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December 22, 2011 in Sports
Letter of agreement spells out terms of Leach’s contract
PULLMAN – Mike Leach hasn’t officially signed a contract with Washington State, but the letter of agreement he entered into with athletic director Bill Moos in late November outlines what that contract will entail.
The letter, obtained by The Spokesman-Review through a public records request, “summarizes the terms of an offer and acceptance for the head football coach position” at Washington State and states they will be incorporated into a formal contract.
When that contract is signed, it will cover a five-year span, expiring at the end of December 2016. After two years, however, the contract rolls over into another five years and does so each ensuing year unless either party decides to stop the automatic extension.
If Leach is fired without cause, he receives 60 percent of the money remaining on the agreement.
As reported previously, Leach will receive a base salary of $2 million per year, with guaranteed supplemental income of $250,000 each year from product endorsement and media obligations.
There are also 10 incentives in the agreement, ranging from $200,000 for reaching the BCS title game to $25,000 for having the highest graduation rates for a Pac-12 public school.
Leach also will have access to one of WSU’s new 12-seat suites plus 20 other tickets, the use of two cars and a country club or health club membership.
The buyout in the agreement begins at $2.25 million, with it reducing by $450,000 each year until reaching zero in year five.
• Former Arizona defensive line coach Joe Salave’a has joined Leach’s staff, The Spokesman-Review has learned, although no official announcement has been made.
Salave’a played defensive tackle at Arizona in the mid-1990s, then for nine years in the NFL with Tennessee, San Diego and Washington. He began his coaching career under former Arizona coach Dick Tomey at San Jose State in 2008 before moving on to UA last year.
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8ball on December 22 at 4:55 a.m.
Up to $11 million (with country club privileges) to oversee kids bashing their brains into pulp. They find money for this …. while true education funding gets cut to the bone as tuitions rise.
SpokaneSportsFan on December 22 at 7:54 a.m.
Before we have any more uneducated comments regarding where the money comes from to fund this salary, here it is: funding is generated by the new TV contract the Pac-12 entered into along with revenues the athletic (re: football) programs generate. Money DOES NOT come from state/educational funds.
If you want to rail about the amount of money the head coach of a college football program makes, fine, knock yourself out. But do not argue that is comes at the expense of the education of college students at WSU.