Michigan Friday: Are Football Coordinators Making Too Much Money?

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Clemson's defensive coordinator Brett Venables signed a 5 year contract worth 11.6 million dollars on Thursday.  That is clearly head coaching money at many schools.  Which means college football programs are figuring out that great OC's and DC's are worth the money and probably making more then the school's president.

The funny part is that Brett won't be the highest paid coordinator in college football.  That title goes to LSU's DC Dave Aranda who get $2.5M annually.  Which probably puts Dave inline as LSU's next head coach if things don't go well for Ed Orgeron this season.

If your wondering where Michigan's staff lands on that scale:

DC Don Brown makes $1.3M and is 5th highest paid Coordinator.
OC Pep Hamilton makes $1.15 which ranks him 11th

Drevno was also making the same salary as Pep before he left the program.

To answer the question in the title, I would say no.  They are making fair market value and have a very difficult job that doesn't have an off season due to recruiting.  You can see why coaches have left programs because they just don't pay their assistants.   Before Jimmy got to town, you could have probably put Michigan in that category as well.