Texas A&M administrators and football coach Kevin Sumlin have reached an agreement in principle to a salary increase and contract extension for Sumlin, as well as a raise for A&M assistant coaches, school officials announced torday.
Terms of the deal were not announced and must be approved during a Feb. 1 meeting of the A&M board of regents, said athletic director Eric Hyman. In Sumlin’s first season, A&M (11-2) finished No. 5 in both postseason polls, the school’s highest finish in the college football rankings since 1956, and recorded only the fourth season in school history with 11 or more victories. A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel won the 2012 Heisman Trophy and offensive tackle Luke Joeckel, an Arlington High School graduate, won the 2012 Outland Trophy.
_ Jimmy Burch
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