Vols' Heupel signs extension, big raise

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🗓️ 24 January 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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GoVols247's Ben McKee and Patrick Brown discuss Tennessee football coach Josh Heupel's contract extension and large raise, which was announced Tuesday afternoon.

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0:00.0	What's going to happen tonight? What's going to happen?
0:05.0	What's going to happen? We're going to whoop this. Welcome into the Go Balls 247 podcast, a breaking news edition I am
0:24.6	Ben McKee and not West Rucker for two reasons. A.
0:29.0	West is too busy arguing with Grant Williams at Admiral Schofield
0:32.1	on Twitter at the moment, and B, he's just too busy arguing with Grant and Admiral at the moment. That's all you need to know. But I am joined by Patrick Brown and it is a breaking news edition because Josh Heeple has secured the bag.
0:46.7	He has received a hefty raise, a nice extension.
0:51.2	He will be Tennessee's football coach unless he is fired I guess or if he were to take another job
0:56.4	but the new contract extension makes him the head coach through the
1:00.5	2028 season and through January of 2029 he gets an increase of 5 million
1:09.2	dollars on his salary now making 9 million a year and there's only four coaches in the SEC making more
1:15.3	than him and that is Nick Sabin Kirby Smart, Jimbo Fisher and Brian Kelly Patrick,
1:21.2	a very well-deserved raise for Josh Heeple.
1:25.0	Yes, Ben and I think it's telling that we're what a little more than three weeks out from
1:30.1	the Orange Bowl and Tennessee and Josh Highpool have wrapped this up.
1:33.3	You know, he got an extension in a raise after his first season, but that one wasn't
1:38.6	fully legally done until the end of July start of August.
1:43.0	So neither side wanting to waste much time getting this done.
1:48.0	And you sort of hit on it, the jump from...
1:51.0	It's pretty crazy to me that when they hired him and as we're recording this it's almost two years to the day that Josh Hypel was introduced with the salary of 4 million now he's had 9 million.
2:00.0	I know that that figure is going to blow some people's minds out there, but as I wrote in something I posted on the site on Monday, it was going to take 8 billion just to get him in the top half of the league. I mean, the salaries in this conference have skyrocketed and you know
2:16.4	Hypo was at 5 million last year and a couple of the guys behind him got raises
2:22.0	Eli Drinkowitz got one then lost to Kentucky.
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