Swinney ranked 4th most powerful CFB coach |
Forbes.com has put out its annual ranked list of the
most powerful coaches in college football and Clemson's Dabo Swinney appears on the list (1st time) at #4 overall.
The Forbes' rankings consist of a coach's salary, school's total coaching budget, athletic spending and cost of employer to terminate the contract at the end of the year. (via Forbes) He’s the lowest-paid of the ten men here, with a salary of $3.2 million. Yet if Clemson were to fire Swinney next year, the school would reportedly owe him close to $21 million, which is just $4 million less than it spent on its entire football program last year. And the $22 million of that spending not going into Swinney’s pocket makes up nearly 30% of Clemson’s total athletic expenses, the fourth-highest mark for coaches on our list. 
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