re: Structuring contracts

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If you identify and hire a young, up and comer, you might get away with a modest base and high incentives, but once he has a good year, you'll have to match the market.

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Which is what happened with Gustav in 2013.

Where we went off the rails was getting Sextoned when Arky came calling in 2017. Hindsight is 50/50, as a wise man once said, but we really should have let him walk.

Of course then we would have probably ended up with Chadwick

I was curious what Cristobal's salary was in 2019.
Base Salary in 2019: $2.5 Million
Potential Bonuses:

- $500,000 for winning the College Football Playoff National Championship

- $250,000 for playing in the CFP National Championship Game

- $200,000 for playing in the the CFP Semi-Finals
- $175,000 for a CFP Bowl outside of the Semi-Finals
- $150,000 for winning the Pac-12 Championship

- $100,000 for any other bowl game when the Ducks have at least seven wins
- $100,000 for winning the Pac-12 North Division
- $100,000 for nine regular season wins
- $100,000 for ten regular season wins
- $200,000 for 11 regular season wins
- $250,000 for 12 regular season wins
- $100,000 for an APR academic grade of 985 or greater
- $25,000 for the Pac-12 Conference Coach of the Year award
- $50,000 for the AP or Walter Camp National Coach of the Year Award


eta link
https://247sports.com/college/oregon/ContentGallery/Oregon-Football-coaching-staff-contracts-Mario-Cristobal-129609215/#129609215_1

Lanier is right, the contracts are what the market will bear.

Sexton does have a lot of power, he literally is working on getting a coach in the hot seat a job....while he is working with another to replace him. But thats why he has the clients, because of his clout, and his clients in turn have the clout to demand more money because he is setting the scale.

You guys seen the contract he got for Saban. Saban said he wanted control of the progam and to be the highest paid head coach in college football for as long as he was there. He never has to negotiate a pay raise, the entire rest of the market does it for him, anyone gets signed to a larger contract....so does he.

But can you argue if he is worth it? He is the highest paid and he is tops in wins. May have sounded crazy when they signed him, but it seems to have worked out best for both.

A side note, they asked Saban what he thought of Jimmy Sexton. He said they were talking about his contract with Bama when he first signed and Jimmy said he had to call him back. Saban said, one of the biggest deals in my life and the guy is gonna call me back, but hey he has a lot of clients. Saban said later he found out the reason Sexton wanted to call him back was because he was at his kid's little league game and he was coming up to bat. Saban said you have to admire a man who has his priorities right.

Freep,

In the interviews I have seen of Sexton, he makes whoever he is talking to seem like the most important person in the room. I can see how the guy could steal your lunch money....and you would brag about it the next day.

And if you dont want to deal with him....well it sure limits your options for a coach.