Army has reached an agreement on a contract extension with football coach Jeff Monken to keep the coach at West Point through 2027 at an average annual value of $2 million per year, a source confirms to Sports Illustrated. The news was first reported by ESPN and Yahoo Sports and later confirmed by the school.
Army has been in talks to potentially join the American Athletic Conference as a football-only member, and there is positive momentum toward that move, although no deal has been agreed to yet. A source cautioned that Army’s contract extension with Monken and talks with the AAC are two separate decisions, and not directly linked.
Monken has had opportunities to leave the program in recent years, but there has been one key hang-up: his offense. The Black Knights previously had stuck to and won with an under-center flexbone offense. It had become something of a scarlet letter for Monken’s job prospects, as decision makers at other schools apparently have been reluctant to hire him because of how a so-called option coach would play among fans and donors.
