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Reviewing Oklahoma Football Assistant Coaches' Contracts, Salaries for 2024

Sooners head coach Brent Venables fired offensive coordinator Seth Littrell on Sunday. Here are the contract terms and salaries for Littrell and the rest of Venables' staff.

John E. Hoover

Former Oklahoma offensive coordinator Seth Littrell
Former Oklahoma offensive coordinator Seth Littrell / BRYAN TERRY/THE OKLAHOMAN / USA TODAY NETWORK
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Oklahoma head coach Brent Venables fired first-year offensive coordinator Seth Littrell on Sunday night after the Sooners' 34-9 home loss to South Carolina.

Last winter, Venables and defensive coordinator Ted Roof mutually agreed to part ways, and Venables hired his protege in Zac Alley. Venables elevated tight ends coach and co-offensive coordinator Joe Jon Finley to offensive coordinator and offensive analyst Kevin Johns to quarterbacks coach and co-offensive coordinator on an interim basis.

Venables will conduct a national search for Littrell's replacement at season's end.

Here are the contract terms and salaries of OU's 10 assistant coaches, strength coach Jerry Schmidt and new special teams analyst Doug Deakin going into this season after new deals were approved in March by the University of Oklahoma Board of Regents:

Oklahoma Assistant Coaches Contracts

* QB coach/offensive coordinator Seth Littrell: $1.1m, contract through January 2027.
* LB coach/defensive coordinator Zac Alley: $900,000, contract through January 2027
* TE coach/co-offensive coordinator Joe Jon Finley: from $520,000 to $900,000 and extended through January 2027
* DL coach/assistant head coach/co-defensive coordinator Todd Bates: from $700,000 to $800,000, through January 2027
* CB-Nickel coach/assistant head coach for defense/co-defensive coordinator Jay Valai: from $700,000 to $750,000, extended through January 2026
* WR coach/passing game coordinator Emmett Jones: from $550,000 to $664,000, extended through January 2026
* OL coach Bill Bedenbaugh: from $870,000 to $1.05 million, extended through January 2027
* DE coach Miguel Chavis: from $600,000 to $650,000, extended through January 2026
* RB coach DeMarco Murray: from $500,000 to $575,000, extended through January 2026
* DB coach Brandon Hall: from $350,000 to $500,000, extended through January 2026
* Director of Sports Enhancement and Strength and Conditioning coach Jerry Schmidt: from $650,000 to $700,000 and extended through January 2026
* Special teams analyst Doug Deakin: Received a one-year, $180,000 contract.

NOTE: Bedenbaugh and Bates received contract extensions and Alley and Deakin received new contracts in March. All other contracts were approved by the OU Board of Regents in January.

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John E. Hoover
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.

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