Tracy Claeys was named Wednesday head football coach at the University of Minnesota, removing his interim tag with a three-year contract.
Claeys was named interim head coach Oct. 28 when Jerry Kill resigned because of health issues.
Claeys, 46, was Kill's defensive coordinator in their four-plus years together at Minnesota.
Salary terms were not immediately available.
As a first-time head coach, Claeys would probably make less than the average for Big Ten coaches ($3 million a year in 2015-16). That ranges from $7 million for Michigan's first-year coach Jim Harbaugh to $916,000 for Illinois' interim head coach Bill Cubit, according to the USA Today database.