Three new Wisconsin football assistant coaches’ salaries were made public.
The new assistants to the University of Wisconsin football program will have slightly lower salaries than those of their predecessors.
Following an open records request, Badger Extra received the salaries of three of the new Badger coaches: co-defensive coordinator and safeties coach Alex Grinch, wide receivers coach Kenny Guiton, and offensive line coach AJ Blazek. Additionally, a request was made for E.J. Whitlow, the defensive line coach, whose hiring was revealed on Monday following news of it last week.
In the first two years of his contract, Blazek will earn $650,000 a year, which is the same salary that previous offensive line coach Jack Bicknell Jr. was scheduled to start earning on April 1. Though Badgers coach Luke Fickell stated at a booster event earlier this month that it was to be determined what, if any, role Bicknell will have in the program moving forward, Bicknell was reallocated in the program and is still on staff.
After playing for Fickell at Ohio State in the early 2010s, Guiton will now earn $425,000 a year for the next two years, which is less than the $550,000 that former wide receivers coach Mike Brown made. In addition, Brown was named associate head coach; however, he left Wisconsin to take a comparable position at Notre Dame.
Wisconsin’s most surprising hire of the cycle was Grinch, who was the defensive coordinator at Southern Cal and Oklahoma under coach Lincoln Riley. Grinch will be paid $500,000, down $50,000 from what former co-defensive coordinator and safeties coach Colin Hitschler was making. Grinch’s salary at USC was $1.8 million.
The difference in assistant coaching salary pool will be determined once Whitlow’s deal is released. Last season’s assistants had a salary total of $5.4 million, and this season’s group is at $5.075 million before Whitlow’s salary is added, but after factoring in raises that start April 1.
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