Efficiency of NCAAF Coaching Salaries, I.E. How Bad Charlie Weis Was

With Notre Dame just now finishing paying out Charlie Weis to NOT coach their football team, much has been made the past few days about how he was ultimately paid $1.6 million per win he achieved between Notre Dame and Kansas. That's $64.5m total for a record of 41-49.

That's really bad! Is it historically bad? I compiled this past year's head coach salaries (gathered from USA Today) and win/loss records to gauge some context.

Weis would have been right at the top of the list of worst pay per win coaches in FBS:

Most Inefficient
SCHOOL	CONF	COACH	Wins	Pay/Win	Rank
Virginia	ACC	Bronco Mendenhall	2	$1,637,500	1
Fresno State	Mt. West	Tim DeRuyter	1	$1,518,480	2
Michigan State	Big Ten	Mark Dantonio	3	$1,433,333	3
Texas	Big 12	Charlie Strong	5	$1,040,000	4
Rutgers	Big Ten	Chris Ash	2	$1,000,000	5
Mississippi	SEC	Hugh Freeze	5	$940,000	6
Michigan	Big Ten	Jim Harbaugh	10	$900,400	7
UCLA	Pac-12	Jim Mora	4	$862,500	8
Arizona	Pac-12	Rich Rodriguez	3	$833,333	9
Oregon	Pac-12	Mark Helfrich	4	$825,000	10

The most inefficient coach, Bronco Mendenhall of Virginia, is almost four times worse than the most efficient coach, Paul Petrino of Idaho:

Most Efficient
SCHOOL	CONF	COACH	Wins	Pay/Win	Rank
Idaho	Sun Belt	Paul Petrino	9	$46,345	1
Appalachian State	Sun Belt	Scott Satterfield	10	$52,500	2
Old Dominion	C-USA	Bobby Wilder	10	$55,459	3
Louisiana Tech	C-USA	Skip Holtz	9	$55,556	4
Hawaii	Mt. West	Nick Rolovich	7	$57,144	5
Eastern Michigan	MAC	Chris Creighton	7	$62,120	6
Western Michigan	MAC	P.J. Fleck	13	$62,797	7
Troy	Sun Belt	Neal Brown	10	$66,000	8
Southern Mississippi	C-USA	Jay Hopson	7	$71,429	9
Ohio	MAC	Frank Solich	8	$71,589	10

There aren't any Power 5 conference coaches on this "most efficient" list though. Restricting to these conferences crowns Mike MacIntyre of Colorado as #1:

SCHOOL	CONF	COACH	Wins	Pay/Win	Rank
Colorado	Pac-12	Mike MacIntyre	10	$201,105	1
Wisconsin	Big Ten	Paul Chryst	11	$245,455	2
North Carolina	ACC	Larry Fedora	8	$248,283	3
West Virginia	Big 12	Dana Holgorsen	10	$298,000	4
Washington	Pac-12	Chris Petersen	12	$300,000	5
Wake Forest	ACC	Dave Clawson	7	$301,881	6
Nebraska	Big Ten	Mike Riley	9	$311,111	7
North Carolina State	ACC	Dave Doeren	7	$314,286	8
Clemson	ACC	Dabo Swinney	14	$315,536	9
Virginia Tech	ACC	Justin Fuente	10	$320,000	10

A lot of ACC on this list, so you can a lot of mediocrity for your dollar here. For those curious, here's how the top 25 highest paid coaches fair:

Salary	SCHOOL	CONF	COACH	Wins	Pay/Win	Rank
1	Michigan	Big Ten	Jim Harbaugh	10	$900,400	113
2	Alabama	SEC	Nick Saban	14	$495,671	86
3	Ohio State	Big Ten	Urban Meyer	11	$545,727	92
4	Oklahoma	Big 12	Bob Stoops	11	$504,545	89
5	Florida State	ACC	Jimbo Fisher	10	$525,000	90
6	Texas	Big 12	Charlie Strong	5	$1,040,000	116
7	Texas A&M	SEC	Kevin Sumlin	8	$625,000	103
8	Auburn	SEC	Gus Malzahn	8	$590,625	100
9	Mississippi	SEC	Hugh Freeze	5	$940,000	114
10	Iowa	Big Ten	Kirk Ferentz	8	$562,500	94
11	Penn State	Big Ten	James Franklin	11	$409,091	79
12	Clemson	ACC	Dabo Swinney	14	$315,536	63
13	LSU	SEC	Les Miles	8	$537,500	91
14	Michigan State	Big Ten	Mark Dantonio	3	$1,433,333	117
15	Florida	SEC	Jim McElwain	9	$474,258	84
16	Mississippi State	SEC	Dan Mullen	6	$700,000	108
17	Arkansas	SEC	Bret Bielema	7	$585,714	98
18	Tennessee	SEC	Butch Jones	9	$456,667	82
19	Stanford	Pac-12	David Shaw	10	$406,722	78
20	Texas Christian	Big 12	Gary Patterson	6	$669,121	107
21	Louisville	ACC	Bobby Petrino	9	$431,159	81
22	Oklahoma State	Big 12	Mike Gundy	10	$377,500	72
23	Georgia	SEC	Kirby Smart	8	$469,200	83
24	Utah	Pac-12	Kyle Whittingham	9	$405,556	76
25	Washington	Pac-12	Chris Petersen	12	$300,000	58