LAWRENCE — Kansas football’s coaching staff has seem some changes among its 10 lead assistants since the 2024 season came to an end.
Kansas assistant head coach/offensive coordinator Jeff Grimes left to become the offensive coordinator at Wisconsin, and the Jayhawks promoted co-offensive coordinator Jim Zebrowski.
Kansas also hired Matt Lubick, a former KU analyst who was the offensive coordinator at Nevada, to become the Jayhawks’ co-offensive coordinator/tight ends coach.
Kansas defensive coordinator Brian Borland announced his retirement, and the Jayhawks promoted co-defensive coordinator/cornerbacks coach D.K. McDonald. Kansas also promoted a current KU analyst, Brandon Shelby, to become the Jayhawks’ defensive backs coach.
Kansas provided an invoice dated Dec. 12, 2024, of $500,000 to Wisconsin for Grimes’ buyout, according to a public records request obtained by the Topeka Capital-Journal earlier this month. Zebrowski’s new base salary is $850,000, and Lubick’s base salary for the first year of his new deal is $550,000. McDonald’s salary now starts at $750,000, and Shelby’s base salary begins at $300,000.
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But how were Grimes, Zebrowski, Borland and McDonald being paid during the 2024 season? What about the other six assistant coaches head coach Lance Leipold had on staff?
Kansas football 2024 assistant coach compensation
This does not include potential bonuses.
- Jeff Grimes (assistant head coach/offensive coordinator): $800,000
- Brian Borland (defensive coordinator): $720,000
- D.K. McDonald (co-defensive coordinator/cornerbacks): $500,000
- Jim Zebrowski (co-offensive coordinator): $500,000
- Chris Simpson (assistant head coach/linebackers): $485,000
- Daryl Agpalsa (offensive line): $400,000
- Jim Panagos (defensive tackles): $385,000
- Terrence Samuel (wide receivers): $380,000
- Taiwo Onatolu (defensive ends/special teams coordinator): $360,000
- Jonathan Wallace (running backs): $310,000
That comes out to a total of $4,840,000 for Kansas football’s assistant coaches. More information can be found online on the USA TODAY assistant coach salary database for college football for how that total, and those individual salaries, stack up against other teams and coaches in the Big 12 Conference and elsewhere.
Jordan Guskey covers University of Kansas Athletics at The Topeka Capital-Journal. He is the National Sports Media Association’s sportswriter of the year for the state of Kansas for 2022. Contact him at jmguskey@gannett.com or on Twitter at @JordanGuskey.
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