What Tigers’ coaching staff will earn in 2021
Memphis football coach Ryan Silverfield and several returning assistants received pay raises entering the 2021 season, although his staff will collectively make less than it did last season.
Silverfield will make $1.8 million this season, a $50,000 increase from his first year that was scheduled per the terms of his contract. His assistant coaches will make $2.67 million this season, according to documents obtained by The Commercial Appeal.
It's less than the $2.77 million the assistants made in 2020. However, that total was reduced by more than 12% due to the Memphis athletics department cutting costs stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. Silverfield, his assistants and director of athletic performance Noah Franklin agreed to pay cuts that totaled $572,242.92.
Four assistants will make at least $300,000 this season, one fewer than last season. It reflects two changes on Silverfield's staff, with former specials teams coordinator Pete Lembo and wide receivers coach John Simon each making $305,000 last season.
Lembo is now at South Carolina in the same capacity, and Simon resigned this spring after two Title IX and sexual misconduct complaints were filed against him.
Silverfield's salary pool for assistant coaches and football personnel remains at $3 million for the second consecutive season.
What Silverfield's new assistants will make
Silverfield hired three new assistants, including special teams coordinator Charles Bankins. Bankins will make $200,000 in the first of a two-year contract after serving in the same capacity at Charlotte last season.
Linebackers coach Jordon Hankins will make $175,000 after being hired from Marshall. Hankins will also serve as assistant special teams coordinator.
Tight ends coach Brad Salem is also making $175,000 this season after being promoted from senior offensive consultant in 2020. In Salem's final season as offensive coordinator at Michigan State, he made $517,847 in 2019.
What Silverfield's returning staff will make
Defensive coordinator Mike Macintyre
and offensive line coach Jim Bridge did not receive raises but will get them in 2022. Macintyre will make $420,000 for the second consecutive season and Bridge will make $360,000.
Per their contracts, Macintyre is set to earn $435,000 next season and Bridge will earn $365,000.
Macintyre and Bridge were also among six assistants last season who forfeited their bowl game bonuses, equal to one month's pay, as part of their pay cuts. Offensive coordinator Kevin Johns also forfeited his bonus, as did Franklin, Lembo, Simon and former linebackers coach Bert Watts, now at
Auburn.
Silverfield and four assistants agreed to monthly salary reductions from last November through the end of the 202021 fiscal year on June 30 to match the equivalent of the bowl game bonuses they received.
Johns will make $400,000 this season, a $25,000 raise from last year. It's also more than the $380,000 he made in his final season as offensive coordinator at Texas Tech in 2018.
Defensive backs coach Charles Clark received the largest raise among the returning assistants. He will make $315,000 this year, a $90,000 bump from his first year at Memphis. Defensive line coach Kyle Pope received a $50,000 raise and will make $275,000 in his second season with the Tigers.
Running backs coach Anthony Jones, the second-longest tenured Memphis coach behind Silverfield, will earn $180,000 this year, up from $175,000. Jones, who was hired before the Autozone Liberty Bowl in 2017, will also be the Tigers' recruiting coordinator this season.
Wide receivers coach David Glidden will make $165,000 after being promoted from tight ends coach in the spring.