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August 2010, Sports Business
Non-Compete Clauses Coming to Coaches' Contracts
The Birmingham News has an excellent column suggesting that the new trend in coaching contracts will be the insertion of a non-compete clause preventing coaches from leaving to go to rival schools. The enforceability of such clauses rests with the reasonableness of the restriction.
Bobby Petrino's Arkansas deal contains perhaps the most famous non-compete clause in the business. He's under contract with the Razorbacks through December 2014, but that contract contains a clause designed to prevent him from coaching at another SEC West school through 2012.
The clause says that Petrino "and/or any individual or entity acting on Coach's behalf shall not seek or accept employment in any coaching capacity with any other member institution of the Western Division of the SEC." To read more, click here.