is alot of coach hiring talk....so when i ran across this article i
thought some may find it interesting even though it is a year old.
College football contracts are dotted with extras and provisions
11/17/2006
By Jodi Upton and Steve Wieberg, USA TODAY
A clause in Les Miles' contract with LSU states that if the coach takes another job before his contract expires in 2011, he would pay the school $500,000 or $1.25 million if he leaves for his alma mater, Michigan.
Provisions: Coaches' contracts contain some unusual clauses
Head football coaches' contracts with NCAA Division I-A schools can be more than a matter of money. Here are some of the more unusual provisions of current deals:
The perks
•Lifetime care: Air Force's Fisher DeBerry will get a lifetime monthly annuity after he steps down  $7,000 a month if he coaches through the 2006 season, a figure that rises to $9,000 a month if he coaches through the 2010 season. His wife would collect two-thirds of the monthly amount if he dies before she does.
•No rocking chair here: Colorado State wrote a retirement clause into 69-year-old Sonny Lubick's contract extension in January. If he retires before January 2, 2010 Lubick can stay at the school for up to two years as a $75,000-a-year "public relations and fundraising consultant."
•Sharing the cost of education: Florida's Urban Meyer gets $100,000 a year for family educational expenses.
•Getting away: Hawaii's June Jones gets 10 economy-fare round-trip tickets a year for personal use or use by his family "to any destination in the United States."
•After coaching: Michigan reworked Lloyd Carr's contract in 2003, extending it through the 2007 season with automatic one-year rollovers and stipulating that, at its conclusion, Carr will be appointed an associate athletics director. Duties will include fundraising and speaking.
•For (lots of) family and friends: Kansas' Mark Mangino can request up to 50 tickets per home game, between the 35-yard lines on the west side of Memorial Stadium, and gets use of a stadium suite. He also gets four men's basketball season tickets in the lower level, between the free throw lines, of Allen Fieldhouse.
•Flight time: Oklahoma's Bob Stoops gets up to 35 hours a year of private plane availability. Ohio State's Tressel gets 10 hours of jet time for personal use. Virginia's Al Groh gets "reasonable use of the University's aircraft and vehicles" for his duties.
The penalties
•You cheat, you pay: Arizona State's Dirk Koetter must pay up to $300,000 in damages if he's fired for NCAA or conference rules violations. Arizona's Mike Stoops must pay $100,000.
•Cost of being a Michigan man: LSU's Les Miles must pay $500,000 to leave before his contract expires at the end of 2011  $1.25 million if he leaves for Michigan, where he played, graduated with a degree in economics and coached under Bo Schembechler and Gary Moeller.
•Tough on crime: Cincinnati's Mark Dantonio and Florida's Urban Meyer can be suspended or fired for "commission of a crime ... whether prosecuted or not." Not counting minor traffic offenses.
The parochial
•No more November surprises: Auburn pledges to Tommy Tuberville that neither the school president nor athletics director or anyone acting under their authority "shall discuss or negotiate directly or indirectly Auburn's prospective employment of any other person as Head Football Coach of Auburn" without giving Tuberville prior notice. That's to avoid a repeat of a messy 2003 episode in which then-President William Walker, athletics director David Housel and two Auburn trustees flew to Kentucky to talk to Louisville's Bobby Petrino two days before Tuberville coached the Tigers against Alabama.
Says Tuberville: "This is a volatile job. It can be over before you know it  as I found out in 2003."
•Fancier digs: California's Jeff Tedford gets $500,000 if he's still coach when Cal plays its first game in a renovated Memorial Stadium, a project he has advocated. Construction on a new athletics training center is scheduled to start after this season, though the city of Berkeley plans to sue to block the project because of concerns about the stadium's earthquake-threatened location on the Hayward Fault. Work on the stadium itself, including a "seismic retrofit" designed to withstand an earthquake of 8.0 magnitude on the Richter scale, wasn't to begin until 2008 or 2009, depending on fundraising.
•In honor: Georgia's Mark Richt commits $30,000 in both 2006 and 2007 toward a $150,000 endowed scholarship in the name of David Jacobs, a starting nose tackle who suffered a career-ending stroke in 2001.
•Staying big-time: Arkansas State promises Steve Roberts that the school will devote "economic and other support" to allow the program "to remain reasonably competitive in all relevant aspects with the other similar athletic programs ... (including) maintenance and improvement where necessary and practicable of physical facilities such as office facilities, locker-room facilities, dining and dormitory facilities, physical training and exercise facilities, economic and personnel support, including a budget sufficient to hire and retain necessary assistant coaches and to cover the expenses associated with recruiting." The contract gives Roberts an out "without any penalty" if the school opts not to remain in the NCAA's Division I-A.
•I cannot approve this message: Texas A&M's Dennis Franchione cannot "publicly endorse any political candidate, issue or referendum, whether on the national, state or local level." He can be fired if he does.
•Wellness check: Virginia's Al Groh is required each year to "arrange for and obtain a medical evaluation of his fitness," with the school covering the cost up to $500. Test results are "shared confidentially" with the athletics director and university president.
•Well-insured: Kansas' Mark Mangino gets a $2 million term life insurance policy, and the school will contribute up to $25,000 toward upgrading it to a $4 million policy if he becomes eligible for increased insurance benefits. "In recognition of Head Coach's value to Athletics and its programs," the school also can purchase an additional $2 million policy in which KU is named the beneficiary.
A little bit extra
•Road receipts: Marshall's Mark Snyder gets 20% of the net proceeds (after travel and game expenses) from one non-conference road game of his choice per year, up to $50,000. He can share the money with hisassistants.
•Standing by his president: Oklahoma contributes an average of $750,000 a year toward an "anniversary benefit" paying Bob Stoops $3 million on Dec. 31, 2008, marking his 10th anniversary at the school. He forfeits the money if he leaves for another coaching job before then, though he'll get a prorated portion if he leaves in 2007 or 2008 in conjunction with David Boren's departure as president. Stoops also gets 35 hours of private air travel a year.
•Anniversary pay: Florida State's Bobby Bowden got $250,000 last January in recognition of his 30th season at the school. He got $75,000 for his 25th anniversary in 2001.
•Mr. Chairman: Beyond his contract guarantees, Texas' Mack Brown reported $120,000 in outside income as chairman of the board of the UT Golf Club.
•Deferred gains: California's Jeff Tedford can collect $2.5 million after a five-year period ending in 2009. ...Georgia's Mark Richt can collect $2.4 million after eight years ending in 2013. ... Colorado State's Sonny Lubick can collect $1.025 million after seven years ending in June 2010.
•"Longevity bonuses": Some schools call them "continuation incentives." Ohio State's Jim Tressel can collect $400,000 after this season; $425,000 after each of the following three seasons; a total of $3.5 million if he's still at OSU on Jan. 31, 2013. ... Louisville gives Bobby Petrino $1 million at the end of the 2007, 2010 and 2013 seasons and $2 million at the end of the 2015 season. ... Florida will give Urban Meyer $250,000 after this season and a total of $2.1 million in annual payments in a five-year period ending in 2011.
Performance matters
•Winning it all: An undefeated run to a national championship is effectively worth $1.18 million to Arizona State's Dirk Koetter ($1.05 million for a 12-0 regular-season finish, $125,000 for reaching the Bowl Championship Series title game and $5,000 for a final No. 1 poll ranking). He gets $781,500 if ASU loses once during the regular season and goes on to win it all.
•Mark of a good season: Doug Martin's contract with Kent State is automatically renewed for an additional year if the Golden Flashes have a .625 winning percentage in the Mid-American Conference or finish in the top two in the MAC's East Division. They're 4-2 in the league and second in the division with two games left.
•We're No. 6: Maryland's Ralph Friedgen gets $20,000 bonus if his team finishes in a four-way for sixth place in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
•Fannies in the seats: Kansas' Mark Mangino gets $100,000 if season ticket sales hit 40,000 by Sept. 1 each year. ... Cincinnati's Mark Dantonio gets $20,000 for each home game for which attendance is 32,000 or higher (including at least 25,000 paid) and $60,000 for average annual home attendance of better than 40,000. Wyoming's Joe Glenn gets a $50,000 cut from the first 5,000 season tickets sold each season, another $20 per season ticket sold over 5,000 and $1 for each single-game ticket sold.
•Clean living: Central Florida's George O'Leary gets $50,000 every year there are no violations of the student code of conduct; no arrests, indictments or convictions of crimes; and no "neglect or willfull conduct" in violation of NCAA rules.
•Minority emphasis: Washington State's Bill Doba gets $10,000 each year that Cougars' minority player graduation rate is at least 5% higher than the grad rate for minority males in the school's overall student body.
•Giving is good: Washington's Tyrone Willingham gets $20,000 if donations from the school's Tyee Club increase by 10% or more in a year's time.
•Mark of a good season: Texas Tech's Mike Leach gets $25,000 when the Red Raiders win five of their eight Big 12 games. ... Doug Martin's contract with Kent State is automatically renewed for an additional year if the Golden Flashes have a .625 winning percentage in the Mid-American Conference or finish in top two in the MAC's East Division (they're now 4-2 in the league and second in the division).
•Quality wins: Cincinnati's Mark Dantonio gets $15,000 for each win vs. a top-25 ranked team.
•Highest-quality win: Each of Chan Gailey's assistant coaches at Georgia Tech gets $5,000 for beating Georgia.
•Stats matter: Bowling Green's Gregg Brandon gets $1,000 when his team leads the Mid-American Conference in total offense or scoring and $1,000 for leading the league in total defense or scoring defense.
Performance is required
•Part of the deal: Nevada's Chris Ault, who's paid $360,000 a year, must "perform such television and radio appearances as are reasonably arranged and scheduled by the University at no additional compensation to the employee." Same for personal appearances.
•Also part of the deal: Ohio U., like many schools, sets player graduation-rate goals for Frank Solich  in his case 60% or an NCAA Academic Progress Rate that corresponds to a 60% grad rate. But unlike other schools, Ohio offers Solich no bonus for achieving it.
•More than a coach: Wyoming's Joe Glenn "is appointed by the University as its Head Football Coach and Lecturer in Intercollegiate Athletics."
