“I love the state, love the people, coaches and kids, and I try to take care of them”.
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Kill has turned in back-to-back impressive eight-win seasons, two of the just 19 seasons of at least eight wins in the program’s long history.
Interim Director of Athletics Beth Goetz expressed similar enthusiasm about the U and Kill finalizing the contract extension.
In February, Kill received a one-year contract extension through the 2018 season and an annual salary raise from $1.2 million to $2.1 million in 2014.
According to the contract amendment released Friday, Kill’s base salary remains $600,000 through 2019-20, with supplemental compensation increasing from $900,000 to $1.2 million starting this year.
“We want to win a Big Ten championship”, junior quarterback Mitch Leidner recently said, via Sporting News.
Kill, who turns 54 later this month, is 25-26 in four seasons with the Gophers. “We have had a lot of support here and felt like it was the right thing to do”.
Jerry Kill has the Minnesota football program going in a pretty great direction, and the school has rewarded him for his rapid turnaround job. “I’m very appreciative of everybody”.
In the past two seasons, the Gophers have played for the Big Ten West Division title and lost to arch-rival Wisconsin.
Kill leads the most tenured coaching staff in the nation, as his nine assistants and strength and conditioning coach has served under him for a combined 141 years (counting the upcoming 2015 season).
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CSN Chicago notes that Kill has had a knack for sending Gophers to the NFL.
