With the "NIL" spending amounts potentially getting fixed with the House settlement, does it make more sense or is it easier to get a championship basketball team vs. football? For example, with 12 million or so, you can get a VERY good basketball team - fewer players, but I'm not sure what the return is to the school through the NCAA tournament. Football is obviously more desirable to most fans but 22 million doesn't go quite as far and is certainly less of a sure thing. Thoughts?
Basically yes that is the point. Would be more of an ROI to get 6 or 7 Cooper Flaggs than it would be to get 15 or 16 first round NFL draft picks like Ohio State Texas and Georgia had?
Personally, I just don't see us competing in pure athletic horsepower with the notables and the wannabe's. Napier needs to get his version of Golden up and running smoothly and THEN we can get something accomplished in football. Methinks about the best we can hope for is the 2024 Notre Dame team, who had a sort of puncher's chance to win the NC. But not really a good chance, unless Lagway becomes a truly transcendent player. We shall see.
The problem with this line of thinking is its easier for other schools to do the same. Smaller schools like Duke, St Johns, UConn, etc. can compete with basketball NIL but don't have the heft to compete in football. It's why Denzel Aberdeen, a backup guard who has never started, is reportedly getting more NIL money next year than Nico despite being a big name QB.
