It looks like 13th in the SEC and 26th nationally.
If this year goes well, I imagine you'll see all our chips pushed to the middle for '27.
Maybe not all, but certainly more.
Budget and Roster Cost really shouldn’t be used interchangeably. Our retention probably cost a lot less than most school bc of what we had returning. OM probably has $10-$12 in about 4 returning guys.
Not saying we can have a $50 mill roster but we can pay more when we need to.
Exactly
The point in The Athletic article about the more money spent, the higher the probability of making the CFP is interesting.
State is at around the 15 percent chance mark, but really we’re closer to and maybe slightly lower than 10 percent because we’re 13th in spending in the conference.
How many people are comfortable stepping up to increase contributions by eventually (I say that knowing that fundraising is tough and bake sale approaches are not the answer) twice as much knowing that given our schedule, that means there would still be much less than a 50 percent chance (let’s call it 33 percent because other universities will add more too) to make the CFP?
Is that a good ROI?
EDIT to add: And how many times will people add money before flinching when the 67 percent chance of failure comes into play multiple times? We all know it’s probable.
