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Butch Jones

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Butch Jones contract at Tennessee

Butch Jones

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College: Tennessee

Conference: SEC

State: Tennessee

Base compensation

  • 2017 guaranteed pay: $4,110,000
  • Total contract pay: $30,630,000
  • Contract length: 8 years
  • Start date: 12/7/2012
  • Last amended: 12/13/2015
  • Expires: 2/28/2021

Incentives

  • National title bonus: $500,000
  • CFP semifinal win: $400,000
  • CFP semifinal appearance: $350,000
  • Conference title bonus: $100,000 for appearing and $50,000 for winning
  • Coach of the year award bonus: $50,000 for conference coach of year; $100,000 for national coach of year
  • National poll bonus: $100,000 for top 10 AP poll finish; $50,000 for top 25 AP poll finish
  • Academic bonuses: if team APR fall belows 930, coach forfeits $50,000
  • Car: two cars with paid liability insurance or $1,600 monthly allowance
  • Tickets: 8 football lower-bowl tickets, 16-seat suite and two parking passes.

Other Perks

  • Miscellaneous perks: $500,000 signing bonus; $10,000 annually for summer camp; university paid $1,400,000 contract buyout to University of Cincinnati
  • Buyout if coach leaves for another coaching job: $3,000,000 if before 2/28/18; $2,000,000 if before 2/28/20; $1,000,000 if before 2/28/21

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Kevin Sumlin

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Kevin Sumlin contract at Texas A&M

Kevin Sumlin

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College: Texas A&M

Conference: SEC

State: Texas

Base compensation

  • 2017 guaranteed pay: $5,000,000
  • Total contract pay: $25,000,000
  • Contract length: 5 years
  • Start date: 1/1/2015
  • Expires: 12/31/2019

Incentives

  • National title bonus: $400,000
  • CFP semifinal appearance: $300,000
  • Conference title bonus: $100,000 for appearing and $50,000 for winning
  • Coach of the year award bonus: $50,000 for conference coach of year; $75,000 for national coach of year
  • Academic bonuses: $35,000 for APR of 950; $50,000 for APR of 965; $75,000 for APR of 975.
  • Car: two cars
  • Tickets: 12 tickets and one parking pass to football games; 4 men’s basketball tickets and one parking pass
  • Golf/country club: country club membership

Other Perks

  • Buyout if coach leaves for another coaching job: $5,000,000 if before end of 2017.

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Tom Herman

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Tom Herman contract at Texas

Tom Herman

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College: Texas

Conference: Big 12

State: Texas

Base compensation

  • 2017 guaranteed pay: $5,250,000
  • Total contract pay: $29,750,000
  • Contract length: 5 years
  • Start date: 12/1/2016
  • Expires: 12/31/2021

Incentives

  • Retention bonus: $1,000,000 on 12/25/2019
  • National title bonus: $250,000
  • CFP semifinal win: $125,000
  • CFP semifinal appearance: $100,000
  • Conference title bonus: $100,000
  • Coach of the year award bonus: $100,000 for national coach of year; $50,000 for conference coach of year
  • National poll bonus: $180,000 for final top 5 poll ranking; $120,000 for final top 10 poll ranking.
  • Car: two dealer cars

Other Perks

  • Miscellaneous perks: Texas paid Herman’s $2,500,000 buyout fee from his Houston contract
  • Buyout if coach leaves for another coaching job: $3,000,000 for each remaining year on contract plus the amount of salary the school would have to pay assistants under contract

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Everett Withers

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Everett Withers contract at Texas State

Everett Withers

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College: Texas State

Conference: Sun Belt

State: Texas

Base compensation

  • 2017 guaranteed pay: $675,000
  • Total contract pay: $3,500,000
  • Contract length: 5 years
  • Start date: 1/6/2016
  • Expires: 1/5/2021

Incentives

  • Academic bonuses: $7,500 if APR is above 960, or $10,000 if APR is above 970, or $12,500 if APR is above 980
  • Car: $550 per month

Other Perks

  • Miscellaneous perks: $50 per month for cell phone
  • Buyout if coach leaves for another coaching job: Coach owes school 50% of remaining salary on his contract.

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Kliff Kingsbury

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Kliff Kingsbury contract at Texas Tech

Kliff Kingsbury

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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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Jason Candle

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Jason Candle contract at Toledo

Jason Candle

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College: Toledo

Conference: MAC

State: Ohio

Base compensation

  • 2017 guaranteed pay: $675,000
  • Total contract pay: $4,275,000
  • Contract length: 6 years
  • Start date: 12/2/2015
  • Last amended: 3/14/2017
  • Expires: 12/31/2021

Incentives

  • CFP semifinal win: $100,000
  • CFP semifinal appearance: $100,000
  • Conference title bonus: $15,000 for appearing and $30,000 for winning
  • Conference regular season division title bonus: $25,000
  • Misc athletic-based incentives: $30,000 for 11 wins, $25,000 for 10, $20,000 for 9, $15,000 for 8, $10,000 for 7;
  • Coach of the year award bonus: $20,000 for conference coach of year; $30,000 for regional coach of year; $40,000 for national coach of year
  • Academic bonuses: $25,000 for APR of 930; $25,000 if team APR is in top half of conference; $25,000 if team GPA is 3.0 in fall or spring semesters;
  • Car: one car
  • Golf/country club: country club membership.

Other Perks

  • Miscellaneous perks: school puts $25,000 in a 403(b) plan each year.
  • Buyout if coach leaves for another coaching job: $600,000 in 2017 or 2018; $300,000 thereafter

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Neal Brown

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Neal Brown contract at Troy

Neal Brown

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College: Troy

Conference: Sun Belt

State: Alabama

Base compensation

  • 2017 guaranteed pay: $800,000
  • Total contract pay: $3,260,000
  • Contract length: 4 years
  • Start date: 1/1/2017
  • Expires: 5/31/2021

Incentives

  • Retention bonus: automatic one-year extension 12/1/17 and 12/1/18 unless either side notifies other in writing
  • CFP semifinal appearance: $150,000
  • Conference title bonus: $10,000
  • Misc athletic-based incentives: $15,000 for each conference win after the fourth;
  • Coach of the year award bonus: $5,000 for conference coach of year; $10,000 for national coach of year
  • Academic bonuses: $5,000 if single-year APR of 945; $5,000 if four-year APR of 945
  • Car: one car, and school pays insurance and reimburses coach for gas
  • Tickets: suite for home football games and “reasonable” amount of tickets to football and basketball games
  • Golf/country club: Troy Country Club

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Willie Fritz

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Willie Fritz contract at Tulane

Willie Fritz

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College: Tulane

Conference: American Athletic

State: Louisiana

Base compensation

  • 2017 guaranteed pay: Private schools are not subject to public records laws and are not obligated to release contract information.

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Philip Montgomery

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Philip Montgomery contract at Tulsa

Philip Montgomery

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College: Tulsa

Conference: American Athletic

State: Oklahoma

Base compensation

  • 2017 guaranteed pay: Private schools are not subject to public records laws and are not obligated to release contract information.

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Bill Clark

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Bill Clark contract at UAB

Bill Clark

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College: UAB

Conference: C-USA

State: Alabama

Base compensation

  • 2017 guaranteed pay: $630,000
  • Total contract pay: $3,150,000
  • Contract length: 5 years
  • Start date: 6/1/2015
  • Expires: 5/31/2020

Incentives

  • Retention bonus: $25,000 every Feb. 15
  • National title bonus: $50,000
  • CFP semifinal win: $100,000
  • CFP semifinal appearance: $100,000
  • Conference title bonus: $50,000
  • Conference regular season division title bonus: $25,000
  • Misc athletic-based incentives: $25,000 for 6 wins; $30,000 for 7; $35,000 for 8; $40,000 for 9; $10,000 for a win over a Power Five conference team
  • National poll bonus: $10,000 for final top 25 ranking.
  • Academic bonuses: $50,000 for APR of 985; $25,000 for APR of 950
  • Car: two cars with insurance, or, instead $750 monthly allowance per car
  • Golf/country club: country club membership.

Other Perks

  • Miscellaneous perks: SEASON TICKETS bonus: $50,000 for 10,000 sold; $35,000 for 7,500; $20,000 for 5,000; FUNDRAISING bonus: $10,000 for $1,000,000 raised; $30,000 for $3,000,000; $50,000 for $5,000,000; $70,000 for $7,000,000; $100,000 for $10,000,000; $120,000 for $12,000,000; $150,000 for $15,000,000; $2000,000 if $20,000,000.
  • Buyout if coach leaves for another coaching job: $500,000 if before 1/1/2018; $350,000 if before 1/1/2019.

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