Fresno State Athletic Director Garrett Klassy has signed a five-year contract extension to remain with the Bulldogs.<\/p>\n
The agreement guarantees Klassy a total of $2.9 million, according to ESPN\u2019s Pete Thamel.<\/p>\n
The big picture: Klassy\u2019s contract amounts to an average of $580,000 per year and reportedly ranks among the largest guaranteed deals for an athletic director outside the Power Four conferences.<\/p>\n
Klassy joined Fresno State in July 2024 after serving as deputy athletic director and chief revenue officer at the University of Houston.<\/p>\n
He was hired after Fresno State and former Athletic Director Terry Tumey mutually agreed to part ways.<\/p>\n
Driving the news: Fresno State has undergone significant changes since Klassy took over the athletic department.<\/p>\n
The Bulldogs officially moved from the Mountain West to the rebuilt Pac-12 on July 1.<\/p>\n
Klassy hired Matt Entz as Fresno State\u2019s head football coach.<\/p>\n
Fresno State established Bulldog Sports Enterprises to bring the athletic department\u2019s multimedia rights and sponsorship operations in-house.<\/p>\n
The university signed a wide-ranging sponsorship agreement with The Wonderful Company covering all 18 Bulldog athletic programs.<\/p>\n
Klassy has also overseen efforts to improve the university\u2019s athletic facilities, increase revenue and strengthen Fresno State\u2019s name, image and likeness opportunities.<\/p>\n
The backstory: Before joining Houston, Klassy held leadership positions at Nebraska, where he served as interim athletic director, and the University of Illinois Chicago, where he was athletic director.<\/p>\n
He has also worked in athletic departments at Oregon, Alabama and Wisconsin.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s next: Fresno State has not publicly announced or commented on Klassy\u2019s extension.<\/p>\n
The new agreement keeps Klassy in place as Fresno State navigates its transition into the Pac-12 and works to capitalize on the increased television exposure and revenue opportunities associated with the conference move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresno State Athletic Director Garrett Klassy has signed a five-year contract extension to remain with the Bulldogs. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-441736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}