Report: Oklahoma Releases Contract Terms for Jeff Lebby, Ted Roof

New coach Brent Venables hired Lebby and Roof to coordinate the OU offense and defense, respectively, and was able to get them paid.

John E. Hoover | Dec 17, 2021

Oklahoma will pay new offensive coordinator Jeff Lebby $1.8 million in 2022, making him one of the highest paid assistant coaches in all of college football.

That’s according to a report Friday in The Oklahoman, who obtained contract details for Lebby and new defensive coordinator Ted Roof through an open records request.

Lebby, an OU grad, will get a $100,000 annual raise over the course of his three-year, $5.7 million contract, pushing his salary to $1.9 million in 2023 and $2 million in 2024. He reportedly made $1.2 million from Ole Miss this season, and had a $750,000 buyout.

Roof also gets a three-year, $3.45 million deal. Roof’s salary in 2022 will be $1.1 million, and he’s scheduled for raises to $1.15 million in 2023 and $1.2 million in 2024.

Should the Sooners win the national championship, both coordinators would add a $90,000 bonus.

Lebby's deal would make him the highest-paid offensive coordinator in the nation, surpassing Kevin Wilson's $1.4 million salary this year at Ohio State. Tony Elliott made $2.215 million this year from Clemson, but is now the head coach at Virginia.

Published Dec 17, 2021

JOHN E. HOOVER

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.