NC State Basketball

N&O: NC State Working on New Contract for Kevin Keatts

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6 years ago

August 17, 2018

Joe Giglio of the News & Observer reported today that NC State is working on a new contract for Men’s Basketball head coach Kevin Keatts.

The deal will likely include a raise for Keatts, who led the Wolfpack to 21 wins and the NCAA tournament in his first season in 2017-18, and an extra year. N.C. State has already reworked the contracts for Keatts’ assistants James Johnson and Takayo Siddle.

Keatts, 46, had an automatic rollover in his original contract, signed in 2017, for a $100,000 raise and a one-year extension. His current deal is worth about $2.3 million annually and runs through the 2023-24 season. A seventh year is a possibility for the new deal. (N&O)

He also broke down the new contracts of Keatts assistants that were recently re-worked in July.

Johnson, Keatts’ top assistant and former Virginia Tech coach, signed a new two-year deal in July worth $407,423 annually. Siddle, who was an assistant for Keatts at UNCW, signed a two-year deal worth $314,970 annually. They previously had been on one-year deals.

Roy Roberson, who was hired to replace assistant coach A.W. Hamilton, signed a two-year deal worth $284,500. Hamilton left after the 2017-18 season to become the head coach at Eastern Kentucky. (N&O)

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