This tread has taken some predictable goEMAW turns but your initial point is something i have often thought about. There was a time when Michael Jordan was making $30m a year (far more than the next highest paid player) when he was BY FAR the most exploited, underpaid player in all of sports. I often mused aloud that every NBA team should pitch in money to pay him because he was so valuable to the entire league. It's certainly interesting to consider whether Saban/Meyer/Swinney are in the same boat? Although we paid Bill no where close to what the top coaches were paid, the same argument could easily be made for him and what he did for KSU...clearly he has been incredibly underpaid relative to the value he has brought to KSU. There is obviously a law of diminishing returns and he has moved us so far up the graph, the last amount of value would be difficult to obtain at a price (cost) with a positive ROI. And even if it was positive, it would be nowhere near the ROI we've gotten on Bill's hire.