In the pantheon of easy targets, there is the 45th president every time he opens his yap, Charles Barkley's derriere and alluding to the Yankees' payroll every time they lose. Too easy. It's not even low-hanging fruit. It's low hanging cannolis.

And so the prattle was predictable Wednesday in the wake of some fiscal news from State U. The Associated Press reported that UConn agreed to pay just under $250,000 to seven women — including four members of the women's basketball coaching staff — after the U.S. Labor Department found they had been underpaid when compared with men in similar positions.

UConn identified the employees as women's associate head basketball coach Chris Dailey, assistant coaches (in 2014) Shea Ralph and Marisa Moseley, director of women's basketball operations Sarah Darras and the director of football operations Sarah Lawless.

According to the report, "Dailey had received just under $313,000 in salary and fringe benefits from the school during the fiscal year that ended in June 2014, according to the state. Ralph received just over $272,000 and Moseley was paid just over $200,600."

Cue the moral outrage.

"Golly, I wish I was THAT underpaid!"

"Three bills a year for coaching basketball?! Where are our priorities?"

And on the band plays, fortifying all the feedback loops and echo chambers of self-righteous rage — and isn't that all the rage now?

I guess this is where my reckless, feckless idealism gets in the way. Because I root for everybody. Make all the money you can, baby. It's called capitalism. As one pundit once noted, "money's money and there was only one Mother Theresa."

Besides, if somebody's willing to pay you 313K to coach basketball, who out there besides perhaps the Dalai Lama would decline? I mean, if they want to pay me $313K to write this drivel four days a week, I'd break into several choruses of Handel's Hallelujah Chorus.

Put it this way: There's a reason Nick Saban makes just under the Gross National Product of Argentina to coach football. Because he can. Because someone is willing to pay it. And because he wins a lot and brings joy to millions of Alabamans. Lest we forget that selected predecessors Mike Shula and Mike DuBose weren't so successful.

This is why Jimmy Dugan gets quoted a lot. "If it wasn't hard," he said in "A League Of Their Own," "everyone would do it."

We may think that Dailey, for example, shows up on game nights nattily attired, sips Diet Coke and protects Geno Auriemma from technical fouls. She's also been at this for 30 years, helped build the program from rubble, knows as much about post play as anyone else in the profession and has helped bring joy to millions of us Nutmeggers in many March Madnesses past. Translation: damn good at what she does.

She's also stands for all the right things. One of my favorite CD stories: A crowd of reporters stood around Stefanie Dolson during an off-day in the NCAA Tournament a few years back. Dailey walked in and saw Dolson was answering questions while seated at her locker. Dailey interrupted, told Dolson to stand immediately and gave her an impromptu lecture about showing proper respect to people who think what you have to say is important.

I haven't even mentioned the others yet. Let me just say that Darras, who lives in Quaker Hill, is the heartbeat of the women's basketball office. She tends to all the little details that would normally force the rest of us to start gulping Maker's Mark. The idea that she's being paid what she's worth — or at least more than she was — is a victory for everybody else out there whose often anonymous effort makes all the difference.

Then there's this: Giving the aforementioned women what they are worth — comparatively, anyway — is a victory for women everywhere. Even those of lower pay grades. The Labor Department, per the AP story, said it found significant pay disparities remained 'even when legitimate factors affecting pay were taken into account.'"

Kudos to UConn for recognizing this and making it right. Not everybody can do the jobs — and certainly not as well — as the aforementioned women do theirs. They deserve every dime. As do we all.

This is the opinion of Day sports columnist Mike DiMauro