I wish we could write a contract that says Hawk's base salary is 100k and he gets 100k bonus per win. 200k bonus for winning the north, 500k bonus for winning the big 12 and a 1.5 million bonus for winning a national title. We would have been out 400k the past few years and if he actually wins it all, it is worth every penny. Too bad no coach would agree to that.
I dont know about Football that much, but there are MANY Basketball Coaches that have their contracts simular to that. If you look up salaries for coaches you will see many of them at $0. Or their salaries are in the $100-250k range, and they are all big time coaches, but then look at their performance clauses, they make in the $1.5-2 mil range, even with a mediocure season.
There are pluses and minuses witht his philosophy, it puts the pressure on to win, but many say it also puts the pressure on to cheat. Probably a reason why CU will never go to it.