Reviewing Oklahoma football assistant coaches' contracts and salaries for 2024

Oklahoma head coach Brent Venables First-year offensive coordinator fired Seth Littrell on Sunday night after the Sooners' 34-9 home loss to South Carolina.

Last winter, Venables and defensive coordinator Ted Roof They parted ways amicably and Venables hired his protégé Zac Alley. Venables named 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 do it conduct a nationwide search for Littrell's replacement at the end of the season.

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

* QB Coach/Offensive Coordinator Seth Littrell: $1.1 million, contract until January 2027.
* LB Coach/Defensive Coordinator Zac Alley: $900,000, contract until January 2027
* TE Coach/Co-Offensive Coordinator Joe Jon Finley: from $520,000 to $900,000 and extended until January 2027
* DL Coach/Assistant Head Coach/Co-Defensive Coordinator Todd Bates: from $700,000 to $800,000, by January 2027
* CB Nickel Coach/Associate Head Coach of Defense/Co-Defensive Coordinator Jay Valai: from $700,000 to $750,000, extended until January 2026
* WR Coach/Passing Game Coordinator Emmett Jones: from $550,000 to $664,000, extended until January 2026
* Orienteering trainer Bill Bedenbaugh: from $870,000 to $1.05 million, extended until January 2027
* DE trainer Miguel Chavis: from $600,000 to $650,000, extended until January 2026
* RB coach DeMarco Murray: from $500,000 to $575,000, extended until January 2026
* DB carriage Brandon Hall: from $350,000 to $500,000, extended until January 2026
* Director of Sports Development and Strength and Conditioning Coach Jerry Schmidt: from $650,000 to $700,000 and extended until 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.