NCAA D1 Football Coaching Contracts

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Through a series of public records requests, HKM Employment Attorneys LLP obtained virtually every employment contract (including all appendices and exhibits) for every college head football coach for every public college or university.  You will not find here the employment contracts for the head coaches for private colleges, as those institutions are not subject to public record requests (sorry, no Notre Dame, BYU, University of Miami, Baylor, Stanford, TCU, and Northwestern.).  And you will not find the employment contracts for Temple, Penn State, or University of Pittsburgh, three colleges exempt from Pennsylvania’s public records laws (or so they say).

But you will find a total of 168 head coach contracts, and we have provided them for you.  Feel free to peruse them or download them.  Or, you can review our analysis, and we will continue to provide additional analysis going forward.

As to the individual coach pages, we tried to provide you a snapshot of their contract.  This is sometimes difficult as, in most employment contracts, there are lots of contingencies in the employment contract.

Further, if there is some analysis of these contracts that you want to read, or want us to write about, please let us know.  We are eager for ideas, and we encourage your input, and we are looking for additional writers also.   Enjoy.

Coach Contract Ranking – Top 25

  1. Nick Saban
  2. Jim Harbaugh
  3. Jimbo Fisher
  4. Urban Meyer
  5. Kevin Sumlin
  6. Kirby Smart
  7. Mike Gundy
  8. Kirk Ferentz
  9. Bret Bielema
  10. Dabo Swinney
  11. Ed Orgeron
  12. Chris Petersen
  13. Rich Rodriguez
  14. Gus Malzahn
  15. Will Muschamp
  16. Jim L Mora
  17. Hugh Freeze
  18. Mark Dantonio
  19. Bill Snyder
  20. Paul Chryst
  21. Dave Doeren
  22. Dan Mullen
  23. Tommy Tuberville
  24. Gary Andersen
  25. Kliff Kingsbury

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