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Dawn Staley, the women’s basketball coach at South Carolina, may be eligible for a sizable salary following her team’s record undefeated season and third national championship. When asked about a potential extension for Staley, USC athletic director Ray Tanner told The State, “Certainly we’ve had some conversations since the season ended—about her future, too.”
Although a timeline for the completion of any extension is unknown, preparations for the 2024–25 season start in roughly four months. It’s reasonable to assume that Staley will become the highest-paid women’s collegiate basketball coach if she signs a new deal. On April 16, she began the fourth year of a seven-year relationship. Her current contract, which expires after the 2027–2028 season, ties her with Geno Auriemma of UConn for the second-highest salary of any coach in sports. They are both behind Kim Mulkey of LSU, who in September inked the largest deal in the annals of women’s collegiate basketball history: a 10-year, $32 million extension.
Along with winning a third national championship and finishing the program’s first ever undefeated season (38-0), Staley was named national coach of the year for the second time in a row in 2024.
Tanner remarked, “I didn’t think we’d lose many games because they were so good and she’s iconic.” “Her coach status is Hall of Fame.” To manage the table, though? She ran the table, after all. One of the most amazing things that happened to me while I was an athletic director was that.
HISTORY OF STALEY CONTRACT WITH GAMECOCKS By 2021, when Staley’s seven-year, $22.4 million extension was authorized, she had surpassed Mulkey, who had earned $2.505 million in her Tigers debut season, to become the highest-paid coach in the SEC. Starting in 2021–22, Staley’s compensation was $2.9 million; it increased to $3.1 million in the most recent season; and it is expected to rise to $3.5 million in 2027–2028.
Prior to that most recent extension, Staley’s contract, which had a maximum annual salary of $2.1 million, guaranteed him $1.8 million for the 2021–2022 campaign, excluding any bonuses for postseason success.
Additionally, in 2018, South Carolina began making yearly contributions of $300,000 to a split-dollar life insurance scheme, for a total of $1.5 million plus interest, which on September 21, 2022, became Staley’s. When she was first hired in 2008, her annual salary was $650,000. Over the course of the last three seasons, she and the Gamecocks have amassed a 109-3 record.
Dawn Stanley’s current contract, salary breakdown First year: October 1, 2021–April 15, 2022; $2.9 million Year 2: From April 16, 2022 until April 15, 2023, $3 million Year 3: From April 16, 2023 to April 15, 2024, $3.1 million Year 4: From April 16, 2024 to April 15, 2025, $3.2 million Year 5: from April 16, 2025 to April 15, 2026, $3.3 million Year 6: from April 16, 2026 to April 15, 2027, or $3.4 million $3.5 million in Year 7 (April 16, 2027).
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