re: Cam Cameron gets paid $600k 1st yr $1.3M 2nd, $1.5M 3rd

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Well my guess as to why it says "initially" for this year would be incentive clauses.

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Yeah. I thought about that, too. But I'm not sure it makes sense to have incentive clauses in year 1 that don't also show up in years 2 and 3. Or if the incentives in the later 2 years are proportional, then the disparity between 1 and 2 is still too great. My bet is that they're just structuring a total package in a way that works best for both parties. Maybe CC is getting a big payout from Baltimore and wants to defer some of the LSU salary into 2014 (and got a little bump for pushing it back). Or maybe LSU didn't want to hit their 2013 budget with the full amount. Or some of both. Just speculating, of course, but I'm not sure the incentive explanation holds up.