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The Valenti Show

Ridiculous Incentives In CFB Head Coaches' Contracts

The Valenti Show

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Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Valenti has a list of insane incentives and stipulations within college football head coaches' contracts, which he shares with the guys.

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0:00.0

Okay, I got something fun for you guys.

0:01.9

If you want Tiger Talk, we did it at two, you want Lions, we did it at three, and we'll get back into those things.

0:07.7

But I want to have some fun.

0:08.7

So one of the things I always marvel at, Big Ten Media Days, is the contracts of college football coaches.

0:16.5

They don't make a whole hell of a lot of sense in that they are so over complicated.

0:22.4

You coach football, here's your salary, and then here's what you get from your apparel deal.

0:29.2

And, hey, you want to throw a bonus in for a national championship.

0:32.5

I'm cool with that, right?

0:33.9

But generally speaking, if you win, they redo these deals on the fly right right there'll be a buy

0:39.1

out clause in there somewhere what i have for you fox did this and i thought it was really

0:44.7

interesting and everybody can participate you canny david the listeners i just want you to enjoy the

0:50.6

folly i'm going to bring up some coaches and I'm going to give you some of the craziest things

0:55.8

that are in their contracts.

0:58.2

And I mean, Rico, when we, it's so stupid.

1:04.8

So let's start out with our man.

1:07.0

It's only right we start out with our guy, Scott Frost.

1:10.0

Okay.

1:10.7

And I mean, this is, you know, this is with our guy, Scott Frost, okay? Okay.

1:11.3

And I mean, this is, you know, this is a thing.

1:13.6

So Scott Frost's contract, he has $25,000 bonuses if his team is top 20 in specific stat categories.

1:25.7

Now, I'm not going to be flippant about this, but when a guy like Scott Frost

1:29.4

is making $4,000, $6 million, is the $25,000 bonus really necessary? So automatically on

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