A&M to reward coach with new deal

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Texas A&M has given Kevin Sumlin a pay raise after his first season, the school announced Saturday, with a source telling ESPN's Joe Schad the new deal is for five years, taking the coach's contract through 2017.

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The agreement in principle includes increased "compensation packages" for the Aggie assistant football coaches and is pending a Feb. 1, 2013 meeting of the A&M System Board of Regents, athletic director Eric Hyman said in a news release. Sumlin, hired from Houston in December 2011, originally signed for five years at $2 million a year. With incentives, he earned $2.4 million, making him the second-lowest paid coach among current SEC head coaches.

Sumlin took over for the fired Mike Sherman, and, with the help of a Heisman Award-winning year from Johnny Manziel, turned the Aggies around immediately, improving from their 7-6 record in 2011 to an 11-2 mark in 2012.

They went 6-2 in conference play in their first SEC season, which was capped by a 41-13 win over Oklahoma in the AT&T Cotton Bowl and a No. 5 final ranking in the Associated press Top 25 -- A&M's best finish since 1956.

Information from ESPN's Brett McMurphy was used in this report.

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