<p>Chryst’s contract 5 years, $1.5 million
University of Wisconsin offensive coordinator Paul Chryst is to be paid $300,000 per year under the five-year contract to which he recently agreed.</p>
<p>The UW Board of Regents approved the $1.5 million contract during its meeting today at UW-Parkside.</p>
<p>Chryst’s base salary last season was $200,000. </p>
<p>According to Walter Dickey, the chairman of the UW Athletic Board:</p>
<p>The contract does not include any raises in base pay. However, Chryst can collect an annuity worth $250,000 if he stays at UW for the length of the contract. </p>
<p>If Chryst leaves UW to become a head coach at a Division I school before the five-year contract expires, he will collect an annuity of $50,000 for each season he stayed at UW. </p>
<p>UW officials had been working on a new deal for Chryst before he was courted by the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League. The Cowboys eventually offered Chryst the job as their quarterbacks coach but he decided to remain at UW.</p>
<p>UW’s offense has thrived under Chryst in each of the last two seasons. He coached the team’s tight ends in 2002, left to rejoin Mike Riley at Oregon State and worked there in 2003 and '04 but then returned to UW in 2005 as co-offensive coordinator.</p>
<p>That season, UW set school records for points scored in a season (446) and for season scoring average (34.3 ppg and scored at least 40 points six times.</p>
<p>Most notably, the passing game improved as quarterback John Stocco set UW season records for passing yards (2,920), passing touchdowns (21) and pass completions (197). </p>
<p>Wide receivers accounted for 110 catches, with running backs accounting for 61 and tight ends 29. Running back Brian Calhoun became just the second player in NCAA Division I-A history to accumulate 1,500 yards rushing and 500 receiving yards in the same season.</p>
<p>Five members of that offensive unit were selected in the 2006 NFL Draft and several others were lost to graduation, so Chryst had to rebuild the 2006 offense with eight new starters. </p>
<p>The result? </p>
<p>Chryst helped orchestrate Wisconsin’s record 12-victory season with an offense that averaged 29.2 points per game, the No. 9 mark in school history. Sophomore Travis Beckum set school records for receptions (61) and receiving yards (903) by a tight end and P.J. Hill led the Big Ten Conference in rushing (1,569 yards) and was named the league’s freshman of the year.</p>
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