Southern Methodist University is paying quite the premium to ensure Rhett Lashlee stays off the college football coaching carousel.
Lashlee is finalizing a two-year extension with SMU that will make him one of the top-10 highest paid coaches in the country, per Yahoo Sports’ Ross Dellenger.
SMU was not going to let a high-performing coach slip through their fingers again. The Mustangs first hired Lashlee to be the team’s head coach in 2021 after losing Sonny Dykes to TCU.
The 42-year-old head coach has a 34-15 record in the midst of his fourth season at SMU. He led the Mustangs to back-to-back 11-3 seasons in 2023 and 2024. Last season, Lashlee’s squad finished 12th in the AP poll and made it to the first round of the expanded College Football Playoff.
