Jones' contract, which was approved by the UH Board of Regents in June and signed by Jones this month, was released to several Hawai'i media outlets yesterday.

Jones, who is in Las Vegas, declined to comment on the contract, and his agent, Leigh Steinberg, did not return calls to The Advertiser last night. The Warriors will play at Nevada-Las Vegas today.

According to the contract, Jones will be paid an annual salary of $400,008. Terms of the deal started on July 1, and will end on June 30, 2008.

UH officials announced in June that private donors would match that annual salary, bringing Jones' total annual salary to $800,016. The total annual salary makes him Hawai'i's highest-paid state employee.

Neither the names of the private donors nor the intent of those private donors to match the UH salary can be found in the contract.

"There has been so much speculation about the donors," UH athletic director Herman Frazier said. "All I can say is these people are pillars of the community who want to see the University of Hawai'i be successful. If they don't want the public to know who they are, that's their right. June (Jones) doesn't even know who all of the donors are."

Frazier said the donors are not under contract with UH.

"These are all loyal donors," he said. "Sure, things could happen three to five years down the line, but we have faith that these donors will come through for the length of (Jones') contract."

In addition to the annual salary, Jones could earn as much as $130,000 per year in bonus pay, including $50,000 for taking UH to a BCS bowl game and $20,000 for winning the Western Athletic Conference championship. Jones can also earn $15,000 if football season ticket sales reach 32,500, and an additional $15,000 if sales reach 40,000.

"It's a business contract," Frazier said. "If we make more money, then he makes more money."

Jones is also allowed to earn additional income from sports camps, television and radio programs, and endorsement or consultation contracts with shoe, apparel or equipment manufacturers.

Unlike the previous contract, the new deal does not include a bonus or payment for:

• Academic progress on the football team.
• Achieving a winning record.
• Private school tuition for two children.

In Jones' previous contract, there was a bonus of $10,000 when the grade-point average for his first-year scholarship players was 2.7 or higher at the end of their first academic year, and another $10,000 for unspecified team academic achievement "based on academic criteria to be agreed upon between the athletics director and (Jones) on an annual basis."

"We decided that the academic people will handle the academic side of the team," Frazier said. "That's not to say that the football coaches are not responsible for the academics of their players, because they still are. It was a long, hard discussion, but we all decided in the end to keep the academic side out of the contract."

Another provision in the previous contract gave Jones an extra $17,500 for every victory after six wins during a season. Last season, for example, Jones earned a $70,000 bonus because the Warriors won 10 games.

The previous contract also provided private school tuition for two of Jones' children who were living in Hawai'i at the time. His daughter is now a high school graduate; his son attends a Mainland school.

There is a morals clause in Jones' new contract, stating that the contract can be terminated in case of "any conduct of coach that constitutes moral turpitude, or which would tend to bring public disrespect, contempt or ridicule upon university, or failure to follow the high moral and ethical standards commonly expected of coach as a leading representative of the Athletics Department."

During the five-year contract, Jones is not allowed to accept a football coaching position at any other NCAA program without first negotiating a settlement with UH.

However, during the fourth and fifth years of the contract, Jones can accept a job as a NFL head coach, providing he informs UH of his intentions between Nov. 1 and Jan. 7 of that season. If Jones does accept a head coaching position in the NFL while under contract with UH, he would be responsible for paying $400,008 to UH as "liquidated damages."

Jones' previous contract, which was supposed to run from Dec. 31, 1998, through Dec. 30, 2003, paid him an annual salary of $210,000. However, he received an additional $40,000 as a housing allowance, and $70,000 from radio and television deals.