Kliff Kingsbury contract at Texas Tech
College: Texas Tech
Conference: Big 12
State: Texas
Base compensation
- 2017 guaranteed pay: $3,500,000
- Total contract pay: $22,900,000
- Contract length: 7 years
- Start date: 9/1/2014
- Expires: 12/31/2020
Incentives
- National title bonus: $500,000
- CFP semifinal win: $500,000
- CFP semifinal appearance: $250,000
- Conference regular season division title bonus: $750,000 outright; $650,000 if win tiebreaker; $500,000 if lose tiebreaker
- Misc athletic-based incentives: $100,000 for 8 wins; $150,000 for 9; $175,000 for 10; $200,000 for 11; $250,000 for 12; $50,000 if offense or defense is ranked first nationally; $25,000 if ranked 2-5; $250,000 for Heisman winner.
- Coach of the year award bonus: $15,000 for Big 12 coach of year; $50,000 for national coach of year;
- National poll bonus: Final ranking: $50,000 for top 10; $25,000 for top 25.
- Academic bonuses: $20,000 if team GPA over 2.64; $25,000 is GPA over 2.84; $30,000 if GPA over 2.9; $20,000 if annual APR over 950; $10,000 if four-year APR over 950
- Car: One courtesy car; two if he gets married.
- Tickets: 40 ticket suite with food and beverage plan for each home game plus four season tickets; 20 tickets to away games.
- Golf/country club: memberships at local country club, Jerry S. Rawls Golf Course and the Texas Tech Club;
Other Perks
- Miscellaneous perks: $50,000 if average paid attendance exceeds 95% capacity; $5,000 apparel allocation; 3 guests on team charter
- Buyout if coach leaves for another coaching job: $1,500,000 if leaving for NFL job; if leaving for NCAA job, $2,750,000 in 2017; $2,250,000 in 2018 and $2,000,000 in 2019 and 2020.
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