http://www.espn.com/college-football/sto...-extension

Quote:Clemson defensive coordinator Brent Venables is receiving a five-year, $11.6 million contract, sources told ESPN. Clemson's board of trustees will formally approve the new contract at its meeting Thursday morning.

Yahoo! Sports first reported the details of the contract, believed to be the largest total compensation ever for a college football assistant coach. LSU defensive coordinator Dave Aranda will continue to have the highest annual salary for an assistant after agreeing in January to a four-year, $10 million deal to remain with the school.

Venables, 47, will earn $2 million annually in his new deal, with a $200,000 retention bonus in the first two years and a $400,000 retention bonus in the final three years.

Quote:The Tigers' defense has annually been one of the nation's best, and Venables' name has surfaced for several head-coaching vacancies in recent years. According to the new contract, Venables will not have to pay a buyout if he leaves Clemson for a head-coaching job but would owe the school 25 percent of his remaining compensation if he departs for another assistant coach position.

It's kinda a match made in heaven...... due to they keep paying him and it's becoming clear he doesn't want to leave. So they keep paying him more to do exactly what he love's where he love's it.

Win/Win.

At $2M/year, it guarantees that 80-90% of the G5 will never offer him a HC position. He's at the salary level where only another P5 team would look to poach.

I am amazed that no one in the MW or AAC backed up the Brinks truck and offered him $2.5-3m earlier. He's worth it.

Great for Clemson.