The University of Alabama will pay its 10 football assistants $7.541 million in basic annual compensation for the 2019 season, according to contracts approved Wednesday by the university board of trustees’ compensation committee.
That represents an increase of more than $1.4 million over what Alabama paid its assistants last season and likely will give the school the largest 2019 assistant-coach payroll among all FBS public schools.
In addition the basic pay, Alabama agreed to pay nearly $565,000 in buyouts on behalf of four assistants it hired from other schools -- all members of the Southeastern Conference -- as part of an overhaul of last season’s staff.