Texas Nixes Use of Some Multiyear Guaranteed Deals

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University of Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte is reverting to a policy the school had used for decades to award assistant coaches and other athletic department staff members one-year appointment letters as opposed to multiyear guaranteed contracts.

Del Conte's predecessor Steve Patterson had changed the longstanding practice in 2015, when he gave then football coach Charlie Strong and nine assistants guaranteed multiyear contracts, a first in UT history. Amid rampant turnover in which new coaches also received multiyear deals, the policy wound up costing Texas $7.26 million in severance in 2016-17, according to audited figures reviewed by the Austin American-Statesman. Strong was fired after the 2016 season, and his successor Mike Perrin continued the multiyear contract approach.

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