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Oh,that all? what about these poor little fellas

Michigan just doesn't have the 'crootin base to be a natty contender year in year out. 

I have no idea if the Dawgs have major NIL monies.  It's probably at least decent.  They have upgraded facilities a lot over the past decade (the stadium is the same size, but improvements on collateral items).

They have more than most, I'm lead to believe.

According to Aaron Murray, Carson Beck's NIL is over a mil for this season, and there's talk of bumping him to 2 mil if he'll agree to come back next year.  

What happens if some billionaire steps in in a big way and promises $30 million a player?

That billionaire probably gets very little ROI and hopefully is willing to urinate a bunch of $ down the drain in return for hopefully a few wins.  

In our case, I wouldn't know, because to my knowledge LSU has no billionaire donors.  Even our multi-millionaire crowd is small and meager compared to the Texas' of the world.  

The expected ROI would be winning NCs.  Imagine I was a multibillionaire and dumped a billion into the UGA program and they started winning NCs ... year after year.

I probably wouldn't be buying tickets on StubHub.

You could have an NFL level team.  Five years for each player.

I think the expectation for any team in the top 20 would be to compete for the MNC.  And there is a big difference between competing for a MNC and not competing.  

9 wins per year = not competing for the MNC.
10/11 wins per year = competing for the MNC.  The gap may not seem it, but it's huge.  Even if you can win 9 games every year, you're not competing for the MNC.  Even really winning 10 you don't compete for it, but you're on the bubble for competing. Look at almost every successful coach out there, once they start regularly winning 9/10 games they're on the verge of competing for the MNC.  Hit a ceiling at 9 or under, you're out even if you're Bama or Texas or OU.  

In Jimbo's case, he never even plateaued at 9 wins.  Therein lies the problem.  We can do 7/8 or less wins with almost any coach as could Bama or Texas.  Hell, we could hire Les Miles and hit 9 wins.  

The Boosters of Substance must have realized they took on a hell of a gamble locking in all that money, and I have to assume they knew full well they could have to pay up if he didn't perform.  So even though it's unfathomable to us, I guess they have that kind of spare change.  

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