Clemson was always this financial juggernaut that was impossible for them to not eventually be champions. Nope, what happened is they fired their under-performing coaching staff and look what happened! It's not rocket science...

Clemson VT
$40,445,377 $45,730,485 2005
$46,430,106 $48,658,004 2006
$56,028,881 $65,602,382 2007
$59,180,652 $64,412,343 2008
$61,416,494 $60,895,876 2009
$57,562,999 $63,613,464 2010
$61,174,977 $66,909,557 2011
$70,002,280 $70,723,748 2012
$69,061,398 $70,030,484 2013
$74,793,322 $73,065,186 2014
$83,534,371 $80,230,095 2015
$104,823,057 $83,702,698 2016
$112,600,964 $87,427,526 2017