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Lane Kiffin signed a six-year agreement Sunday morning that averages $2.375 million dollars a year. Here’s how it breaks down:
Annual Compensation
2009 $2 million
2010 $2.15 million
2011 $2.3 million
2012 $2.45 million
2013 $2.6 million
2014 $2.75 million
Buyout
Termination by Kiffin UT
2009 $1 million $7.5 million
2010 $800,000 $7.5 million
2011 $600,000 $6.25 million
2012 $400,000 $6.25 million
2013 $200,000 $5 million
2014 N/A $5 million
Performance Bonuses
- Non-BCS bowl: $40,000
- SEC East (tie): $40,000
- Academic performance*: $40,000
- SEC coach of the year: $50,000+
- National coach of the year: $50,000+
- SEC Championship game appearance: $80,000
- SEC Championship: $120,000
- BCS bowl: $120,000
- BCS Championship game appearance: $160,000
- First-place AP or USA Today final ranking: $160,000
- BCS national championship: $280,000
* Football team must have an APR of 925 or higher; + To be distributed to football staff by head coach
Source: University of Tennessee
© 2008, Knoxville News Sentinel Co.
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