When you do a good job, you tend to get rewarded for it, and the Syracuse Orange are rewarding their offensive coordinator Jeff Nixon for doing a good job last season.
In fact, he did a great job.
Syracuse had its best season in a while at 10-3 with a bowl win. Meanwhile, the Orange had the nation’s seventh-best offense in terms of yards per game at 467.6, and Syracuse’s passing offense was the very best in all of college football.
Ohio State transfer quarterback Kyle McCord broke the ACC’s all-time single-season passing record at Syracuse thanks to his 4,779 yards thrown with 34 touchdowns and 12 interceptions.
Nixon orchestrated a passing attack that notched 370 yards per game and the Orange scored 34.1 points per game.
Nixon’s involvement in the offense was arguably the main reason first-year head coach Fran Brown had so much success, and now Syracuse is making sure that Nixon sticks around for a bit.
According to Pete Thamel of ESPN, Nixon is getting a new contract extension that will make him one of the highest-paid coordinators in ACC football.
