Tennessee football coach Butch Jones was given a $500,000 raise Monday, pushing his annual salary up to $4.1 million, according to a contract addendum released by UT.

Jones wasn’t given an extension, so there’s still five years left on his contract, but obviously he got a significant raise.

“Butch Jones has done an outstanding job leading this football program on and off the field,” Tennessee athletic director Dave Hart said in a prepared statement. “As I said recently, Butch has brought stability to our program. When we hired Butch (three) years ago, he laid out a vision of how we wanted to build this program back to where we all want it to be. We have made great strides, however, it remains an ongoing process.

“Most importantly, we have the right leader to get us to our ultimate destination and we are rewarding him accordingly.”

Jones is scheduled to speak with reporters Monday afternoon, following Tennessee’s practice inside the Anderson Training Center.

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