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UNLV Pays New Head Football Coach Dan Mullen $3.5 Million A Year For Five Years


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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer

LAS VEGAS, Nevada — New UNLV head coach Dan Mullen signed a five-year contract that pays him $3.5 million a year, according to his contract released by UNLV to LVSportsBiz.com Monday.

Mullen, a former Florida and Mississippi State head coach with more than 100 wins on his head coaching resume, replaces Barry Odom, who left UNLV after two years for a lucrative six-year, $39 million deal at Purdue of the Big Ten.

Mullen’s $3.5 million annual salary breaks down this way: $400,000 as a base salary and $3.1 million for media appearances. Take a look:

There are incentive payments, too, like $100,000 for winning the national championship and $50,000 for winning the Mountain West Conference championship.

There’s also an evaluation breakdown listed in the contract:

Odom, who led the Rebels to a 9-5 record in 2023 and a 10-3 record in 2024, was paid $1.75 million a year. UNLV could not compete with Purdue’s salary offer, which was nearly $40 million for six years.


 

Alan Snel: Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.
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