Nick Saban is Worth Eleventy Billion Dollars

It is time to put Nick Saban’s salary package so far out of reach that even the 10-gallon hats in the Lone Star State would gulp at the prospect.

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…