In a bold move last week, the University of Kentucky made John Calipari the highest paid coach in NCAA history by signing him to an eight-year, $31.5 million contract. Calipari’s salary is paid for exclusively by the Kentucky basketball program’s exorbitant budget. But we can’t help but wonder whether some of the new coach’s salary could be better used to help the university academically in a time when both the state of Kentucky and the nation in general are in a fiscal crisis.