Matt Entz finalizes first contract as North Dakota State head coach (Featured)

Matt Entz has finalized his first contract as North Dakota State's head coach, according to The Forum.

Entz has inked a 5-year deal that will pay him a $300,000 base salary plus $80,000 in additional compensation. With bonuses, Entz could make $419,500 in 2019. The bonus structure breaks out as follows:

-- Eight wins: $7,500
-- Missouri Valley Football Conference championship: $10,000
-- Hosting an FCS playoff game: $4,000
-- Playing an away FCS playoff game: $2,500
-- FCS National Championship loss: $10,000
-- FCS National Championship win: $15,000

Entz's assistants have a similar bonus structure: $1,500 for hitting the 8-win mark; $1,750 for each FCS playoff home game; $1,000 for each FCS playoff away game, $1,750 for reaching the FCS National Championship and an additional $500 for winning it.

“There really wasn’t any negotiating,” Entz told the paper. “I didn’t feel like I had anywhere to negotiate. I’m a first-time head football coach at what I consider one of the premier football schools in the country. I would have signed it regardless.”

North Dakota State will be the first head coaching job at any level for the 46-year-old. He was named NDSU's head coach on Dec. 13, after it was announced Chris Klieman would leave at the conclusion of the Bison's in-progress season to take the Kansas State job.

Klieman made around $425,000 in base salary for his final season in Fargo; he'll make a $2.3 million base salary in 2019 at K-State.

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