You wish to win large at UCLA?
It’s going to price you.
You desire a mediocre program?
It’s nonetheless going to price you.
Win or lose this season, the Bruins’ soccer coaches are going to make a school-record $9,854,700, in keeping with information obtained by the Los Angeles Instances. That features coach Chip Kelly’s $5.6 million wage that got here with a $1-million retention bonus he pocketed earlier this 12 months for nonetheless being on the job at a time when he had gone 10-21 over his first three seasons.
Offensive and defensive coordinators Justin Frye and Jerry Azzinaro will make $700,000 apiece and Brian Norwood, the crew’s defensive backs coach and defensive passing recreation coordinator, will take house $500,000.
Inside linebackers coach Don Pellum and quarterbacks coach Ryan Gunderson will every make $400,000. Line of defense coach Johnny Nansen will make $368,000 after securing a $145,000 retention bonus and a $23,000 increase.
Tight ends and particular groups coach Derek Sage will make $350,000. Working backs coach DeShaun Foster, who presides over arguably probably the most profitable place group since Kelly’s arrival, will make $313,700 after getting a $23,300 increase earlier this 12 months.
Exterior linebackers coach Jason Kaufusi will make $273,300 and former UCLA quarterback Jerry Neuheisel will make $250,000 in his first season because the huge receivers coach after having been promoted from his position as a graduate assistant.
Every assistant coach may also make as much as $100,000 in bonuses. An look within the Pac-12 championship recreation is value $15,000; an look in any bowl recreation is value $10,000; an look in a New Yr’s Six bowl recreation is value $20,000; an look within the School Soccer Playoff semifinal is value $10,000; an look within the School Soccer Playoff championship is value $20,000; and a nationwide championship is value $25,000.
Kelly’s bonuses might quantity to as a lot as $1.085 million yearly primarily based on crew efficiency and tutorial achievement, with the coach pocketing $10,000 beginning with the crew’s sixth win within the common season.
The quantity that UCLA followers wish to keep away from coming into play is Kelly’s $9-million buyout, which expires on Jan. 15, 2022.
This story initially appeared in Los Angeles Instances.