Jim Harbaugh is making $7.5 million this season to coach Michigan football. Jimbo Fisher is making roughly the same at Texas A&M. Only Alabama’s Nick Saban ($8.3 million) and Ohio State’s Urban Meyer ($7.6 million) are making more.
Such soaring salaries seem more suited to Wall Street than Sesame Street, but let’s borrow a sing-song game from the venerable children’s show anyway: One of these things is not like the others.
Three of these coaches have won national championships. Harbaugh has not.
Nor has he won a Big Ten championship, or even a division title; his Wolverines have finished third, third and fourth in the Big Ten East.