This offseason was a crazy one for college football. We saw arguably the greatest coach of all time, [autotag]Nick Saban[/autotag], step down from his position for the Alabama Crimson Tide and call it a career.
Which started a game of musical chairs with coaches across the country. Now that things have started to settle down, 247Sports’ Brad Crawford took a look at the top 15 highest-paid coaches in the sport, and Oklahoma Sooners’ head man [autotag]Brent Venables[/autotag] has cracked the top 15, coming in at No. 15 making $7.25 million.
Venables contract details: Prior to his hiring ahead of Oklahoma’s 2022 season, Venables was one of college football’s highest-paid assistants as a defensive coordinator at Clemson, where he engineered the ACC’s top scoring defense nearly every year of his tenure. Venables made $2.5 million with the Tigers before seeing a sizable increase with the Sooners. Venables made $7.1 million in his first campaign before that number increased and he responded with 10 wins during the 2023 season at Oklahoma. – Crawford, 247Sports
The last line is the big one. Venables earned his money by helping lead Oklahoma to a 10-win season after going 6-7 the year prior. Now these next two years are going to be huge. Venables was brought in because [autotag]Joe Castiglione[/autotag] felt he was the best guy to lead Oklahoma into the [autotag]SEC[/autotag].
Now, it’s up to Venables to prove Castiglione right in that assessment and get Oklahoma back to competing for conference and national championships the next few seasons.
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