Incredibly, there was a time when Nick Saban was considered overpaid as the Alabama football coach.
Seriously.
Saban’s initial eight-year, $32 million contract (an actual pay cut from his Miami Dolphins salary, but that’s another story …) became a national kerfluffle when it was revealed.
“Too much money!”, they crowed.
“No one is worth that much!”, the pundits railed.
“Think of the poor professors!”, the academia whined.
In 2008, a year before Saban’s Tide won the first of four national championships during his tenure, Forbes magazine postulated that Saban’s deal (the highest ever paid to a college football coach at the time) made him The Most Powerful Coach in Sports.