Nebraska’s new offensive coordinator Matt Lubick speaks to the press on March 9, 2020, at Memorial Stadium.
Matt Lubick is staying in Lincoln.
The Nebraska offensive coordinator and receivers coach went deep into the running for the head coaching job at FCS Montana State, but turned it down to remain on Scott Frost’s staff, a source with knowledge of the situation confirmed to the Journal Star on Monday.
Lubick interviewed for the MSU job on Saturday, multiple sources told the Journal Star, but ultimately decided to stay in Lincoln.
Lubick would have had to take a sizable pay cut from his current $500,000 salary to move to Bozeman, where former head coach Jeff Choate had a base salary of $206,000 but had other guarantees that pushed his compensation well north of $300,000 before incentives.
The 49-year-old Lubick, though, was born in Bozeman and has extensive connections to the area and to MSU.
His father, Sonny, was the head coach at the school in the 1970s and spent more than a decade there all together as a head coach and assistant. Not only that, but Lubick also worked from 2007-09 at Arizona State under former Sun Devil coach Dennis Erickson, a Montana State graduate and long-ago Bobcat assistant coach who is still respected in the area and is part of the school’s head coaching search committee.
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