https://www.espn.com/college-footba...tball-20-million-offseason-michigan-motivated
"Only two years ago, Day told boosters it would cost $13 million in NIL money for the Buckeyes to put their team together...
One NFL scout called this the most talented team he has ever evaluated at Ohio State, with more depth than the 2021 national champion Georgia team that set a draft record with 15 players selected in 2022."
$20 million payroll this year. Good luck beating that roster with good old fashioned off-season "hard work". Plus, over the course of a season and multiple playoff games, that depth will eventually swallow you up, even if you do manage to beat them in the regular season.
On one hand, $20 million is a bargain. The Cowboys WR just got paid $130 million for four years; that's just one guy on the team. The amount of money the school will make off of a national championship will dwarf that number.
On the other hand, this is just the beginning unless some sort of salary cap gets put in place. Like a compulsive gambler, if OSU wins, they will pay more next year for the chance to repeat; if OSU looses, sunk cost fallacy kicks in and they will pay even more next year to chase it.
Amateurism died decades ago in this sport, but now I have to wonder if OSU becomes the poster child for all that is wrong with college football, and college athletics in general. Miami held that mantle for awhile, and slowly they faded into irrelevancy for decades. If just one of those guys runs afoul of the law with those flashy cars, guns, drugs, hookers, gangs, etc. with those NIL dollars, that program is going to have a big perception problem on its hands. Now, if they can keep it clean or hidden just enough and they manage to win it all, do they then become the trailblazers who get to rewrite their own history as the victors and the vanquished have to "become like them" in order to compete? Time will tell.
"Only two years ago, Day told boosters it would cost $13 million in NIL money for the Buckeyes to put their team together...
One NFL scout called this the most talented team he has ever evaluated at Ohio State, with more depth than the 2021 national champion Georgia team that set a draft record with 15 players selected in 2022."
$20 million payroll this year. Good luck beating that roster with good old fashioned off-season "hard work". Plus, over the course of a season and multiple playoff games, that depth will eventually swallow you up, even if you do manage to beat them in the regular season.
On one hand, $20 million is a bargain. The Cowboys WR just got paid $130 million for four years; that's just one guy on the team. The amount of money the school will make off of a national championship will dwarf that number.
On the other hand, this is just the beginning unless some sort of salary cap gets put in place. Like a compulsive gambler, if OSU wins, they will pay more next year for the chance to repeat; if OSU looses, sunk cost fallacy kicks in and they will pay even more next year to chase it.
Amateurism died decades ago in this sport, but now I have to wonder if OSU becomes the poster child for all that is wrong with college football, and college athletics in general. Miami held that mantle for awhile, and slowly they faded into irrelevancy for decades. If just one of those guys runs afoul of the law with those flashy cars, guns, drugs, hookers, gangs, etc. with those NIL dollars, that program is going to have a big perception problem on its hands. Now, if they can keep it clean or hidden just enough and they manage to win it all, do they then become the trailblazers who get to rewrite their own history as the victors and the vanquished have to "become like them" in order to compete? Time will tell.
