New AD Kelly getting big boost to join USF
New USF athletics director has signed a memorandum of understanding with the school for a five-year contract that will pay him a $625,000 annual base salary.
The memo, signed Monday by Kelly and USF president was released Wednesday upon a documents request from the Tampa Bay Times.
The one-page memo constitutes a binding agreement between Kelly and USF, with a long-form contract expected within 60 days. No bonus/incentive terms are discussed in the memo, and the offer is contingent upon Kelly, 47, passing a background check.
The base salary is $100,000 more per year than USF was paying Kelly’s predecessor, who signed a three-year contract extension in April but left for Utah earlier this month.
Kelly, who has served as chief operating officer of the College Football Playoff since November 2012, will formally be introduced at a press conference on campus Friday afternoon.
The Florida Gators have added to their 2018 signing class, announcing the addition of transfer
Krull, a 6-foot-7 tight end, hasn’t played football since 2015, when he had 52 catches for 745 yards and 13 touchdowns for a Mill Valley High state championship team in Kansas. He most recently pitched at Jefferson College; he appeared in 11 games (five starts) this season as a redshirt freshman.
Kansas State, Missouri and Maryland were among the other programs recruiting him.
In a tearful two-hour meeting, University of Maryland football head coach and acting athletics director
reassured parents of Terps football players that the program had followed protocols the day was hospitalized. McNair, 19, died June 13, two weeks after the Randallstown, Md., resident collapsed during an organized team workout in College Park. The circumstances of the offseason workout have come under scrutiny from the university, which has hired a sports medicine consultant to review the death of the offensive lineman. A cause of death has not been disclosed.
Three parents who spoke with the Baltimore Sun said Friday that they left Thursday’s meeting at the Gossett Team House in College Park confident in the coaches’ handling of the incident and the program.
“They assured us they are safety first,”
the mother lineman
said of the coaches. She added: “Everything that could have been done was done.”
Durkin said the coaching staff has begun taking extra precautions with players’ hydration levels. of offensive