First, WVU got a deal for DH at $1.5M.
Now to the important stuff. Is everybody trying to tick me off today!?!?? These salaries like most things in sports are out of hand. But it appears that sports are in the same arena as alcohol...absolutely recession proof! Then there is sex and Hollywood...they ain't hurting either, or the drug industry. But these are the gods of the day.
Because I can't think of another mechanism of merit, the government should withhold 3 dollars of funding for every dollar paid to a University employee above the Congressional pay rate! And a person receiving monetary award outside of the University coffers has to pay gift tax on top of income tax for those funds clearly initialized pursuant to taking their University position.
And they should add excise taxes to sports tickets, movies, concerts, and fast food restaurants. (Since we are too moralistic to legalize recreational drugs

and prostitution.)