New Missouri football coach Eliah Drinkwitz, basketball coaches Cuonzo Martin and Robin Pingeton, plus baseball coach Steve Bieser and wrestling coach Brian Smith have volunteered to take temporary salary reductions to help the university cope with expenses during the coronavirus pandemic, MU confirmed Thursday. Missouri athletics director Jim Sterk will also take a pay cut. The cuts will occur from May 1 to July 31.
Earlier this week, 20 people in the Mizzou athletics department, both staff and coaches, received an email from university leadership asking them to participate in the same temporary 10-percent salary cuts that other university leaders have agreed to take.