Clemson's DC Venables set to make $2 million/year.

Bamabuzzard · Feb 9, 2018

I'm now convinced when Dabo retires from football he's going to be some sort of traveling evangelist. Not only was he able to convince his NFL ready DL'men to come back for another year, he somehow convinces his DC to stay and convinces the school to pay him $2 million per year. He sure knows how to put the "voo-doo" spell on folks. LOL! Good lord, $2 million/year for a coordinator. I went into the wrong profession.

http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/22372009/clemson-tigers-defensive-coordinator-brent-venables-earn-2-million-annually

BamaMoon · Feb 9, 2018

Might be the trend of the future.

If you have a great/highly desired coordinator and you don't want the turnover in coaching/recruiting (sound familiar?), schools might start paying their coordinators head coaching pay to keep the consistency.

RTR91 · Feb 9, 2018

I remember the Tuscaloosa News writers discussing this a bit on one of the podcasts in the fall. Why would a high profile coordinator want to go to a G5 school to be a HC when he can make more money by staying as a coordinator until a good P5 job opens?

RollTide_HTTR · Feb 9, 2018

He's been great for them. I still wonder when he gets a HC job because it must be coming soon.

RedWave · Feb 9, 2018

RollTide_HTTR said:
He's been great for them. I still wonder when he gets a HC job because it must be coming soon.

I am not convinced he wants that position. He may just do the Bud Foster thing and remain a coordinator for life. I probably would at his pay scale. Less hassle than being HC.

Bamabuzzard · Feb 9, 2018

RTR91 said:
I remember the Tuscaloosa News writers discussing this a bit on one of the podcasts in the fall. Why would a high profile coordinator want to go to a G5 school to be a HC when he can make more money by staying as a coordinator until a good P5 job opens?

I maybe wrong but since Venable's name has become so popular there have been several P5 job openings that I would think fit the bill of "good" jobs. But it is hard to blame the guy, if they're going to pay you head coaching money to be a coordinator and not have the responsibilities of a HC. Then why not take it and run?!

selmaborntidefan · Feb 9, 2018

Selling the seniors likely didn’t take much. “Hey, FSU is in transition and for Pete’s sake Miami has Mark Richt; we’re heading back to the playoffs!”

Bamabuzzard · Feb 9, 2018

selmaborntidefan said:
Selling the seniors likely didn’t take much. “Hey, FSU is in transition and for Pete’s sake Miami has Mark Richt; we’re heading back to the playoffs!”

I think it's a tougher sell than that. They've already won a national title and asking a kid to exercise patience for another year of having millions on top of millions of dollars dropped into his bank account is much harder than telling them FSU is in transition and they've got a great chance to get back to the college football playoffs. Dabo had to pull out his best "blue steele" to convert these youngsters.

TideEngineer08 · Feb 9, 2018

I remember when this guy was basically fired at Oklahoma.

Moro Creek · Feb 9, 2018

If a head coach is worth 7 mil, a DC or OC is worth 2.

Bamabuzzard · Feb 9, 2018

Moro Creek said:
If a head coach is worth 7 mil, a DC or OC is worth 2.

I'm an excellent defensive coordinator

VirginiaTide57 · Feb 9, 2018

RedWave said:
I am not convinced he wants that position. He may just do the Bud Foster thing and remain a coordinator for life. I probably would at his pay scale. Less hassle than being HC.

I think Foster was on the interview circuit a fair amount but never won the job.

bamamick · Feb 9, 2018

If you are paying people like Gus Malzahn seven million dollars why would it surprise you if a P5 school pays a valued coordinator a couple of million? Isn't LSU paying Aranda $1.8 million? This IS the wave of the future, at least at 'football priority' schools.

rtr

RTR91 · Feb 9, 2018

bamamick said:
If you are paying people like Gus Malzahn seven million dollars why would it surprise you if a P5 school pays a valued coordinator a couple of million? Isn't LSU paying Aranda $1.8 million? This IS the wave of the future, at least at 'football priority' schools.

rtr

IIRC, Aranda was the first $2 million DC.

mrusso · Feb 9, 2018

Bamabuzzard said:
I'm an excellent defensive coordinator

I've been told by some that I'm offensive. Pay me 2mil and I'll be happy to coordinate/coach others in the art of being offensive.

runtheoption22 · Feb 9, 2018

Bamabuzzard said:
I think it's a tougher sell than that. They've already won a national title and asking a kid to exercise patience for another year of having millions on top of millions of dollars dropped into his bank account is much harder than telling them FSU is in transition and they've got a great chance to get back to the college football playoffs. Dabo had to pull out his best "blue steele" to convert these youngsters.

Which is cheating the kids. There are at least two that should be banking millions in a few months. Things like that make me nervous about him and the perpetual "when CNS retires" scenario.

Bamabuzzard · Feb 9, 2018

runtheoption22 said:
Which is cheating the kids. *There are at least two that should be banking millions in a few months. **Things like that make me nervous about him and the perpetual "when CNS retires" scenario.

* And it would be a crying shame if any of them had a season ending (potentially career ending) injury while playing with a Clemson jersey on.

**He definitely doesn't come without reservations.

UntouchableCrew · Feb 9, 2018

I think it's smart on Clemson's part. They're on a historic run, I'd spend what it took to keep that going as well.

STONECOLDSABAN · Feb 9, 2018

selmaborntidefan said:
Selling the seniors likely didn’t take much. “Hey, FSU is in transition and for Pete’s sake Miami has Mark Richt; we’re heading back to the playoffs!”

Yeah but Pizza parties over millions of dollars ??? I am starting to think Dabo would make a pretty terrifying cult leader.

crimsonaudio · Feb 9, 2018

TideEngineer08 said:
I remember when this guy was basically fired at Oklahoma.

Well, Bob brought his brother back (who sucks as a DC). Most every OU fan I know has wanted Mike gone since arrived - and many are convinced that Bob made Riley promise to keep Mike on staff for a bit.

I mean, that's the only logical reason for Mike Stoops to be employed at this point...

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