Michigan’s basketball assistants are benefiting from the program’s recent success.
Jeff Meyer, Bacari Alexander and LaVall Jordan have agreed to contract extensions through the 2017-18 season, mlive.com reported today. All three previously received formal contracts in 2012, following the program’s first Big Ten title in 26 years.
This would mark a three-year extension for Jordan, whose contract was to run through 2015, and two-year extensions for Alexander and Meyer, whose deals were to run through 2016.
Jordan was slated to make $185,000 this upcoming season, Meyer $170,000 and Alexander $165,000. Each made $26,000 in performance bonuses for U-M’s outright Big Ten title and Elite Eight appearance this past season. Meyer received $25,000 as a stay bonus because he was still at U-M on April 1; the other two received $20,000 for their stay bonus.
Head coach John Beilein was rewarded last summer with a contract extension through 2019 and a raise that paid him $2.575 million this past season, including bonuses for winning the Big Ten title and reaching the Elite Eight. He will receive another $250,000 as a stay bonus next week.
Since the assistant coaches last received raises in 2012, U-M went to the NCAA title game in 2013 and won the Big Ten regular-season title by three games this past season.
The trio also has helped develop two first-round NBA draft picks — Trey Burke and Tim Hardaway Jr. last summer — and potentially three more in tonight’s NBA draft: Nik Stauskas, Mitch McGary and Glenn Robinson III.
Aside from Jordan being a finalist for the head coaching position at Butler last summer, none has been connected to jobs at other schools.
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