| Robb Akey | |
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| Akey in January 2010
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| Sport(s) | Football |
| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Idaho |
| Conference | WAC |
| Record | 19–43 (.306) |
| Annual salary | $365,796 [1] |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | July 24, 1966 |
| Place of birth | Colorado Springs, Colorado |
| Playing career | |
| 1984–1987 | Weber State |
| Position(s) | Defensive lineman, linebacker, tight end |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1988–1994 1995 1996–1998 1999–2002 2003–2006 2007–present |
Weber State (DL/ST) Northern Arizona (ST) Northern Arizona (DC) Washington State (DL) Washington State (DC) Idaho |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 19–43 (.306) |
| Bowls | 1–0 |
| Statistics | |
| College Football Data Warehouse | |
Robb Akey (born July 24, 1966) is a college football coach, currently the head coach of the Idaho Vandals of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC). Akey became Idaho's fourth head coach in a five year span when he was hired on December 20, 2006, by athletic director Rob Spear.
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Akey grew up in Colorado Springs, and was a 1984 graduate of Wasson High School, where he was three-sport athlete. Akey played on the defensive line for head coach Mike Price at Weber State in Ogden, Utah, in the mid-1980s, where he was an all-conference (Big Sky) selection at defensive end in his senior season. He also earned honorable mention honors on the All-American team (Division I-AA), and was the Wildcats' career sack leader. During his college career he also played at linebacker and on the offense at tight end. The Wildcats were 10-3 in his senior season of 1987, advancing to the I-AA quarterfinals.
Akey was a college assistant coach for 19 seasons, the last eight at neighboring Washington State, eight miles (13 km) to the west on the Palouse. He was hired as a defensive line coach under WSU head coach Mike Price following the 1998 season, and added the defensive coordinator duties in 2003 under new head Bill Doba, who was the defensive coordinator for Price.
Before moving to Pullman for the 1999 season, Akey was an assistant coach for 11 seasons in the Big Sky Conference in Division I-AA. He was at Northern Arizona in Flagstaff for four seasons (1995–98), after seven at his alma mater, Weber State (1988-94).
Akey is the first head coach since Jerry Davitch (1978–81) without previous ties to the University of Idaho, either as a former player or assistant coach. But Akey had familiarity with the program, he lived eight miles from the Moscow campus for eight seasons, with Idaho as an opponent in each of those seasons. In addition, Akey either played or coached against the Vandals for a dozen seasons (1984-95), while a player and assistant coach in the Big Sky.
Akey succeeded Dennis Erickson, who left his second stint at Idaho after just ten months for Arizona State of the Pac-10. Erickson was preceded by Nick Holt, who voluntarily departed after only two seasons, compiling nine losses in each. Tom Cable was fired in late 2003, after four disappointing seasons (11-35).
On February 22, 2007, the Idaho State Board of Education approved a five-year, $1.2 million contract for Akey, or $240,000 per year; $155,000 in base salary and $85,000 for media/public appearances. This was the largest contract in Vandals' history and included a $1 million buyout clause if Akey left before January 2, 2009.[2]
The buyout clause was pro-rated; the figure dropped to $750,000 if he left before January 1, 2010, and $500,000 for the remainder of the five-year deal. The large buyout is the result of the departure former coach Dennis Erickson; he left for Arizona State after one season in 2006 and faced only a nominal $150,000 buyout.
Incentive bonuses included $5,000 for conference coach of the year; $5,000 for academic achievement and team behavior; 1/13th of annual salary ($11,923.20) for a Top 25 ranking; and 1/13th of annual salary for a conference championship or bowl game appearance.
Following the 2009 winning season and bowl victory, Akey was awarded with a new five-year contract in June 2010. It maintains a constant annual base salary of $165,796.80 with annual media payments beginning at $190,000 per year and increasing by $10,000 each year of the contract. There are seven performance-based contingencies in the salary agreement, which could boost his annual compensation to as much as $514,057.60 in 2011 to $544,057.60 in 2014. The base salary is from state funds; the remainder comes through private fund-raising efforts such as the "Coaching Excellence Fund." [1]
When hired as the Vandals' new head coach, Akey stated that he was opposed to holding the Idaho-WSU game every year. He said he preferred it as a "once-in-a-while thing," to minimize possible "off-field" problems between rival programs only eight miles apart.[3] The annual game was revived in 1998 and played for ten consecutive years; it was last played in Akey's first season of 2007 and no future games with WSU are currently scheduled.
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | Coaches# | AP° | ||
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| Idaho Vandals (Western Athletic Conference) (2007–present) | |||||||||
| 2007 | Idaho | 1–11 | 0–8 | 9th | |||||
| 2008 | Idaho | 2–10 | 1–7 | 9th | |||||
| 2009 | Idaho | 8–5 | 4–4 | 4th | W Humanitarian | ||||
| 2010 | Idaho | 6–7 | 3–5 | 6th | |||||
| 2011 | Idaho | 2–10 | 1-6 | 8th | |||||
| Idaho: | 19–43 | 9–30 | |||||||
| Total: | 19–43 | ||||||||
| National championship Conference title Conference division title | |||||||||
| †Indicates BCS bowl game. #Rankings from final Coaches' Poll. °Rankings from final AP Poll. |
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