.
Running backs coach Brian White and linebackers coach/special teams coordinator D.J. Durkin are the only holdovers from Meyer’s staff. White will receive the same salary he did last year ($240,000) while Durkin was rewarded a $20,000 raise, bringing his salary to $260,000.
All coaches will receive the same $10,000 bonus from Nike that last year’s staff did.
