COLUMBIA, MO. • Newly hired Missouri offensive coordinator Derek Dooley agreed to a three-year contract paying him a guaranteed salary of $900,000, according to the memorandum of understanding obtained by the Post-Dispatch.
Dooley, the former head coach at Louisiana Tech and Tennessee, spent the last five seasons as the Dallas Cowboys wide receivers coach. He'll take over Barry Odom's offense and coach quarterbacks while becoming the highest paid assistant coach in the program's history. That distinction previously belonged to Josh Heupel, MU's offensive coordinator the last two seasons. Heupel had one year left on a three-year contract that paid him $700,000 annually before he became the head coach at Central Florida last month.