Clemson football salary details

TigerNet Staff · Correspondent · Thursday, April 12 2012

From Travis Sawchik of Post and Courier:

Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney earned 38.7 percent of Clemson’s total football staff compensation last season, the second lowest share for a head coach at a BCS public school. Swinney’s percentage will decline to 31 percent this season — the lowest among major conference schools — because of significant increases in his assistant coaches’ salaries.
Clemson’s Chad Morris (offensive coordinator) and Brent Venables (defensive coordinator) are among the highest paid assistants in the country. No other BCS program has two assistants whose combined salaries are more than what the head coach is paid.

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