Details of Jedd Fisch's contract at Arizona
The hire of Patriots quarterbacks coach Jedd Fisch was made official today at Arizona.
Taking over for Kevin Sumlin, who had a staff salary pool that ranked at the bottom of the league, there had been a lot of speculation leading up to Fisch's hire about the type of contract the new head coach would get.
247 lays out the details of Fisch's deal, which is for five-years and starts at $1.8 million in base salary before climbing to $2 million in year three, $2.2 million in year four and culminating at $2.3 million in year five. Fisch will make an additional $500k annually for additional duties required, plus $100k from an agreement for a radio show from IMG and a $200k agreement from Nike.
In total, that puts Fisch's salary starting at $2.6 (not counting a 20% COVID related reduction) and will escalate to $3.1 million in year five of the deal. Fisch will be eligible for $400k in retention pay if he's still with the program after year four.
That salary would rank at the bottom of what fellow PAC-12 programs (at least those that publicly share their salaries with the USA Today salary database) have pledged to their coaches. The next closest would be Oregon State's Jonathan Smith, who makes $2.4 million annually.
For some perspective, Arizona paid Kevin Sumlin $3.1 million per year.
For his assistant salary pool, Fisch will get $3.7 million to work with, which is a slight improvement from $3.4 million that Sumlin had when he was first hired in 2018.
Fisch can earn the following notable incentives: Pac-12 South title ($100k), PAC-12 Conference Championship ($200k), non-CFP non-major bowl game ($25k), chosen to participate in major non-CFP bowl game ($100k) and winning that bowl game ($100k), participating in a CFB Bowl Game ($150k), playing in the CFP Title game ($200k) and winning the national title ($300k).
The buyout terms include a payout of 65% for the remainder of the contract value if he were to be fired without cause, and if Fisch were to leave during or after year one of his contract he would owe $6 million, that would decrease to $5 million during or after year two and $3 million during or after year three, and finally to $1.5 million in year four and decreases further to just $1 million during year 5.
See more terms of the deal via 247, and see a copy of a portion of it below.
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