New defensive coordinator Steve Wilks will become the first seven-figure assistant coach in Mizzou history. Wilks, 51, agreed to a two-year contract that will pay him $2.4 million in total salary, an MU athletics department spokesman told the Post-Dispatch Monday.
Wilks' base salary for 2021 will be $800,000, plus he'll be eligible for $200,000 retention bonus that he'll receive in February 2022 if he remains on the staff. In year two, his base salary increases to $1 million, during which he'll receive two more retention payments of $200,000 in July and December should he stay at Mizzou, bringing the total deal to $2.