Air Force: If Troy Calhoun completes 10 years of service, he will qualify for a lifetime monthly pension benefit. If he qualifies for the pension and dies before his wife does, she would receive two-thirds of the monthly payment for the rest of her life.
Army: Pays Rich Ellerson $50,000 for defeating Navy, $50,000 for defeating Air Force or $150,000 for defeating Navy and Air Force in the same season.
Bowling Green: Dave Clawson can receive $2,000 if a Falcon is named Mid-American Conference player of the year; $5,000 for beating a team from a Bowl Championship Series conference.
He also gets $10,000 each year if the team plays a regular-season game against a team from a BCS conference and the school is guaranteed and actually receives at least $400,000 for the game.
California: Jeff Tedford can receive increases in his $1.575 million annual talent fee for all subsequent years of his contract — up to $1 million worth of increases over the contract’s term, which lasts until Dec. 31, 2015 — if the team meets any of five goals involving the Pacific-10 Conference championship, a BCS appearance or the national championship game.
He will receive a $250,000 bonus if he is head coach when the team fully occupies a new training facility (expected in late summer 2011) and another $250,000 if he is head coach when Cal plays its first home game in renovated Memorial Stadium (expected for the start of the 2012 season).
Central Michigan: For every year in which at least 60% of football scholarship recipients are Michigan residents, as defined by the home address of the player’s legal guardian, Dan Enos will receive $5,000.
Cincinnati: Gave Butch Jones a $700,000 interest-free loan. If he remains as head coach, it will be forgiven by $140,000 on Jan. 1,2011 and on Jan. 1, 2012 (or after the completion of any Cincinnati bowl game those seasons, whichever is later) and by the remaining $420,000 on Jan. 1, 2013, or after that season’s bowl game.
If Jones is terminated for cause, he owes the remaining balance of the loan. If he is terminated without cause, the remaining balance is forgiven.
Kansas State: “To assist in representing” the university and the athletics department, Bill Snyder receives four tickets to the Big 12 men’s and women’s basketball tournaments and, as available, four tickets to NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournament games in which Kansas State participates. This also includes travel expenses for such games for Snyder and his spouse.
Middle Tennessee State: If Rick Stockstill terminates his contract without cause and becomes the head coach at another Division I school, the university gets to choose between accepting a $200,000 payment from Stockstill or requiring his new school to enter into a contract for a single game against Middle Tennessee in Murfreesboro, Tenn.
Purdue: Upon termination or expiration of his contract, Danny Hope can keep personal items and records, including personal playbooks, notebooks, documents, etc.
But “prior to removing or destroying any such” items, coach “will allow athletics director or his designee to review such property or documents to confirm that they are in fact personal, rather than Purdue, property.”
Texas: If Mack Brown voluntarily relinquishes his duties as head coach during the term of the deal, he will be reassigned to another “significant position” within the university with compensation to be determined consistent with state law.
Houston: The amount Kevin Sumlin would have to pay the school as a buyout if he terminates without cause is tied to the start of construction of a new or renovated stadium. If construction has not begun and Sumlin decides to leave, his payment would be reduced by $100,000 to $300,000, depending on when he left.
Idaho: Robb Akey’s right to receive any of the at least $190,000 he is supposed to get for media programs and public appearances is contingent on several factors, including “behavior of team members” and “appropriate behavior by, and supervision of,” all assistant coaches, as determined by the athletics director.
Michigan State: Through Jan. 15, 2016, Mark Dantonio’s payment to the school for terminating his contract to take a coaching job with another Division I or pro team would be reduced by $1 million if Lou Anna K. Simon is no longer Michigan State’s president and Mark Hollis is no longer its athletics director.
Otherwise, Dantonio would owe $3.5 million for leaving before Jan. 15, 2012, $2.5 million for leaving between Jan. 16, 2012, and Jan. 15, 2016.
Nevada: The university explicitly acknowledges to Chris Ault its responsibility to “provide the football program with the maximum permissible number of assistant coaches.”
North Carolina: In January, the university will hold a “good-faith review” of Butch Davis’ salary and additional compensation.
Ohio: Frank Solich is contractually responsible for his players “to achieve acceptable graduation rates” of 60% for the previous three-year average of combined freshman and transfer classes or developing a team NCAA Academic Progress Rate that corresponds to a 60% graduation rate.
Oregon State: The school will pay for up to 10 guests to travel with Mike Riley to each regular-season away game. If the team participates in postseason play, the school will cover the costs for up to 10 guests and their spouses and dependent children.
South Carolina: The school pays for Steve Spurrier’s membership fees, monthly dues and related assessments (excluding food, beverages and related charges) for two country club and one dining club to allow Spurrier to “develop and promote interest in and support and sponsorship of the football program and the University.”
But Spurrier will not be provided membership at any club that “engages in discriminatory practices in violation of applicable federal and state laws.”
Texas A&M: While Mike Sherman can get $100,000 for appearing in “the postseason football game that is designated the national championship game,” he needs the team to be named the national champion by the Associated Press to receive his “Winning Football National Championship” bonus of $100,000.
Troy: Under his new contract, dated June 1, Larry Blakeney “will continue to assume additional duties” as an assistant athletics director without additional pay specific to that work.
Blakeney also “is expected to be actively engaged in the annual soliciting and selling of tickets” (he gets a $5,000 bonus if the team exceeds 13,000 season tickets for a given year).
In addition, in exchange for his TV show payment, Blakeney “is expected to establish and promote a statewide weekly” show.
Washington State: The university will upgrade Paul Wulff“s air travel to “first-class business travel” when available using free upgrades to the university.
West Virginia: Bill Stewart cannot work “in any capacity relating to a football program” at another member of the Big East Conference or any conference of which the school is a member for 18 months after termination of his contract.
Wisconsin: Bret Bielema’s contract includes an article titled “Medical Decisions.” It says the coach “understands and agrees the final decision regarding student-athlete participation in organized practices and/or competitions shall be made” by the athletic department’s medical and training room staff.
Virginia: To help Mike London pay the buyout he owed for leaving Richmond, the university gave London a $400,000 loan with 6% simple interest per year on the outstanding amount. The loan and interest due is being forgiven at $80,000 of the principal per year that London completes as Virginia’s head coach.
If London is fired without cause, he would not be required to repay.
If he is fired for cause or terminates without cause, he would have to pay the remaining principal and interest within 30 days. In the latter case, he also would owe the university a buyout payment.
Iowa: When Kirk Ferentz received a new contract this year, the deal included a one-time signing bonus of $400,000 to Ferentz and his assistants. Ferentz was to receive $100,000. The remainder was to be divided among the nine full-time assistant coaches, the head and first assistant strength coaches and the director of football operations, with the amounts determined by Ferentz and the athletics director.
Marshall: The buyout that Doc Holliday has for early termination — $600,000 for each remaining year on his five-year contract — includes the following caveat: Marshall’s athletics director has the right to designate, in writing, one college head coaching position for Holliday’s buyout would be $3 million if he accepts the designated position within one year of his resignation from Marshall.
According to a document obtained by USA TODAY in response to a freedom of information request, the designated school is Marshall’s in-state rival, and Holliday’s previous employer, West Virginia.
