Perhaps, I am the only one that finds contract details fascinating, but here are the terms of the Ole Miss/Kermit Davis deal:
Base salary: 4 years $2.5 million per year (realize Davis did well at MTSU, but that is a lot of money to pay a coach that did not appear to have a ton of other options and was probably making between $500K and $750K at MTSU; would Davis not have taken the job had Ole Miss offered $1.75 per year?).
- Ole Miss buys out the remaining years of the MTSU contract
- $50,000 and $75,000 attendance bonus rewards (easier to meet with a larger seating capacity)
- $150K for winning 12 or more SEC games
- $50K for finishing in the top 4 in the SEC regular season
- $100K for winning the SEC regular season
- $50K for winning the SEC tourney
- $50K for making the NCAA tourney
- $25K for each NCAA tourney win
- $125K for making the Final 4
- $250K for winning the Natty
- $50K for winning the SEC COY
- $75K for wining the national COY
- $50K if the Ole Miss roster's APR is over 950
- $75K if the Ole Miss roster APR is over 975
$900K pool to pay three assistant coaches.
https://hoopdirt.com/ole-miss-releases-kermit-davis-contract-details/
Also, Winston-Salem State failed to renew the contract of head coach James Wilhemi after 4 seasons. WSSU went 5-22 this past year.