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Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Johnson’s incentives: What would you add?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
New Georgia Tech football coach Paul Johnson will get a minimum of $11,225,000 if he stays for the full seven years of his soon-to-be-finalized contract.
The story I reported today details the terms of the deal; I won’t repeat them here. There are incentives for on-the-field success, measured by championships and bowl games, and for academic success, measured by graduation rates and academic performance rates.
Johnson is likely to collect a sizeable amount of additional income. His history of success at Georgia Southern and Navy suggests he’ll be able to continue Tech’s streak of earning bowl invitations, and the APR incentives are eminently reachable. In fact, Tech’s most recent APR average for football is 959, which would trigger a $75,000 bonus for Johnson.
One incentive that didn’t get carried over from the previous coach’s deal: Chan Gailey’s assistants would have received $5,000 apiece every time one of Gailey’s teams beat Georgia. That, of course, was an incentive Tech’s athletics department never paid. (I mention this not to be nasty to the Yellow Jackets but to point out one of the chief ways in which the incentives are different for Johnson than they were for Gailey. His success in rivalry games at Navy suggests he will find a way to win against Georgia. It will be interesting to see how often.)
What do you think of Johnson’s contract terms? What incentives would you have added?
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