Someone on an Auburn board was saying he still has the clause to be paid $1 more than the next highest coach. I thought I heard they took it out when they gave him the new contract. Which is true? Thanks.
I think he still does, but I wonder about this clause. What if Notre Dame paid Jon Gruden 7 million a year to leave Tampa for the Irish. When you think about it a private school could pay someone even 10 million a year or somethign crazy would LSU actually pay Nick 10 million and 1 dollar?
The part of his contract was something to the effect of: If Saban wins the national championship then his salary is to become at least one dollar more than the highest salaried college coach at the time of winning the championship. If someone else gets a better/higher paying contract now, there is nothing in Saban's contract stating that LSU must match it and raise Saban's salary. I believe the national championship salary clause still stands though. So, if he wins another it will kick in again.
There is no longer any clause at all about being the highest paid coach, Skip didn't fall for that one again. He gets bonuses like all the other coaches now.
fall for? winning the NC is worth every penny and skip knows that. its just they have a working relationship and its understood he deserves to be paid as much as anyone in the college coaching profession and will continue to be rewarded as such.
I don't know if ND would ever offer that to Gruden but he will, absoultely, coach at ND before it's all said and done.
it may help if ND would win a bowl game at least once every decade. and leave little chuckie with MC.
That was actually how Sexton worded it in the article I read back then, with a little chuckle thrown in I'm sure.
Thats exactly what I was thinking. A couple a mil a year for a a NC....I'm sure any AD would go for it.
