Mizzou announces Contract Extension that raises Coach Gary Pinkel’s salary to $3.1 million per year!

[KoKo]

HOW MUCH...Do the STUDENTS at MIZZOU PAY for TUTION and the LOANS to PAY TUITION? HOW THE HELL is a FOOTBALL HEAD COACH entitled to a Wall Street Banker's Salary in Missouri where the Cost of Living is doesn't even compare? What does He DO with all that Money?



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Missouri coach Gary Pinkel says team stands behind protesting players
USA TODAY Sports 8:26 p.m. EST November 8, 2015


Missouri head coach Gary Pinkel tweeted out a statement confirming his support for protesting players. Some 30 members of the Missouri football team say they will not participate in activities until the system president leaves his office. VPC

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2015/11/08/missouri-coach-gary-pinkel-team-stands-behind-protesting-players/75415604/

Missouri head coach Gary Pinkel made it clear Sunday that the players threatening to boycott team activities and games have his full support.

"The Mizzou family stands as one. We are united. We are behind our players," Pinkel said in a tweet.

Pinkel took his position in response to an announcement Saturday night that more than 30 players will not participate until the university president has been removed from office.

"Today, Sunday, there will be no football practice or formal team activities," athletics director Mack Rhoades said in a statement. "Our focus right now is on the health of Jonathan Butler, the concerns of our student-athletes and working with our community to address this serious issue. After meeting with the team this morning, it is clear they do not plan to return to practice until Jonathan resumes eating. We are continuing to have department, campus, and student meetings as we work through this issue and will provide further comment (Monday) afternoon."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2015/11/08/missouri-coach-gary-pinkel-team-stands-behind-protesting-players/75415604/

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March 6, 2014

Mizzou announces contract extension that raises Gary Pinkel’s salary to $3.1 million per year



The coach with the most wins in Missouri football history will be sticking around for a while longer after the university announced Thursday that it had reached a contract extension through the 2020 season with coach Gary Pinkel.

By TOD PALMER

The coach with the most wins in Missouri football history will be sticking around for a while longer after the university announced Thursday that it had reached a contract extension through the 2020 season with coach Gary Pinkel.

Under terms of the new deal, Pinkel’s annual base salary will increase from $2.35 million to $3.1 million per year. The deal was approved Wednesday when the MU Board of Curators met via teleconference.

Pinkel’s extension also provides for an increase in the salary pool for the Tigers’ nine assistant coaches from $2.262 million to $3.2 million.

After Missouri struggled in its first season in the SEC, going 5-7 overall and just 2-6 in conference play, the Tigers bounced back with authority in 2013.

Missouri, which went 12-2 last fall, won the SEC East division and earned a berth in the SEC Championship game en route to matching the program record for wins in a season.

The Tigers capped the season by knocking off Oklahoma State in the Cotton Bowl.

With that victory, Pinkel, 61, improved to 102-63 at Missouri, breaking a tie with Don Faurot for the most wins in school history.

Pinkel, who is 175-100-3 overall including his 10 seasons at Toledo, had been under contract through the 2017 season under terms of an extension signed in April 2011.

He made $2.8 million plus attendance and team-performance incentives worth an additional $350,000 during the 2013 season.

According to the USA Today college football coaches’ salaries database, Pinkel’s salary ranked No. 20 in the nation, but it was only eighth in the SEC ahead of Florida’s Will Muschamp, Mississippi State’s Dan Mullen, Auburn’s Gus Malzahn and Mississippi’s Hugh Freeze.

MU athletic director Mike Alden told reporters at the SEC Championship in early December in Atlanta that Missouri would look into extending Pinkel’s contract.

By mid-January, Pinkel, who did not speak to reporters Thursday, expressed frustration with the slow pace of negotiations.

Presumably, he is happy now that his assistant coaches received pay bumps.

Defensive coordinator Dave Steckel, who made $560,000 last season, received a raise to $600,000, which would be in the top 20 in the country last season.

http://www.kansascity.com/sports/college/sec/university-of-missouri/article341482/Mizzou-announces-contract-extension-that-raises-Gary-Pinkel%E2%80%99s-salary-to-3.1-million-per-year.html

[brush]

1. By backing his black players he just about guaranteed more bluechip recruits . . .

for that university.

Smart coach.

[Agschmid]

2. Yup.

[AngryAmish]

3. He is unfireable.

And 3.2 goes a long way in Mizzou. But the golf is lacking.

My dream job? U o T Chattanooga coach. Lookout Mountain and all that. Special place.

[KoKo]

5. Next Step for the Protests is to do something about the Coach's Salary and

whatever it costs to attend UofM.....in school loans for tuition.

That salary is obscene....but, then I'm old enough to remember when Universities weren't formed around SPORTS for PROFIT.

That's why I was outraged. Unless UofM is Tuition Free for Instates then there's probably some high fees going on for students who will leave with much debt. And, that's why I hope the protests will build towards working on that.

[hifiguy]

6. Those kinds of salaries are usually

picked up in large part by very rich jock-sniffing boosters.

Not defensible in real world terms, but not as bad as it looks.

Though I agree about tuition.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

4. Who cares what he does with the money?

It's his money.

[kwassa]

7. Pinkel brought down the college president.

It is no secret that university football coaches are often more powerful, and earn far more money, than they people they ostensibly work for.

That is because football programs bring big money to the university.

When Pinkel joined together in solidarity with the members of the football team, and supported their boycott, Tim Wolfe was instantly history.