Arkansas announces a raise for DC Barry Odom, contract details for new assistants
After a strong performance in his first season at Arkansas, defensive coordinator Barry Odom drew significant interest for similar positions at LSU and Texas.
Following that interest, Odom reportedly received a raise and contract extension to stay with the Razorbacks through the 2023 season. His new contract is worth $1.75 million per year, according to Matt Jones of Whole Hog Sports. Odom previously was under contract through the 2022 season at an annual salary of $1.3 million. He received a $100,000 raise last year after Arkansas head coach Sam Pittman said Odom had turned down interest from an unspecified SEC program.
The new compensation is the highest ever for an Arkansas assistant coach, as Odom surpassed the $1.5 million the Razorbacks paid former defensive coordinator John Chavis in 2019.
Arkansas also finalized contracts for new assistant coaches Jermial Ashley (defensive line), Cody Kennedy (tight ends) and Michael Scherer (linebackers).
Ashley and and Kennedy will be paid $300,000 per year, while Kennedy is on a two-year contract and Ashley’s agreement is for one year. Scherer, who was an analyst for the Razorbacks last season, is set to make $175,000 annually on a one-year agreement.
Arkansas’ 10 full-time assistant coaches are set to make a program-record $5.375 million in 2021 — a 2.9 percent increase over their initial total pay last season.
Glad to see we stepped up and gave him a raise. It really shows Odom were serious about keeping him here until that next HC job comes calling. Arkansas didn’t make any splashy hires but I’m trusting the direction Pittman and Odom have us going. WPS
Keep Odom right where he is and guarantee Mizzou a victory every year. Thank you Arkansas! Woo pig!
Yeah, your defense performed so well against them. Ha.
Sam Pittman was a great pick, Odom was a good choice and they just beat MIZZOU in this year’s recruiting class. Arkansas is back!
Missouri cant even keep the top kids in state but dont worry at least you have the ceiling of being the 3rd best team in East now.
Yea and you better hope it stays that way or we might never see Arky beat Missouri again…what are we at now? 5 years in a row?… And I don’t see Arkansas doing much better locking down the borders even though over the past 5-7 years the quality of the top MO players has been exponentially greater than whats coming out of the state of Arkansas. Missouri has already rode the coach Odom train to the definition of mediocrity. Don’t get me wrong, I like Odom as a DC however Arkansas is going to have to beat Missouri at least once this decade before you all start talking all that mess down there.
Oh that worm will turn. Missouri will never get to be that dominate over anyone. It will happen. It always does. Last years game was a who-had-the-ball-last.
Haha down there? Yea last time I looked nobody is running to Mizzou for anything sports related. If you want to be factual Arkansas has more success and it’s not even close.
Hey glad, Mizzou is already that dominate over Arkansas. Look it up.
ozark, if your definition of success is losing to Mizzou every year, I agree, you’re successful.
“Arkansas is coming off a season where the Razorbacks won three conference games for the first time since 2016.” LOL
Still building up that rivalry you both need so much. You wont get it anywhere else.
Understood. Hey, Saban thinking about retiring soon?
Relax Ozark. We’re gonna have to actually win a football game over Missouri sometime before we talk about what their ceiling is
Football is just one of the sports we play Eastwood. A measuring stick of dominance one school has over another implies across several sports not just one.
We understand you guys are the curling champs of the south. No dispute there. Besides football and basketball and wrestling what sports are there?
It must be hard to accept Mizzou is the bottom of the barrel success you bring to the SEC. You dont compete for the Learfield Cup you compete to stay off probation.
Ozark, the only sport that matters is football. You’re just like Vandy. Do you have a girl kicker lined up next season just in case?
Well said by the Vanderbilt of the West :)
Without the same level of academics : ) )
Tony dont be sad maybe you can get a complimentary participation ribbon to out in that empty trophy case.
@Guinny dont talk about academics now cause poor Ole Mizzou is not even middle of the pack in the SEC. You have nothing to offer on your campus that there isnt a better version of somewhere else. It must be sad when football season is over since you only have Gymnastics and Volleyball to root for.
@Ozarian. That you even know Mizzou has a gymnastics team and a volleyball team tells me you’re looking for any win against Mizzou to root for. As far as campuses go, my daughter visited her cousin and she was impressed with your campus but your comment on there being a better campus out there somewhere well unless you have the number one campus any school is subject to that insult. We’ll just keep working on it. After all, can’t have Hawgs losing in a morbid post-dystopian world campus when you visit. We’ll plant more flowers :) And on academics were in the upper percentile of the SEC. Typical Mizzou though, not upper echelon but above .500.
The fact you dont realize this is the SEC and it’s a given that if any school would have these sports. Dont talk percentages when your known to cheat for students to play and don’t even have the respect to keep the self imposed bowl ban your coached flipped on quicker than an over easy egg. Columbia is by no way the worst campus but its not the place kids are running to by any means.
@Ozarian, Arkansas is Santa Claus when it comes to handing out free ride academic scholarships in the St. Louis area so I know the quality of college student attending Arkansas so I’m not disputing in anyway the quality academics/student attending Arkansas. I would imagine a fair number of kids at Arkansas were directed to run to that campus by their kids. My niece was. And take the cheap shot towards Yolanda, an overweight woman who was hoping to get laid by some young studs. If you can’t figure out that was something she initiated without anyone’s approval at Mizzou well there’s nothing to say there. As far as bowl bans we haven’t been in one since 2018. Did we appeal the NCAA’s decision? Absolutely. It was BS and you would be amongst the few to say differently. Offering a self imposed penalty of any sort is an offer to mitigate penalties that may be directed at if you fight and lose. If Mizzou or any school thought that the NCAA was Solomnesque in it’s ability to deliver justice, one could fight when they thought they were in the right. That’s just not there as long as the NCAA continues to show any sort of dispensing justice linked to any sort of logic. I honestly hope not Arkansas nor any other school in the SEC has to deal with them (Yes, UT is there and because you can’t discern from the NCAA’s past actions any probable course of action, we don’t know if they’ll be SMU’ed or slapped lighter on the wrist than MU).
Know it’s long but just got back from Louisville where we did a single barrel tasting. You got my first response.
Well put Guinny. I will make an exception when it comes to you for now and will forgo my bashing of Mizzou when we converse on SDS.
P.S. Man that sounds very nice especially with this weather. Just know I truly love Missouri it’s where my family originated, I’m a Dalton with direct lineage from Dalton Gang and give to the university which my nieces go to and play several sports for Mizzou.
@Ozarian It’s all good. My grandfather side is from Ray county so our families may passed bread with each other. Our state tend to be intertwined. And I don’t mind criticisms but they better be fully legit or I might have a word or paragraph to say about it :)
It was all good til that 6 hr drive back in the sleet/ice storm. But tasted some really good bourbon and 3 of the 4 bottles I picked up were gift shop only. And what we picked out holy cow. Turned out the master distiller was a guy from my neck of the woods so it was nice to have a lot of connection points with him.
Most definitely Guinny, Im fond of Ray altough it has been some time.
Yea I broke out the Van Winkle and the Michter’s that night it sounded so good lol. Very nice, it’s been awhile since I’ve had a good single barrel scotch and looking forward to visiting a distillery in south Arkansas that produces a stellar product. Well glad you and yours made it back safely, I’ll just assume there was a designated sober driver after that journey.
We always beat Mizzou in recruiting
Too bad you lose on the field.
Too bad you loose generational talent like Luther Burden ever year. The top players never consider Mizzou.
In the 24/7 poll. Other way around in the Rivals evaluations/poll.
Barry is a very good coordinator, not so much as a HC. I wish Arky all the best except the one time each year you play us. MIZ-ZOU!
Missouri fans are so obsessed with Odom it’s sad.
It was a rough 4 years after 2015. He stepped up when no one else would but his learning curve was tough to watch. So when you think of those 4 years you think of Odom. That said we all wish him 11-1 seasons, which would be wonderful for Arkansas. Sure you can agree with that :)
I agree. Just know I dont mean real shade at Missouri, I actually got my bachelor’s in Science there back in the 80’s. Just trying to make this a rivalry with some ribbing lol.
Arky actually has to win to call this a rivalry. We have the same type of rivalry with Alabama that you all have with Mizzou.
No problem. It’s been said before by others and it’s been true to a degree. There is sometimes this need by some to expunge a coach. At Tennessee it’s about every 4 years. I think it’s a rivalry no one wants to admit right now. You listen to the players, it’s a rivalry.
@Tony then how the he!! do you think you ever had a rivalry with Kansas, Texas, or any other from tour last conference cause all you’ve ever had is basketball? Mizzou has never been a football school but that’s all that matters? Ok…so what does that say about Mizzou when Vanderbilt has a better trophy case than you. Mizzou wouldnt even pull in a profit if it hadnt joined the SEC to get that revenue share so it can pay for its other sports.
Somehow tonytiger believes that Arkansas will never beat his Missouri. Ever. From my vantage point, right now its two programs trying to tag each other with “yeah we arent very good, but you’re worse than we are”.
What struck me the most….Arkansas paid Chavis 1.3 million for that mess. Man, you could see Chavis had been pasted by the times when he was at A&M and po ole Morris hired him anyway. Then fills out his staff with a bunch of unproven G5 assistants. Odom will be a HC long before anyone is dumb enough to hire Morris again. Now that I think of it, its happening that way again right here in the state of Alabama. Wonder how that will turn out.
What is sad is that Alabama claims fake National Championships and they still dont come close to the amount Arkansas has. Go troll some Auburn fans with your dipsh!t self.
Let him be. Otherwise the wife, the dog, his kid gets it. And how many more year do you think Saban is going to coaching? He’s 69 and first sign of a heart attack or a stroke and it’s time to retire. So smile at him while you figure out how to back out of the conversation with him.
Glad to see Odom stay. I’m predicting a 6 win season and a bowl game for Hawgs. Coach Sam will get it done.