{"id":341554,"date":"2025-12-10T19:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T19:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/341554\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T19:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T19:03:08","slug":"details-of-jamarcus-shephards-5-year-contract-with-oregon-state-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/341554\/","title":{"rendered":"Details of JaMarcus Shephard\u2019s 5-year contract with Oregon State football"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oregon State<\/a> football has a new leader in head coach JaMarcus Shephard, and he is signed to a five-year contract to lead the Beavers into the future.<\/p>\n

Shephard will make $1.6 million in 2026 with an annual increase of $75,000, according to a memorandum of understanding between OSU athletic director Scott Barnes and Shephard, signed by both parties on Nov. 28. That includes a $960,000 base salary and $640,000 in ancillary\/supplemental income.<\/p>\n

The Oregonian\/OregonLive obtained the details of Shephard\u2019s employment contract Wednesday via public records request.<\/p>\n

By comparison, previous OSU coach Trent Bray\u2019s contract paid him $2 million total per year, parsed out to a $1.2 million base salary and $800,000 in non-salary compensation. OSU also ended up paying \u2014 with donor-generated funds \u2014 $4 million to buy out Bray when it fired him midway through the 2025 season.<\/p>\n

Shephard will trigger an automatic, one-year contract extension should the Beavers make it to the Pac-12 championship game during his tenure. He could also earn up to $650,000 per year in additional performance incentives, according to the MOU.<\/p>\n

Shephard will also receive $20,000 in relocation assistance and $3,000 per month for four months to pay for any temporary housing as his family makes the move to Corvallis. He will also receive a complimentary car, country club membership, a suite in Reser Stadium and several other, typical amenities that come with being a head coach.<\/p>\n

In this era of constant movement in college football, a buyout clause is in place for Shephard should he choose to leave OSU, and it scales down over the years.<\/p>\n

If he gives notice of his departure before the first year is up, Shephard and\/or his future employer would be required to pay OSU $6 million. That drops to $4.8 million in the second year, $3.6 million in the third year, $2.4 million in the fourth year and $1.2 million in the fifth and final year of the current contract.<\/p>\n

If OSU fires Shephard without cause before the contract is up, it would owe him 70% of his total annual salary on a monthly basis for the remainder of the term. Any money Shephard would earn at another job after that firing could offset those costs for OSU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oregon State football has a new leader in head coach JaMarcus Shephard, and he is signed to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[109244,1607,399,398,396,397,38940,109245,99],"class_list":["post-341554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-beavers-football","tag-college-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-oregon-state-beavers-football","tag-osu-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}