From the Charleston Daily Mail - CJL contract/buyout

[Brad]

I wasn't aware of these details, maybe you were:

BUYOUTS, YOU ask?

Here's further evidence that former West Virginia football Coach Rich Rodriguez, despite having eight months to sign his last (and now disputed) Mountaineer contract, got bad advice or was just lost in his own glory before leaving for Michigan.

After Rodriguez left a WVU deal that would have yielded $2 million-plus for the remaining six years, South Florida made Jim Leavitt the Big East Conference's highest-paid football coach ($1.8 million annual average) with a seven-year, $12.6 million contract.

The deal begins this season at $1.5 million and hikes by $100,000 annually through 2014. USF tore up a $1 million per year deal under which Leavitt had worked for two years. He's nearly tripled his 2005 salary of $538,000.

Leavitt's buyout is $1 million, decreasing by $100,000 annually on every Dec. 31 through 2012.

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[D1DDY]

yes sir

[crambone]

MAKIN' IT RAIN!

[Bull Martin]

I'll have to ask him for a couple hundred dollars next time I see him.

[Jihme]

lets hope we never have to deal with these numbers again and he just stays here forever.  he'd get a statue!

[Matt]

lets hope we never have to deal with these numbers again and he just stays here forever.  he'd get a statue!

at the rate he is going....he will get a statue even if he didnt coach another year after this current deal is up.

at the end of this deal he will of been the head coach at USF for almost 20 years.  not many programs can say they have had 1 coach for 20 years...let alone have a coach who built a program like CJL did.

[Mama_Bull]

lets hope we never have to deal with these numbers again and he just stays here forever.  he'd get a statue!

at the rate he is going....he will get a statue even if he didnt coach another year after this current deal is up.

at the end of this deal he will of been the head coach at USF for almost 20 years.  not many programs can say they have had 1 coach for 20 years...let alone have a coach who built a program like CJL did.

AMEN TO THAT!!  My gut tells me that he's here until he retires.  It's hard to picture anyone other than CJL heading up the football program.

[80mins]

leavitt hasn't proven anything

why does usf keep throwing money at a problem

LEAVITT needs to perform to make that kind of money

[flsportsfan83]

leavitt hasn't proven anything

why does usf keep throwing money at a problem

LEAVITT needs to perform to make that kind of money

Is that Smazza

[80mins]

leavitt hasn't proven anything

why does usf keep throwing money at a problem

LEAVITT needs to perform to make that kind of money

Is that Smazza

That was the intent, yes.