New College of Arizona head coach Ben Loorz will start his tenure main the Wildcats with a $165,000 base wage that can climb to $175,000 by the 2028-2029 season as a part of a 5-year, $845,000 contract.
That’s inside vary of the newest employment settlement for outgoing head coach Augie Busch, who had a base wage of $175,000 per 12 months in his most up-to-date two-year contract that ran from July 1, 2022 by way of June 30, 2024. These have been the sixth and seventh years of Busch’s time period as head coach of this system.
Loorz’s deal additionally comes with reimbursement for shifting prices, as much as 10% of his base wage and a $15,000 buyout of his contract at UNLV.
Loorz’s incentives are just like Busch’s as nicely. They embrace as much as $7,500 per staff for an ideal multi-year APR and as much as $7,500 per staff for GPA, with a most educational efficiency bonus of as much as $15,000 in any given 12 months. Probably the most-recently obtainable information point out that the top coach would have acquired the utmost bonus in current seasons.
Loorz would additionally obtain $5,000 for every Large 12 staff title; plus $5,000 for every NCAA prime 10 staff end, $7,500 for every NCAA prime 4 staff end, or $15,000 for every NCAA Championship.
Arizona’s final prime 10 finishes on the NCAA Championships have been in 2014, the place the boys completed seventh and the ladies completed eighth.
Different perks embrace a automobile stipend or university-provided automotive; free tickets for Arizona varsity dwelling competitions, journey prices for his household to the NCAA Championships, and a rustic membership or well being membership membership.
Termination/Buyouts
- If the college have been to terminate the contract with trigger due to violations of NCAA or Large 12 laws, Loorz would owe $100,000. This turns into particularly essential due to quite a lot of points with NCAA violations for the college, together with two NCAA investigations and sanctions for violations throughout the diving program since 2017 and vital points throughout the basketball program that included the arrest of an assistant coach.
- If the college terminates the settlement with out trigger, it owes any accrued incentives, plus the rest of the bottom wage – mitigated by any wage earned by the coach in a brand new job.
- A buyout clause if Loorz terminates the contract early and accepts a job inside 12 months would require him to pay $82,500 if terminated within the first two years of the contract, $41,200 in years three and 4, and $25,600 if terminated in 12 months 5.
Loorz takes over an Arizona staff that has been struggling in current seasons, with the boys’s staff coming off recording their lowest end since 1976 in 2023, inserting thirty second on the Males’s NCAA Championships. The Wildcats have been twenty seventh in 2024, although 13 of 19 factors got here from diving.
The ladies’s staff didn’t rating a degree on the 2024 NCAA Championships and has solely scored a mixed 7.5 swimming factors over the previous 4 nationwide championship meets.
