Liberty hires Chadwell, to pay over $4M salary

Liberty has hiring Jamey Chadwell arsenic its caller coach, with sources telling ESPN that Chadwell has agreed to a seven-year woody that averages much than $4 cardinal per year.

Chadwell has been 1 of the champion coaches successful the athletics the past 3 years, going 31-6 astatine Coastal Carolina. Overall, Chadwell is 39-22 successful 5 years there. He has anterior head-coaching acquisition astatine Charleston Southern, Delta State and North Greenville.

Coastal Carolina fell to Troy 45-26 successful the Sun Belt rubric crippled Saturday successful Chadwell's last crippled astatine the school.

The Chanticleers person hired NC State violative coordinator Tim Beck to beryllium their caller caput coach.

In 2020, Coastal Carolina started 11-0 -- including a high-profile triumph implicit No. 8 BYU -- and roseate to the apical 10 successful the Associated Press poll. Chadwell won 11 nationalist manager of the twelvemonth honors that year, arsenic Coastal Carolina became 1 of the champion stories successful the sport.

Chadwell's offense, with a moving backmost arsenic a focal point, has emerged arsenic 1 of the astir innovative successful the game.

The Liberty occupation became unfastened aft manager Hugh Freeze near for Auburn. Liberty had conscionable agreed to wage Freeze an mean of $5 cardinal per twelvemonth successful a caller woody signed anterior to his departure.

Liberty is poised to articulation Conference USA adjacent season, and the programme is considered to person the astir resources successful that league. Liberty has been a full-time FBS programme for lone 5 years. Freeze went 34-15 successful his 4 years there.