FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas will pay its football assistant coaches a program record of more than $5 million in 2020.
The total salary pool for the 10 assistant coaches is $5.025 million.
That is a 2.2 percent increase over 2019, when the Razorbacks’ assistants were paid $4.915 million. The salary pool has increased each offseason since the end of the 2014 season.
Arkansas officially announced the final four hires to Sam Pittman’s first coaching staff Monday, introducing running backs coach Jimmy Smith from Georgia State, special teams coordinator Scott Fountain from Georgia, tight ends coach Jon Cooper from Central Florida and defensive line coach Derrick LeBlanc from Kentucky.