MSU head football coach Mark Dantonio will receive a 60 percent raise as part of a revised contract announced Friday.
Dantonio, who has guided MSU to its first back-to-back bowl trips in more than a decade, will receive an annual compensation increase from $1.13 million to $1.8 million.
The second year coach’s base salary of $618,000 and contract length of five years will remain the same, but Dantonio’s supplemental income will increase from $500,000 annually to $869,000 annually. Dantonio is in the second year of his original five-year contract.
Dantonio also will receive a $200,000 annual bonus if he remains MSU’s head coach through June 30 each year and will be eligible for a $2 million bonus if he is leading the program after Jan. 15, 2016.
“It was important to reward Coach Dantonio for what his program has accomplished in two short years, but most importantly, we wanted to ensure continuity and set this football program up for sustained success,” MSU Athletics Director Mark Hollis said in a press release. “The contract revisions certainly help make his total compensation competitive in the Big Ten as well as nationally.”
In two seasons, Dantonio has compiled a 16-9 record while bringing MSU back to a New Year’s Day bowl game for the first time since the 1999 season.
“This revised contract signifies a mutual commitment,” Dantonio said in the press release. “The University has certainly made a commitment to provide all of the necessary tools to build a championship-caliber program, and I’ve made a commitment to be the head coach at Michigan State for a very long time.”
The announcement comes less than a week before the No. 19 Spartans meet No. 16 Georgia in the Capital One Bowl on Thursday in Orlando, Fla.
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