After a tough year without spring ball where they also had to face an all SEC schedule due to COVID, Arkansas athletic director Hunter Yurachek and head coach Sam Pittman have agreed to reset his contract.
“What I did for Coach is we just did a total reset of his contract,” Yurachek told the media and about 250 fans in attendance during a roadshow event at the Durand Center in Harrison, Arkansas.
“So he’s kind of starting from year one again this year. So in a sense, it’s given him a one-year extension."
The new deal will take him through the 2025 season, and will essentially roll over the initial five-year deal he signed back in December 2019, Whole Hog Sports shares.
Pittman is set to make $3 million annually and the new deal takes him through the 2025 season now.
The circumstances surrounding the 2020 season made it really tough to honestly evaluate the first-year head coach, Yurachek shared with Whole Hog Sports.
"I didn’t feel like for coach that to be evaluated on his first season without spring practice, playing an SEC-only schedule was the appropriate measure for him. So him and I agreed, let’s just reset your contract, really to kind of like this is your first year coming up this year. He and I both executed that this past week.”
Yurachek also shared at the event, that after the coaching staff took COVID pay cuts last fall, they were back to full-pay as of April 1.
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