Arkansas football coach Sam Pittman agrees to new contract spiced with stability

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Arkansas football coach Sam Pittman is at his dream job, so he and his new agent, Jimmy Sexton, used that in contract negotiations that have ended with a new contract and a non-compete clause for Pittman.

The clause means he will not accept another job.

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Head Football Coach Sam Pittman of the Arkansas Razorbacks calls the Hogs during a basketball game against the South Carolina Gamecocks at Bud Walton Arena on January 18, 2022 in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The Razorbacks defeated the Gamecocks 75-59. 

"It’s going to have a non-compete clause in it, and that’s about all I’ll say about it until (it is released in full)," Pittman said Saturday. "I’m glad it does. It allows us to recruit. There are a lot of different things in recruiting, but one of them happens to be stability. They can fire me whenever they get good and ready to, but I can’t leave. Don’t want to anyways, so we’re using that."

Pittman, 60, was Arkansas’ associate head coach and offensive line coach from 2013-15. He also has a Razorback statue outside his lake home.

Details have not been released, but Pittman said other terms have been settled. Sexton, who became Pittman’s agent last year, had asked Arkansas to give Pittman a seven-year contract worth approximately $50 million, or $7.14 million a year, last December.

For decades, Sexton has represented some of the highest paid college football coaches in the nation. Among his current clients are Alabama coach Nick Saban ($9.75 million a year), Texas A&M’s Jimbo Fisher ($9 million), Ole Miss’ Lane Kiffin ($7.25 million) and Georgia’s Kirby Smart ($7.1 million).

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