Doug Williams to Earn $250K Annually With New Deal; Performance Bonuses Included
Written by HBCU Digest, Posted in Grambling State University, Louisiana, Sports, SWAC Football
Grambling State head football coach Doug Williams will earn $250,000 annually under his new contract, the Shreveport Times today reports. The contract, retroactive to an original verbal agreement with GSU in March 2011, also contains performance-based, non-recurring salary escalators, which the Grambling State Foundation has agreed to subsidize up to $100,000 annually.
The bonuses include:
» $12,000 nonrecurring salary increase for winning the Bayou Classic
» $5,000 nonrecurring salary increase for winning the Port City Classic
» $5,000 nonrecurring salary increase for winning the State Fair Classic
» $10,000 nonrecurring salary increase if his team wins the SWAC Western Division
» $15,000 nonrecurring salary increase if his team wins the SWAC championship
» $10,000 nonrecurring salary increase if at the end of the football season, he guides the team to a top-10 ranking in the FCS polls
» $15,000 nonrecurring salary increase if he is named as the Black College National Coach of the Year
» $25,000 nonrecurring salary increase in all years that the football team meets the NCAA academic performance rate.
This is over due. Mr Willimas is doing a excellant job. The most important bouns is for his team to meet the NCAA academic performance rate.