{"id":2691,"date":"2016-06-21T14:40:05","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T19:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/?p=2691"},"modified":"2016-09-19T23:50:13","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T04:50:13","slug":"ou-football-coaches-get-extensions-and-raises-lincoln-riley-and-mike-stoops-top-900000-yearly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/?p=2691","title":{"rendered":"OU Football coaches get extensions and raises; Lincoln Riley and Mike Stoops top $900,000 yearly"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"lead630-08055d91912da8d308b7b14b7fb2c647\"<\/a>
Oklahoma’s Trevor Knight (9) and Baker Mayfield (6) stand with Lincoln Riley offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach during the second half of a college football game where the University of Oklahoma Sooners (OU) defeated the Kansas Jayhawks 62-7 at Memorial Stadium in Lawrence, Kansas, on Saturday, Oct. 31, 2015. Photo by Steve Sisney, The Oklahoman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
<\/h5>\n
It is a good year\u00a0for the\u00a0Oklahoma Sooners\u00a0football coaches as it was announced that offensive coordinator Lincoln Riley and defensive coordinator Mike Stoops have had their contracts extended through 2018 with an annual salary close to the $900,000 mark.\u00a0 For Riley, it is a raise close to $400,000 as he made $500,000 in 2015.\u00a0 For Bob’s little brother Mike, he will garner around $50,000 more as his take in 2015 was close to $850,000 a year.\u00a0 The raise puts Riley as the highest paid offensive coordinator in the Big 12.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

It was also reported that Head Coach Bob Stoops contract was also extended\u00a0through the 2021 season.\u00a0 The University did not say the annual salary of Coach Bob but it is expected to be in the area of $5,5 million\u00a0plus extenders.\u00a0 He made $5.25 million in 2015.\u00a0 It is expected that the leader for the OU football program will\u00a0follow Nick Saban, Alabama\u00a0($6.9 million) as the highest paid coach in college football\u00a0Kevin Sumlin, aTm ($5.0 million), and Charlie Strong, Texas ($5.0 million)\u00a0are also in \u00a0the five million dollars a year coaches club.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Other assistants on the staff at Oklahoma also received pay raises<\/strong><\/span>.<\/h5>\n

Feature photo found at:\u00a0 http:\/\/blog.mysanantonio.com\/big12\/2013\/08\/page\/2\/<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"940x-512x356\"<\/a>
Mike Stoops and brother Bob coach the OU sidelines. Photo found at: http:\/\/thecomeback.com\/thestudentsection\/2014\/what-about-bob-what-about-mike-oklahoma-and-the-stoops-brothers-face-a-difficult-situation.html<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
<\/div>\n

<\/path><\/svg><\/i> \"Loading\"<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is a good year\u00a0for the\u00a0Oklahoma Sooners\u00a0football coaches as it was announced that offensive coordinator…<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

<\/path><\/svg><\/i> \"Loading\"<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[361,17,15,82,766,14,26,764,180,765,452],"class_list":["post-2691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-college-sports","tag-atm","tag-big-12","tag-bob-stoops","tag-charlie-strong","tag-kevin-sumlin","tag-lincoln-riley","tag-mike-stoops","tag-nick-saban","tag-univ-of-texas","tag-university-of-alabama","tag-university-of-oklahoma"],"a3_pvc":{"activated":true,"total_views":295,"today_views":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2691"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2697,"href":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions\/2697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}