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USA Today
7 hours ago
- Business
- USA Today
Arizona State football coach Kenny Dillingham earned record bonus by passing Jim Harbaugh
Arizona State football coach Kenny Dillingham earned record bonus by passing Jim Harbaugh Show Caption Hide Caption ASU football coach Kenny Dillingham discusses significance of Pat's Run ASU football coach Kenny Dillingham discusses how important Pat's Run is to the ASU community on April 12, 2025. The bonuses include $2.604 million for on-field performance and at least $502,500 for academic achievements. Arizona State's Kenny Dillingham has earned more bonus money in a single school year than any football coach at a public school. Dillingham will collect at least $3.056 million in on-field and academic performance-related bonuses for the 2024-25 school year, which surpasses the $3 million that Michigan paid John Harbaugh for winning the national championship in 2023-24, according to a database of public college coaches' contracts maintained by USA TODAY Sports. Dillingham received $2.604 million in football-related bonuses after the Sun Devils finished the season with an 11-3 record, won the Big 12 Conference and earned the No. 4 seed in the College Football Playoff. Arizona State lost its quarterfinal game against Texas in the Peach Bowl finished No. 7 in the final US LBM Top 25 Coaches Poll. Dillingham will also receive at least $502,500 in academic-related bonuses for the team's Academic Progress Rate, Graduation Success Rate, Grade Point Average and enrolling three new scholarship student athletes in the Barrett Honors College. This extra half-million dollars pushes Dillingham past Harbaugh and into first place on the list for most bonus money in a single school year since 2019, when USA TODAY Sports began keeping track of these payments. Most college coaches' contracts, acquired by USA TODAY Sports through public records requests, do not include such lucrative bonus incentives for academic performance. Indiana's Curt Cignetti ($1.5 million) and Iowa State's Matt Campbell ($1.35 million) earned the second- and third-largest bonuses among college football coaches during the 2024-25 school year, and neither has academic performance-related incentives in their contracts on file with USA TODAY Sports. Dillingham gave $300,000 of his bonus to his staff, the school confirmed. The coach earned a $200,000 bonus for winning a ninth regular-season game, which he distributed among more than 20 staff members around Thanksgiving, as has been reported, and later distributed another $100,000, which has not been previously reported. Dillingham's compensation was among the lowest in Big 12 Conference Dillingham's annual compensation in 2024 was $3.95 million, which ranked 11th out of 12 football coaches at public schools in the Big 12 Conference and served as the basis for many of his on-field bonuses. (Baylor and TCU are private schools, are not subject to open-records laws and do not release their coaches' contracts.) Dillingham's annual compensation increased to $5.8 million in 2025, after his contract was renegotiated and approved by the Arizona Board of Regents. Dillingham collects more than $2.6 million in football bonuses Dillingham received $2.604 million in bonuses for on-field performance. ∎ $200,000 for the ninth regular-season win. ∎ $300,000 for the 10th regular-season win. ∎ $395,000 for appearing in the conference championship game. (10% of annual salary.) ∎ $395,000 for winning the conference championship game. (10% of annual salary.) ∎ $1,185,000 for an appearance in the College Football Playoff. (30% of annual salary.) ∎ $79,000 for the top-10 final ranking. (2% of annual salary.) ∎ $50,000 for being named Big 12 Coach of the Year. Dillingham to receive more than $500,000 in academic bonuses Dillingham will receive at least $502,500 for his student-athletes' academic performance. ∎ $290,000 for the football program's multi-year APR score of 973 out of 1,000 that was released this spring. (5% of his updated 2025 compensation of $5.8 million, the school confirmed, for a multi-year APR score of at least 969. This bonus would have doubled for a multi-year APR score over 974.) APR measures the eligibility and retention of each student-athlete for each academic term. ∎ $100,000 for a team GSR above 86%. (The GSR was 87%.) GSR reflects the NCAA's calculation of the percentage of student-athletes on a team who graduate within six years of entering college. ∎ $62,500 for team GPA equal to or greater than 2.80. (This is the amount Dillingham received during the 2023-24 school year, when the team GPA was 2.84. The 2024-25 team GPA is calculated after summer school. This annual bonus jumps to $100,000 for a 2.90 GPA and to $150,000 for a 3.0 GPA.) ∎ $50,000 for having between three and six new scholarship student athletes enroll in the Barrett Honors College. The Arizona State football team doubled the number of football scholarship student-athletes enrolled, adding three newcomers to increase the total to six. The group is comprised of sophomore defensive back Keith Abney II, sophomore running back Kyson Brown, freshman punter Kanyon Floyd, freshman linebacker Martell Hughes, freshman linebacker Isaiah Iosefa and freshman quarterback Cameron Dyer. How Kenny Dillingham edged Harbaugh's record bonus Harbaugh received $3 million in bonuses for the 2023-24 school year, when Michigan won the national championship, the university confirmed. Harbaugh was eligible to receive up to another $150,000 for an APR bonus, which would have kept him atop the all-time single-year bonus list, but the amount and whether it was paid were at the school's discretion, according to his contract. Harbaugh was not paid the APR bonus for that season, Michigan confirmed, because the payment is made in the spring and he had already resigned to become head coach of the Los Angeles Chargers. The non-payment ensures Dillingham will receive the most bonus money in a single school year.
USA Today
15-04-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Former Arizona Cardinals LB Zack Walz reflects on the legacy of Pat Tillman
Former Arizona Cardinals LB Zack Walz reflects on the legacy of Pat Tillman Zack Walz recalls his hero of a teammate Pat Tillman's name is always embedded in the minds of the people of Arizona, but in April, it's especially poignant. It was on April 19, 1998, that the Arizona State standout was selected by the Arizona Cardinals in the seventh round of the draft, 226 overall. It was on April 22, 2004, that Tillman was tragically slain by friendly fire in Afghanistan. And it's around those dates every year since 2005 that Pat's Run takes place to benefit the Pat Tillman Foundation, which now has close to 1,000 Tillman Scholars making differences in people's lives. One of those is coincidentally April Krowell, an Army veteran with a PhD in psychology from Ball State, who spent time in Iraq and now specializes in the neuropsychological and psychological assessment of adults and older adults with a wide variety of neurological disorders, medical diagnoses, and psychiatric conditions. When asked how life-changing being a Tillman Scholar has been, she says simply, '100 percent.' That number would be an apt way to describe Tillman in every aspect of his life in and beyond football. This year's run was on April 12 filling the streets of Tempe with more than 30,000 runners and walkers, and the night before at a welcome VIP event inside Mountain America Stadium, teammate Zack Walz reflected on the man Tillman was and what it was like to be around him. A linebacker from Dartmouth, Walz was picked one round before him with the 158th overall choice in that '98 draft and he jokes (maybe) that it was an example of the team's poor personnel evaluations. He and Tillman played high school football in northern California and were opponents in a senior-year all-star game. Walz said it was immediately apparent how special Tillman was. He said, 'Pat set himself as a leader on that team in the first two weeks of our rookie training camp. That was undeniable. Everybody saw that. He was this intellectual leader. He's just tough as nails. He doesn't take (expletive) from anybody, right? But he's so likable and lovable. And he's always challenging the people around him to do better. 'Even the coaches. He'd argue with (defensive backs coach) Larry Marmie all the time. 'Larry, shouldn't we do this?' And I know the coaches love him, right? They know this guy's so invested that he's actually challenging him.' The stories always come in cascades from people that knew Tillman and were close to him. Walz recalled, 'He would come in after a two-hour practice, 115 degrees. We'd all be icing, getting ready for lunch and our meeting and going home. And we had this water tank with a treadmill in it. And it was up to your knees and it shoots jets at you. And it's like resistance running in water. It's harder than running outside. He would come in from practice and I'd see him in there an hour and half into lunch.' Asked what he was doing, Walz said Tillman answered, 'I'm running a marathon as soon as the season ends. He was already working towards that. Those are the things that were unheard of. You didn't see that in people. I look at my experience; I tell my mom this all the time: I truly believe God's purpose for me was to be around him while his life unfolded so I could watch and I could learn.' It's almost eerie that the duo's NFL careers both ended after the 2001 season when Tillman enlisted in the Army and Walz never played another down. He said there was an epiphany when Tillman told him of his decision not long after 9/11. 'I will tell you, I was so hung up in the dollars and cents of where am I going to sign,' Walz said. 'Where am going to make my next million dollars? But I was so hung up on, am I going to sign? And when he called me and told me that, I remember my life, it came with such a calm, and things were instantly forced into perspective. Of course I still wanted to play football, but it was just like, my motivation to do it wasn't the same. 'Because I just felt there was so much else I could accomplish. The thing is, you're doing something and then you watch him doing it and you realize the way he's doing it typically was always better. And I say he was this indirect teacher where just watching him interact with, navigate people.' Walz said there was something singular about that. 'He was always more interested in learning about you,' Walz said. 'People were waiting to talk to him and ask him questions. And he'd be like, no, we're not talking about me. Tell me what you do. I had a friend who was a plumber, and Pat talked to him for 30 minutes. And he's asking about all these things he's got going on. And he was trying to close some big contract. The next time Pat saw him, or that my friend saw Pat, was a year later. 'Pat went up to him and literally asked him how that deal went. He remembered. Those were the little details that he took from everybody. He was a genuine listener. He cared about people. He took something from everybody. And he was relatable, approachable. He always put himself on the same, I don't want to say playing field, but the same level. And that's just an art, right? Nowadays everybody's got cameras, right? 'You always question when somebody's doing something, are they doing it because they know they're on camera somewhere? Back then, there were no cameras. And Pat was doing these things when nobody was looking. He wasn't doing it for fanfare, he wasn't doing it for a conversation for people to say, 'Oh, he does this.' 'That's the way he was. That's what he embodied.' Walz is non-stop talking about his friend. Reflecting on playing in the NFL, even if it was only four years, he said, 'For all of us, it was like the pinnacle of our achievement. That's where my career ended. For him, it was just a stepping stone to do something higher and greater. And that's how he carried himself. Yes, he took it very seriously and he worked harder than most people I've seen working. He always had a chip on his shoulder. He was such an intellectual. He was a consummate learner. But it was like, that was not the end-all. 'And that's really what you come to appreciate with him. And it is important to carry on his story. When you talk about carrying the message on to our younger generations, I think parents, if they're not telling their children who he was and what he stood for and what he embodied, they're doing their kids a disservice.' 'He was a man of action. He was a man of example. And you think about all those little stories and the things that he was doing when nobody was looking. That's what made him great ... among a million other things.' Walz goes to another level after being told about the mosaic at the Pro Football Hall of Fame that has about 500 football cards of Hall of Famers and ... one of Pat Tillman that the Hall decided to keep in the display because of what he represented. Noting that Tillman was just coming into his own after four seasons, Walz said, 'He didn't have the speed of a natural starting NFL safety, but that guy outworked everybody. He played with a bigger chip on his shoulder than anybody. If he had played another four years, he'd be a perennial All-Pro. And I believe that. He was starting to turn the culture of our organization. Imagine if he played another five years. I mean he could have played 15 years for sure. No question about it. 'The intellect is undeniable. And then you put all that together with a little bit of extra experience. The guy would have been a legendary safety.' However, Walz understands there was more to Pat Tillman. Infinitely more. He said, 'But then you think about that guy and it just wouldn't fulfill him. It just wouldn't fulfill him. And I think about it like I missed out on it. But again, then you think at the end of the day, that's me. That's my dreams. That wasn't his. His were much loftier. And I want to just say: more service to the greater good.' Get more Cardinals and NFL coverage from Cards Wire's Jess Root and others by listening to the latest on the Rise Up, See Red podcast. Subscribe on Spotify, YouTube or Apple podcasts.
Yahoo
12-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Pat's Run 2025: What to know about road, freeway closures and transit detours
Pat's Run is back for its 21st year! The annual race honoring former Arizona State University football player and Army Ranger Pat Tillman returns to Tempe on April 12. Hosted by the Pat Tillman Foundation, the event draws nearly 30,000 participants of all ages and skill levels each year. The 4.2-mile course begins near Mountain America Stadium, winds through the streets of Tempe, crosses two bridges, and finishes inside the stadium. As with any large-scale event, traffic delays and road closures are expected. The City of Tempe announced that several local streets will be closed or have restricted access, and public transit routes will be detoured before, during, and after the race. Here's what you need to know if you're planning to be in Tempe the weekend of April 12. Packard Drive will be closed between Sixth Street and Rio Salado Parkway beginning April 11 at 4 p.m. until April 12 at noon. Sixth Street will be closed in both directions between Rural Road and Veterans Way. Alpha Drive will be closed in both directions between University Drive and Sixth Street. Rio Salado Parkway will be closed in both directions between Rural Road and Ash Avenue. Northbound Mill Avenue will be closed between Third Street and Washington Street/Curry Road. Curry Road will be closed in both directions between Mill and College avenues. Lakeview Drive will be closed in both directions at Washington Street. Southbound College Avenue will be closed between Curry Road and Gilbert Drive. Eastbound Gilbert Drive will be closed between College Avenue and Scottsdale Road. Southbound Scottsdale/Rural Road will be closed between Curry Road and University Drive. Northbound Scottsdale/Rural Road will be closed between University Drive and Curry Road. Westbound Rio Salado Parkway will be closed at McClintock Drive. The eastbound Loop 202 off-ramp at Scottsdale Road will close. The westbound Loop 202 on-ramp at Scottsdale Road will close. The westbound Loop 202 off-ramp at Scottsdale Road will be restricted to northbound traffic only on Scottsdale Road. Loop 101 closures: Weekend construction shuts down 6-mile stretch in north Scottsdale Streetcar service will be limited to operate between Dorsey Lane/Apache Boulevard and Ninth Street/Mill Avenue. 48 Northbound: Regular route to Tempe Transportation Center, exit east to Fifth St./College Ave., south on College Ave. to University Drive, east on University Drive to McClintock Drive, north on McClintock Drive to Rio Salado Parkway, east on Rio Salado Parkway, to resume regular route. 48 Southbound: Regular route to McClintock Dr./Rio Salado Parkway, south on McClintock Drive to University Drive, west on University Drive to College Ave., north on College Ave. to Fifth St., west on Fifth St. to Tempe Transportation Center, west on Fifth St. to resume regular route. 72 Northbound: Regular route to Rural Road/University Drive, east on University Drive to McClintock Drive, north on McClintock Drive to Curry Road, west on Curry Road to Scottsdale Road, north on Scottsdale Road to resume regular route. 72 Southbound: Regular route to Scottsdale Road/Curry Road, east on Curry Road to McClintock Drive, south on McClintock Drive to University Drive, west on University Drive to Rural Road, south on Rural Road to resume regular route. Orbit Earth Eastbound: Route begins at Curry Road/College Ave. Orbit Earth Westbound: Regular route to Weber Drive/Scottsdale Road, south on Scottsdale Road to Curry Road, west on Curry Road to College Ave., north on College Ave. to layover at College Ave./Curry Road timepoint. This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Highway, street closures and bus detours for the 2025 Pat's Run
