New York Times Interviews Bob Lattinville on Complicated Coaches Contracts in College Football

From the Sideline to the Bottom Line

From NYTimes.com, December 31, 2011.

Compensation in major college football has become increasingly complicated. Actual coaching is just one of the many things for which coaches find themselves financially rewarded.

With the culmination of the college football season at the Bowl Championship Series title game, the New York Times examined the complex employment contacts for football coaches. Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP attorney Bob Lattinville, who chairs the firm's sports law practice and represents coaches in contract matters, offered his perspective to the newspaper.

"Twenty years ago it was not uncommon to have a coach’s employment secured with a handshake. This practice has given way to 20- and 30-page employment contracts that require a working knowledge of state and federal employment law, income taxation and a host of esoteric N.C.A.A. and athletic conference rules and procedures. You’ve got to know a whole lot more today to understand the economics and operation of a college coach’s contract.”

Read the full New York Times article: From the Sideline to the Bottom Line