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The Texas Longhorns are rewarding Steve Sarkisian.
According to On3, the Texas Longhorns are giving head football coach, Steve Sarkisian a MASSIVE pay raise, which also includes a four-year extension.
Sarkisian will see his pay increase from the $5.6 million that he made in 2023, to $10.3 million in 2024, which will make him the third-highest-paid head coach in all of college football. The deal will also add four years to his contract, which now runs through 2030, and will guarantee him $74.2 million. If Texas wins a national championship between 2024 and 2030, Sarkisian will receive a $1.25 million bonus.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Texas coach Steve Sarkisian’s contract extension will push his guaranteed salary to $10.3 million this year, making him one of the highest-paid coaches in the country after leading the Longhorns to the Big 12 championship and their first appearance in the College Football Playoff.
Texas announced the contract extension through the 2030 season last month but had not released financial details. The deal is set to be approved next week by the University of Texas System Board of Regents, which on Saturday published the details in the board agenda.
The extension includes $100,000 annual raises that will push Sarkisian’s guaranteed salary to $10.9 million by the final year. He also gets a one-time $300,000 bonus payment and 20 hours of personal use every year on the school’s private plane.
Sarkisian is eligible to earn more than $1.5 million in bonuses if the Longhorns win a national championship.
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His original contract called for him to get paid $5.8 million in 2024. According to the regents’ agenda, the raises are a 78% overall increase in Sarkisian’s guaranteed compensation.
“Coach Sark is an incredible coach, a first-class person and tremendous leader of men,” Board of Regents Chairman Kevin Eltife said on Jan. 14 when Texas first announced the extension. “Coach Sark has brought the pride and passion back in our program.”
Texas finished 12-2 and ranked No. 3 last season after a 37-31 loss to Washington in a national semifinal that came down to the final play. The Longhorns won the Big 12 in their final season in the league. Texas moves into the Southeastern Conference next season.
Sarkisian, 49, is 25-14 in his three seasons at Texas.
“We’re just getting started,” Sarkisian said in January. “We’ve been building this program for long-term success.
Texas also is extending the contracts of tight ends coach Jeff Banks, offensive coordinator Kyle Flood and defensive coordinator Pete Kwiatkowski.
No. 3 Texas softball now has four wins over top 10 foes in its first seven games this season.
In the first couple of weeks 2024 regular season, No. 3 Texas softball has been on fire. Texas swept the competition, going 4-0 in the Stacy Winsberg Tournament last weekend to open the 2024 campaign.
Two of those wins for Texas in the Stacy Winsberg Tournament last weekend came against a top 10 foe in the No. 8 UCLA Bruins. One of those two wins over UCLA saw the Longhorns amass a historic 16-0 shutout win in five innings on Feb. 10.
After the electric 5-0 start that the Longhorns got off to in southern California last weekend, the major polls boosted this team up deservedly into the top five. D1Softball even ranked the Longhorns as high as No. 2, behind only the No. 1 Oklahoma Sooners, in this week’s poll.
Kayden Henry and Reese Atwood lead No. 3 Texas softball to two more top 10 wins to open up this weekend in Clearwater
Texas got another set of tough challenges this weekend in the Shriners Children’s Clearwater Invitational in Clearwater, FL, against multiple top 10 foes in the first day of action alone. Sophomore Reese Atwood and the Longhorns battled two top 10 foes just a few hours apart from each other to kick off the action in Clearwater this weekend.
First, Atwood registered the Longhorns’ only run batted in to get the narrow 2-1 victory over the No. 2 Tennessee Lady Vols on Feb. 16. Atwood’s first-inning RBI combined with three hits and a run from freshman outfielder Kayden Henry was enough to get the Longhorns over the hump against the Lady Vols.
Then, Henry had another big outing for the Longhorns to salt the game away in an impressive and convincing 9-2 win over the No. 9 Stanford Cardinal in the second of two games in Clearwater on Feb. 16. Henry delivered four RBIs on two home runs, along with two RBI and one home run from Atwood in the seven-run win over the Cardinal.
Texas’s pitching staff also complimented the Texas bats with another dominant showing on the mound on Feb. 16. The Longhorns still have yet to allow over two runs in a game, which is insane given that four of their first seven contests have come against top 10 foes this season.
Two more ranked foes remain in the Shriners Children’s Clearwater Invitational for Texas
The tough tests keep coming for the Longhorns in Clearwater this weekend. Texas battles the North Carolina Tar Heels and No. 18 Kentucky Wildcats on Feb. 17 in the afternoon and evening for the back-to-back games.
The Shriners Children’s Clearwater Invitational wraps up for the Longhorns on Feb. 18 against the No. 22 Northwestern Wildcats, with an early-Sunday morning first pitch time at 8:30 a.m. CT.
