Georgia AD Josh Brooks receives raise, extension to $1.025 million annually with escalators

It pays to win and win big. Literally. According to a report from Palmer Thombs of DawgsHQ, Georgia athletics director Josh Brooks is receiving both a raise and a contract extension.

Brooks has overseen an athletics program that has maximized its most profitable sport, with the Bulldogs the reigning back-to-back national champions in football.

Per Thombs, Brooks’ raise will take him to $1.025 million annually, increasing by $100,000 each year of the deal. He also has incentive-based bonuses in the deal worth up to $100,000 annually. The extension was for six years.

That’s a price the program will be happy to pay to have someone regarded as one of the nation’s best athletics directors run things. Brooks was named a finalist for the 2023 Sports Business Journal’s Athletic Director of the Year honor.

The award went to San Diego State’s John David Wicker on Wednesday night.

Brooks was named the program’s athletics director in January 2021.

His hire in that role came following 11 years in various roles at Georgia within the athletics administration. He was most recently the interim athletics director and a senior deputy director of athletics.

Along with Georgia’s national titles in football, the program was also the 2021 national champion in equestrian. The women’s tennis team also won the SEC in 2021 under Brooks’ watch.

Before he was tapped as athletics director, Josh Brooks had significant experience with the football program at Georgia.

He served as the team’s director of football operations from 2008-11, then was the assistant and associate athletics director for internal operations from 2012-14.

Following that, Brooks left Georgia for a brief period.

He left in 2014 to become the athletics director at Millsaps College from 2014-15. He then headed to Louisiana-Monroe, where he was the deputy athletics director from 2015-16.

He returned to Georgia in 2016 as an executive associate director of athletics.