His annual salary and benefits totaled $460,000, and his pension was an eye-popping $4.4 million - all approved by the trustees without adequate scrutiny.
That long-term investment has reaped a nice return: Federal tax breaks, direct subsidies, export subsidies, export credit guarantees and other benefits totaling billions.
Currently, salaries and benefits total 58 percent.
His pay and benefits, which ranked among the nation's highest for university presidents, totaled $837,000 last year.
The net benefit to the economy totals tens of billions a year.
In the year to 29 March, McCall's salary remained almost unchanged at £472,000, she received no bonus and her benefits totalled £26,000.
No luxury tax was imposed last season because player salaries and benefits totaled 60.2 percent of league revenue.
Those benefits could total $1.4 billion to $1.8 billion.
He said he calculated that taxes, payroll and other economic benefits of the plant would total $600 million over its 25-year life.
The base salary, he said, begins at $10 an hour and climbs rapidly to $25 an hour, with benefits on union jobs totaling an additional $17 an hour.