This has to be a joke comment. No one is more disgusted by the salaries of coaches of supposed amateur sports than me, but the fact is a simple choice has to be made. Do you want a winning team and to fill the big house, or do you want a 2 win team and it’s 90% empty? Finding a coach willing to take a more appropriate $50k a year will result in the latter.
The fact is that UM is so loaded with resources that Harbaugh’s salary is like a 7 year old’s allowance. The sports budget is separate from academics and will remain so, unlike the “schools” that charge hefty student fees to pay the coach. UM would survive just fine without football. Look at all the top 25 programs and tell me that academics isn’t a priority here.