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Eliah Drinkwitz

Current head coach

The numbers

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Annual compensation

$10,250,000

January 16, 2026 – January 15, 2027

Sum of printed components; the contract does not print a single total.

USA TODAY reports $9.00M (FY2025). That is $1.25M less than the contract's figure for this period.

What the document says
“Base Salary ... Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000.00) [Section 3.1.1, page 2] + Non-Salary Compensation [table, Section 3.1.2, page 3] + Publicity Rights Fee ... Five Million Seven Hundred Thousand Dollars ($5,700,000.00) [Section 3.2.1, page 6]”Sections 3.1.1, 3.1.2 and 3.2.1 · Missouri — Eli Drinkwitz 2nd amended and restated employment agreement · Page 3

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Buyout if the school fires him

80% of remaining Base Salary + Non-Salary Compensation + Publicity Rights Fee

full term

The document states a formula, not a dollar figure.

USA TODAY reports a buyout of $28.88M (FY2025) — a single figure as of that year rather than the formula this contract carries.

What the document says
“University shall pay Coach 80% of the Base Salary, Non-Salary Compensation, and Publicity Rights Fee due pursuant to Sections 3.1.1, 3.1.2, and 3.2.1 from the date of termination through the end of the Term ("Liquidated Damages Amount").”Section 6.4.2.3 Termination by the University Without Cause · Missouri — Eli Drinkwitz 2nd amended and restated employment agreement · Page 16

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Term

Through January 15, 2032

full term

Running from December 10, 2019.

What the document says
“The Term of this Agreement shall be for the period beginning on December 10, 2019 (the "Start Date"), and ending on the later of: (i) January 15, 2032, or (ii) the day after the date of the Team's last game of the 2031-2032 season”Section 2.1 Length of Term · Missouri — Eli Drinkwitz 2nd amended and restated employment agreement · Page 2

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Figures on these cards are read off the cited document at the cited page. USA TODAY's row is reported alongside as a cross-check, not merged into them: a contract states scheduled pay for a contract year, USA TODAY reports one fiscal year of pay to whoever held the job, and the two are expected to differ. USA TODAY also lists a maximum bonus of $1.57M. Source ↗

The fine print

One clause we can quote, grouped by what it covers. Each line is the plain-English reading; the contract's own words sit one click beneath it.

Aircraft · 1
$250,000per year

A dollar cap, not an hour grant: up to $250,000 a year reimbursed for personal flying, receipts required, nothing carried over.

What the contract says
“The University agrees to reimburse Coach in an amount up to a maximum of $250,000 per Contract Year for Coach's expenses for personal, non-business air travel for Coach, Coach's spouse, and members of Coach's immediate family ("Flight Expenses"). To receive reimbursement, Coach shall be required to submit documentation substantiating the Flight Expenses and showing that they were incurred for air travel for Coach, Coach's spouse, or Coach's immediate family. Flight Expenses incurred in one Contract Year shall apply to that Contract Year's maximum, and neither any incurred Flight Expenses nor any amount remaining below the Contract Year's maximum shall be carried over to any subsequent Contract Year.”Missouri — Eli Drinkwitz 2nd amended and restated employment agreement · Page 5
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The flights

Published reporting on Missouri Tigers aircraft during this tenure:

Missouri aircraft fits SEC spring meetings travelMay 26, 2026 · N184HJ
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Missouri Tigers Team Charter Matched a Football Travel WindowNov 29, 2025 · N840SY
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Missouri Tigers Aircraft Documented Around SEC Media Days 2025Jul 17, 2025 · N502EG
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Missouri Tigers Aircraft Documented Around SEC Media Days 2023Jul 17, 2023 · N989ST
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A jet clause is eligibility; a tracked flight is evidence; the join is presented as contract-next-to-reporting, never as proof the coach was aboard.

How this page is sourced

Where a contract for this coach is in the corpus, the headline figures are read off that document at the page each card cites, and USA TODAY's figure runs alongside as a cross-check. Where no contract is held, the figures are school-reported contract terms from USA TODAY's coaches salary database for the most recent fiscal year on file. Neither is W-2 compensation, and neither is comparable to Form 990 totals for private schools.

Clause text is transcribed verbatim from the cited document at the cited page. Where a term is attributed to published reporting rather than a document we hold, the card says so explicitly.

Flight reports linked here are attributed to the program and the date, not to a passenger. Nothing on this page claims a coach exercised a clause or was aboard an aircraft.