COLUMBIA, S.C. – Former Alabama head coach Mike Shula is South Carolina’s new offensive coordinator and will receive a three-year contract worth $1.1 million per season.
The school’s board of trustees on Tuesday approved the deals for Shula along with extensions and raises for the Gamecocks’ nine other assistants. The revised contracts included making defensive coordinator Clayton White the school’s highest-paid assistant with a salary of $1.9 million next year and increasing it to $2 million in 2026 and $2.1 million in 2027.
Shula, who joined the program as an offensive analyst in March, will also coach quarterbacks. He replaces Dowell Loggains, the team’s offensive coordinator for the past two years, who took over as Appalachian State’s head coach earlier this month.
The deals come after a season in which the Gamecocks, picked 13th in the expanded Southeastern Conference this season, went 9-3 and won their last six games, four of them over ranked opponents.
Shula will be tasked with improving the play of second-year quarterback LaNorris Sellers, a dynamic first-year starter who threw for 1,481 yards and 13 touchdowns during South Carolina’s six-game winning streak. Sellers also scrambled to find four more TDs during that stretch.
South Carolina will face Illinois in the Citrus Bowl on December 31.
Shula, the son of the last great NFL coach, Don Shula, played quarterback for the Crimson Tide and coached the team from 2003-2006.
His most recent coaching job before joining South Carolina was as a senior offensive assistant for the NFL’s Buffalo Bills in 2022 and 2023.
White was rewarded for the play of his defense. The team finished third in the SEC in overall defense (313 yards allowed per game) and fifth in scoring defense (17.8 points per game). The Gamecocks were second in the SEC with 40 sacks, while defensive end Kyle Kennard led the league with 11.5 sacks.
White’s new deal ties him to South Carolina through the 2027 season.
Offensive line coach Lonnie Teasley received a raise from $265,000 to $675,000 next year. Receivers coach Mike Furrey got a raise from $225,000 to $650,000. Linebackers and defensive ends coach Sterling Lucas received a raise from $200,000 to $775,000. Defensive backs coach Torian Gray got a raise from $150,000 to $850,000. Defensive line coach Travian Robertson receives a raise from $150,000 to $550,000.
Special teams coach Joe DeCamillis got a raise from $50,000 to $850,000. Tight ends coach Shawn Elliott received a raise from $10,000 to $760,000 next year. Elliott’s salary will increase to $775,000 in the final two years of the deal.
Running backs coach Marquel Blackwell received a raise from $5,000 to $580,000.