Auburn’s athletic director Jay Jacobs sprang news on the sporting world last week that Gus Malzahn had been given a contract extension. The paper was signed back on April 1st giving Coach Malzahn a one-year contract extension until 2020. Basically, money was shifted around so that Gus would be paid more in the coming years and less on the back end of his contract. Under his new deal, Malzahn would be paid $4.725 million per year through Dec. 31, 2020, which would make the Auburn football coach rank among the top-ten salaried coaches.
The pay structure jockeying is open to debate, and there are positives and negatives for both sides.