Bill comes due for Kansas State’s success in football, men’s basketball | Podcast
The price for success in college sports can be measured through coaches’ contracts. Kansas State is happily in the process of paying that price.
After a football season led by Chris Klieman that included the first Big 12 championship in a decade, and a men’s basketball season that had the Wildcats, picked last in the conference, reach the Elite Eight under first-year coach Jerome Tang, it’s time for K-State to show its gratitude.
Klieman and Tang are in line for extensions and raises that should lift them into the upper half of Big 12 salaries.
“If you look at all of our salaries, we’ve typically been towards the bottom half of the Big 12,” K-State athletic director Gene Taylor told beat writer Kellis Robinett. “And that’s where we compare ourselves. We don’t really compare ourselves with the Big Ten and how the SEC is doing. How are we salary-wise for coaches and staff within the Big 12? I think from an owner’s perspective, we want to be up in the upper half, if not better.”
On today’s SportsBeat KC, Robinett discusses Kansas State’s next moves on the contract and salary front — and other topics relating to the Wildcats, including whether the 2022-23 year in sports was the best in school history.
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Kansas State Wildcats working on bigger contracts for Chris Klieman and Jerome Tang
This story was originally published April 19, 2023 at 12:31 PM.