Oklahoma State took a gamble on a relatively unknown in hiring Bryan Nardo earlier this year to replace outgoing defensive coordinator Derek Mason, but that gamble no doubt has some upside. And by upside I mean it appears to have saved OSU a fat stack of cash.
Mason was compensated $1.1 million in his one-and-done season as OSU’s defensive playcaller, but Nardo, according to a report this week, will receive just over half of that — at $650K annually.
That pay grade makes him roughly middle-of-the-pack in the Big 12 according to publicly available data on the interwebs.