On Friday, Virginia Tech football released salary information for Brent Pry's assistant coaches.
Outlined in Pry's contract, which was handed out to the media on Dec. 2 at his introductory press conference, the budget for ten full-time assistant coaches was $5.5M. The total compensation for Pry's assistants in 2022 is $5,225,000, which means the Hokies have $275K left over.
Below is a graphic with the complete breakdown of the salaries for the assistants.
Tyler Bowen, Tech's offensive coordinator, headlines the group at $850,000. Chris Marve, the defensive coordinator, will make $825,000, a bump from $500K he made at Florida State in 2021.
The total salary for the offensive assistant coaches is $2,825,000, with offensive line coach and running game coordinator Joe Rudolph making $725,000, the next highest after Bowen and Marve. It's a $50K increase from what he made at Wisconsin this past season.
Stu Holt will earn $500,000, up from the $390,000 he made at Louisville last year. Holt, Bowen, Marve and Rudolph are the four coaches that are on three-year terms. The contracts for the rest of the staff are each two years.
Quarterbacks coach and passing game coordinator Brad Glenn is set to make $475,000. It's almost an 83% increase for Glenn, who made $260,000 at Georgia State. Fontel Mines, the wide receiver coach and offensive recruiting coordinator, will make $275,000. That's up $170K from the $105,000 he made on Ricky Rahne's staff at Old Dominion in 2021.
Defensively, Derek Jones has the second-highest salary behind Marve at $550,000. It's not a large increase for the cornerbacks coach and defensive recruiting coordinator, who made $500,000 at Texas Tech.
Associate head coach and defensive line coach J.C. Price is set to make $475,000. Price, who was the interim head coach for the last four games after the school parted ways with Justin Fuente, made $275,000 last season.
Shawn Quinn, who will coach outside linebackers and nickelbacks, will earn $275,000. As the head coach at Savannah State, Quinn made just $90,000, so it's a significant increase - 205%, to be exact.
Safeties coach Pierson Prioleau has a salary of $275,000 as well, which rounds out the staff. Prioleau was the program's director of player development for the defense and made $85,000 previously.
The total salary for the defensive coaching staff is $2,400,000.
Support Staff
Virginia Tech also released compensation details for Brent Pry's support staff. Indicated in Pry's contract, the support staff budget is $2,250,000.
Dwight Galt IV, the director of strength & condition for football, ventured to the Hokies from ODU and will earn $325,000. Michael Hazel, who comes from Penn State, is the program's new chief of staff and has a salary of $200,000.
Both of those support staffers are on two-year letters of appointment, while Mike Villagrana, the senior director of player personnel, has a one-year deal. Villagrana, the former general manager of Marshall football, is set to make $170,000.
Salaries for Xavier Adibi and Brian Crist, who were hired as analysts over the last week, were not yet available.
How do the salaries compare to the old staff?
In 2021, the total assistant salary pool for Justin Fuente's staff was $3.52M. Pry's budget of $5.5M is a 48% increase.
Here is a graphic that shows how the compensation for Pry's staff compares to that of Fuente's group in 2021.
The difference that stands out the most is the number of assistants under Pry that will make at least $500,000 (five). The only coach that hit that mark this past season was former defensive coordinator and safeties coach Justin Hamilton, who earned $600,000.
The two largest difference come at offensive line. Former offensive line coach Vance Vice made just $300,000, while Rudolph is set to make $725,000. That's a salary bump of 242% at that position.
At cornerback, Jones will make $550,000, which is a 200% jump from what Ryan Smith earned in 2021 ($275,000).
Bowen will make close to double what former offensive coordinator Brad Cornelsen did - $850,000 vs. $490,000. Cornelsen was also the quarterbacks coach, and the difference between his salary and that of Glenn ($475,000), the new QBs coach, is marginal - just $15,000.
Another disparity is the two coaches with the least amount of Division I experience. Jack Tyler, the former linebackers coach, made just $150,000, while Pierson Prioleau is set to earn $275,000.
At head coach, Brent Pry is set to make $4,000,000 in total compensation in 2022. The full details of his contract can be found here. Justin Fuente earned $4,250,000 in 2021, which made him the third-highest paid head coach in the ACC.
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