CLEMSON, S.C. — Clemson males’s basketball coach Brad Brownell obtained a brand new, five-year contract value $20 million after main the Tigers to the Elite Eight this previous season.
A panel of the Clemson board of trustees accredited Brownell’s enhanced contract, together with new offers for males’s soccer coach Mike Noonan and baseball coach Erik Bakich amongst a number of coaches and assistants on Thursday.
Athletic director Graham Neff mentioned Clemson’s coaches have been key in serving to the division compete in a variety of sports activities.
“Along with numerous accolades on the sphere, every of those leaders run packages constructed upon integrity and tutorial excellence,” Neff mentioned in a press release. “In an evolving setting, stability is essential and supplies Clemson the chance to compete nationally.”
Brownell, who’ll enter his fifteenth season this fall, is this system chief with 265 victories. His newest deal would tie him to the college via the 2028-29 season.
He’ll make $3.5 million subsequent season, a $500,000 enhance what he was scheduled to make underneath his outdated settlement.
Brownell will obtain a elevate of $250,000 for the ultimate 4 years of the contract, giving him $4.5 million within the final yr of the deal for the 2028-29 season.
Brownell thanked Clemson directors for his or her continued assist and was happy with his crew’s latest success, particularly in profitable 47 video games the previous two seasons — a program file for that span.
“There’s not a greater time than now to be a part of the Clemson household,” he mentioned.
The varsity would owe Brownell 50% of his whole compensation if he’s dismissed within the first two years of the deal. After that, Brownell would obtain 37.5% of what stays on the settlement.
Brownell has made 4 NCAA tournaments throughout his tenure, with this previous spring being his most profitable run. The sixth-seeded Tigers defeated Eleventh-seeded New Mexico within the NCAA opener earlier than ousting third-seeded Baylor and second-seeded Arizona to advance to the Elite Eight.
It ended a step shy of the Remaining 4 with an 89-82 loss to Alabama.
Brownell made $2.75 million final season, which ranked him fifth amongst ACC coaches’ salaries. This yr’s chief, Virginia coach Tony Bennett, obtained a contract extension, however didn’t embrace a elevate in his wage of simply over $4 million a yr.
Pitt coach Jeff Capel, who earned $3.5 million this yr, obtained a contract extension Wednesday. Monetary particulars weren’t launched.
Noonan, who gained two of the final three NCAA Faculty Cup championships, had two years added to his contract via the 2029 season, together with a elevate for subsequent season from $440,000 to $600,000. Noonan would obtain a enhance of $17,500 to his wage every year going ahead.
Bakich had the baseball crew internet hosting a house NCAA tremendous regional for the primary time since 2010. He had two years added to his deal via the 2030 season. He’ll obtain a elevate of $325,000 subsequent season for a wage of $1.275 million.
Bakich would obtain raises of $50,000 every season going ahead. He may even get retention bonuses of $200,000 ought to he stay with the Tigers this Sept. 1 and in September 2027 and September 2029.
Ladies’s soccer coach Eddie Radwanski and girls’s golf coach Kelley Hester every obtained contract extensions. Radwanski obtained three extra years via the 2028 season whereas Hester was given two extra years via 2029 season.
