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Assistant coaches on DJ Durkin's first Maryland football staff will make $2.82 million between them in 2016 – a slight increase from the $2.783 million paid to Randy Edsall's assistants last season.
Offensive and defensive coordinators Walt Bell and Scott Shafer will each make $500,000. Former Ball State head coach Pete Lembo is making more than any other position coach at $350,000, a pay cut from the $514,250 he made a season ago as Ball State's head coach.
| Coach | Position | Pay |
| Walt Bell | Offensive coordinator | $500,000 |
| Scott Shafer | Defensive coordinator | $500,000 |
| Pete Lembo | Tight ends/special teams | $350,000 |
| Dave Borbely | Offensive line | $340,000 |
| Chris Beatty | Wide receivers | $320,000 |
| Mike London | Defensive line | $300,000 |
| Anthony Tucker | Running backs | $185,000 |
| Aazaar Abdul-Rahim | Defensive backs | $170,000 |
| Matt Barnes | Linebackers | $155,000 |
| $2,820,000 |
The figures here come from each assistant's memorandum of understanding with Maryland, all obtained over the past few weeks through public records requests. These figures are base salary and guaranteed supplemental income, and they don't include bonuses that would come with conference championship and bowl performances.
Maryland's biggest source of assistant coach savings, year over year, comes from replacing offensive coordinator Mike Locksley ($898,940) with Bell, whose $500,000 salary is just 56 percent of Locksley's deal.
Maryland also made varying time commitments to its assistants under Durkin, who will himself make $2.4 million before any bonuses next season. Bell and Shafer are on three-year deals, while London is on a two-year deal. Several assistants, including defensive backs coach Aazaar Abdul-Rahim, are on one-year deals.
Special thanks to Laura Anderson Wright in Maryland's general counsel's office, who quickly and capably recovered documents over a period of weeks for Testudo Times and a handful of other media outlets.
We've gone ahead and compiled every single Maryland assistant's memorandum of understanding along with Durkin's in one PDF document. We've also included the MOU for strength coach Rick Court. Peruse them all at your leisure – they're public.
Every single Maryland football assistant coach's contract details