At the end of May, the Virginia Cavaliers athletics program reached an agreement with head football coach Bronco Mendenhall to a contract extension that will keep the coach at UVA through January 2025. And while the deal remains mostly the same—annual base salary of $500,000, with increasing annual “supplemental compensation”—the new contract adds a provision allowing Mendenhall to retire without financial penalty starting December 5, 2022.
Under Mendenhall’s 2015 contract with UVA, he was obligated to pay $3 million if he left on or before December 4, 2018; that buyout decreased by $600,000 ever December 4th.