Seth Littrell‘s first year at North Texas was good enough for the Mean Green to completely rip up the head coach’s original deal and sign him to a completely new one. With a raise, of course.
According to Brett Vito of the Denton Record-Chronicle, Littrell has signed a new 5-year deal that will up his base salary to $900,000. Littrell earned $815,000 in 2016, according to the USA Today salary coaching database. His new contract would place him second in Conference USA in 2016 among publicly available contracts, faintly trailing only Rice’s David Bailiff, who will coach his 11th year on the job this fall.
Littrell also netted a $36,000 bonus just for signing the deal.
He earned the new contract after leading North Texas to a 5-8 mark in his first year on the job, which doesn’t look like much on paper but represented a massive improvement from the 1-11 mark he inherited.