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I don't see the issue. He's the best coach in college football. He's won multiple national titles. Alabama has a huge fan base and generates a lot of revenue. Nick Saban has generated the school of Alabama (and probably the state from visitors to T-town on Gameday buying food and other misc. items in-town) a whole lot of money.
He'll figure it out if he's not, last I checked he almost went to the SB with Alex Smith. He did lots with Andrew Luck. So not overly concerned in this department.
Wasn't a bad college coach. I think he'd be able to win a championship if he stayed. College coaches don't always translate well to the pros, but it's easier to get that way than the other way around IMO.
Presidents/ADs must hate the Saban situation, but cfb coaches must love it. Without him making as much as he does, these coaches don't get their pay.
Well yeah, college is the glorified minors. How many people would watch college football and basketball without an affiliation to the schools? I agree, college in general is a step down but Texas isn't as much as most places and they are the closest thing to a pro team as I made reference to earlier with their own network, fanbase, revenue, etc.
I'd be curious to see if there has been a study on the value that each coach has brought to their school, or if there's a regression with the expected pay vs. actual pay, to see who really is overpaid/underpaid.
Each individual coach, that be a lot, since there's been 110+ to do and it's hard to measure, their exact impact. And in particular the expected pay, the lower profile decisions probably didn't get done at the time. But in Saban's case, I'm sure they did studies both prior to and since he's been there. Safe to say, he exceeded their wildest expectations.
There'd def. be a lot of variables you'd have to account for, but I think you could get a pretty reasonable E($) with the right amount of variables that actually affect salary (win%, bowl game win%, etc.?)
Attendance and revenue would get to the heart of it. Also, measuring outside local businesses (hotels, restaurants, etc) -- were they able to raise rates, are the hotels at higher capacity, how are the restaurants foot traffic on gameday. One of the things I remember was when CU only had 5 home games during Embree's first year, the local businesses were furious because they always count on gamedays to give them more business.
It's inevitable until people stop going to/watching games as well as buying merchandise and donating to schools. Maybe some regression will come eventually?
