$$$ win championships
- Thread starter Ranchdawg
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More than money. A good coach, a good fan following, it all adds up. If it was all money Ole Miss and SMU would have been playing last night.
I’m pretty sure OSU spent more than them both.
Unfortunately we'll never know because all these NIL and collective numbers are bogus at best. But generally, programs like Ohio State can spend less money, because they offer more in other ways.
Maybe they got desperate after Michigan though, and it's true.........who knows.
Ole Miss does not come close to the other schools mentioned for $$$.
I think in this context, the OP was speaking in terms of money directly spent on NIL. And I do believe they were right there with everybody else.
Texas had the talent to beat Ohio State. They just have an idiot calling offensive plays. Lost some of his brain cells during his drunk days. Some of his play calls are baffling.
Agree, Sark is not what so many think he is. He's solid and competent, but not great.
Ohio State likely doubled Ole Miss's NIL spending. There are 66,000 students at Ohio State. It's bigger than most cities in MS. That school has tons of wealthy alumni. They aren't begging Bubba's Gun and Pawn to help out a kicker.
Dadgum. You maybe on to something. Email Salmon and let him know.
Ohio State was said to have spent more than $20 million on their roster. That dwarfs whatever OM was said to have spent.
The problem that OM will have with NIL is they paid their full amount from the jump. Think of it like an auction...these other schools with more money were setting the price of certain players. OM comes in and yells out the high number at the start of the auction and wins a few players at the start of the auction. The problem is that the other teams will now name higher price tags for said players going forward, and OM having already set the price at their max, will not be able to keep up in the long run.
Not to mention, om can't do what they did this year moving forward. They missed their opportunity and it's gone, and they know it.
And this is why I think Lemonis said State baseball doesn't offer as much in nil. To keep the bidding low.
What happens with Texas? I will tell you. People in Dallas make one call, people in Houston make another call, and then people in Austin make yet another call so that everybody is confused by the time the quarterback gets up to a lot of scrimmage.
Ole Miss is “Mississippi Rich”. Ohio State is actually rich.
Ohio State is like Prince. See, Ole Miss is more like Trey Songz.
I get that but not everybody is willing, or dumb enough, to mortgage everything on NIL on a football team. I tend to think that at Ohio State, you have more wealthy guys giving some play money, while at Ole Miss they have everyone drafting out big amounts per month.
I just wish we knew real numbers. Kind of pointless until we do.
Not to mention those Big 10 schools have 5x the alumni base that we do.
