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The University of Michigan athletic department employed 344 people in the 2015-16 school year, according to state records. USA Today released its annual college football coaching salary database and there's been plenty of attention and hand-wringing over the compensation of one of those employees, Jim Harbaugh, who is getting $9,004,000 this year, the highest in the sport. How, exactly, the argument goes, can college sports cry poverty and fairness when one guy is making that much as the actual players are limited to tuition, room, board and a fairly humble stipend that was only pried loose after much tumult and litigation?