WKU's Petrino headed back to Louisville

[BGSU33]

Looks like next year's matchup between BG and WKU will now feature two new head coaches. I also saw WKU's DB Jonathan Dowling (Florida transfer) is leaving early for the NFL.

[BGSU33]

Here's something I found very interesting about looking at his contract buyout:

Petrino signed a four-year contract with Western Kentucky in December 2012. The deal has a base salary of $850,000 and includes clauses in which the oft-traveled coach must repay the school $1.2 million in six installments beginning a month after any early exit, while the program that hires him must agree to schedule a two-year, home-and-home series with WKU.

I think that is a very interesting thing to add to a contract for a school. While it isn't as big of a deal to see Louisville make a return trip to Bowling Green, can you imagine if he had gone to a much bigger school such as Ohio State, Alabama, or other major schools along those lines. I think that is an interesting clause added to their buyout and it will be interesting to see if other schools also add it to their coaches buyouts also.

[Schadenfreude]

Also, that is a *lot* of money. Shocking to me that Western Kentucky can afford that.

[mscarn]

Supposedly they are going to promote offensive coordinator Jeff Brohm (their own Scheier/Elko, as it were) in the interests of continuity.

[Class of 61]

Also, that is a *lot* of money. Shocking to me that Western Kentucky can afford that.

Schad,
I agree about 850K for WKU's job, but they hired a "big name" coach and probably had to pay "big name" coach salaries (so to speak) to get him. Bigger surprise is that Louisville is taking him back.

[Rollo83]

He's wife isn't taking him back...