Dan Enos signed as Michigan's WR coach, 'coordinator' role possible

New Michigan assistant coach Dan Enos signed a contract with the university on Dec. 15 that defined him as the football team's new "wide receivers/assistant coach."

Earlier this week, Michigan officially introduced Enos, a former Central Michigan head coach and Michigan State assistant, as a member of Jim Harbaugh's offensive staff, with a role still to be determined.

And while the contract officially describes Enos as a receivers coach, it does provide room for that job title to change. With a pay raise.

According to the four-year deal, Enos' base salary begins at $150,000 for the first year of his deal, raising to $200,000 for Year 2, $250,000 for Year 3 and $300,000 for Year 4. The Free Press obtained Enos' contract Wednesday via a Freedom of Information Act request.

However, if at any point the word "coordinator" becomes part of Enos' job title, his base salary becomes $750,000.

Currently, Michigan has two offensive staffers with the word "coordinator" in their tile: Offensive coordinator Tim Drevno and passing game coordinator Pep Hamilton. Both coaches made $1 million in base pay this past season.

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Michigan also had a "run game coordinator" in 2017 in the form of co-offensive line coach Greg Frey. Frey left the staff last week to take a job with new Florida State coach Willie Taggart. The Wolverines presently have an opening on their staff, as Football Bowl Subdivision teams can add a 10th assistant coach. That rule went into effect this week.

Per USA Today Sports, Arkansas — Enos' most recent employer — owes the coach $2.25 million over time from his previous deal as the program's offensive coordinator. That contract extension, signed in early 2016, ran through June 30, 2020. Any money Enos makes from Michigan during that span will cut into what Arkansas owes him.

The Dearborn Edsel Ford product spent the past three seasons as Bret Bielema's offensive coordinator at Arkansas. His run with the program ended when Bielema was fired after the conclusion of the 2017 season.

The 49-year-old Enos helped Arkansas to a No. 2 ranking in the Southeastern Conference in total offense in 2015, gaining 465.5 yards per game. Arkansas was No. 8 in the SEC at 428.4 yards per game in 2016 and was No. 9 at 373.4 yards per game this past season.

Enos had 3,000-yard passers at Arkansas in 2015 and 2016, and accomplished this in four of his five seasons in charge of CMU's program.

Michigan's offense ranked No. 105 nationally with 348.9 yards per game in 2017. The pass offense gained 171.2 yards per game as U-M's three starting quarterbacks completed 53.5 percent of their passes.

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A former All-State quarterback at Edsel Ford, Enos was a two-year starting quarterback for George Perles at MSU in 1987-91, helping the Spartans to back-to-back bowl wins and a share of the Big Ten title in 1990.

He was a member of Mark Dantonio's staff at Cincinnati in 2004, before joining John L. Smith's MSU staff as a quarterbacks coach in 2006. Dantonio retained Enos as a running backs coach in 2007 before he left to coach CMU in early 2010.

In five seasons at Central Michigan, Enos went 26-36 with two bowl appearances.

Contact Nick Baumgardner: nbaumgardn@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @NickBaumgardner.

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