Brian Dutcher's five-year deal will keep him at SDSU through at least the 2027-28 season.
San Diego State men's basketball head coach Brian Dutcher came to SDSU 25 years ago and he plans on being on Montezuma Mesa for a few more years. Dutcher signed a contract extension that will keep him on the Aztecs bench through the 2027-28 season.
According to the contract signed by Dutcher and San Diego State director of Athletics John David Wicker, the annual base compensation is as follows:UCal State chancellor Mildred García, at $795,000, was the school system's highest-paid employee in 2023, the Sacramento Bee reported. For comparison, the total pay package last year for Adela de la Torre, the president of SDSU, was $548,196,Dutcher, the 2019-20 USA Today National Coach of the Year, is in the midst of his seventh season as head coach at SDSU, since taking over for Steve Fisher. In 1999, Dutcher came to San Diego State as an assistant on Fishers staff.Dutcher has won 21 or more games in each of his first seven seasons and has accumulated 173 career wins with the Aztecs. Dutcher's 75.9 winning percentage is the best in SDSU basketball history.“I’d like to thank President de la Torre and Athletics Director John David Wicker for the opportunity to continue to mentor and lead the outstanding young men that we have in our program at San Diego State,” Dutcher said. “Our success began 25 years ago when my friend Steve Fisher came to The Mesa, and, along with my assistant coaches, we have built a program that competes on a national level every night. I got into coaching to affect the lives of young people and to be able to do it at a school and in a city I loveis all anyone can ask for.” SDSU is coming off the best postseason in program history, when Dutcher guided the Aztecs to the 2023 NCAA Tournament National Championship game, losing to Connecticut 76-59.
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