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2026-27 Ohio State Men's Basketball

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DZ83CK said:
NIL is based on wealthy donors contributing to the program. Duke has a ton of NBA guys, so does Kentucky, UNC, Kansas. OSU doesn't have that many former NBA guys to kick in to NIL. Some other programs might not have a rich history of pros, but they might have other rich donors instead who have fortunes from big oil or big tech. OSU has Les Wexner, who apparently has no interest in contributing to NIL, and no other billionaire donors. Most college athletic departments don't make money, and even OSU's profits are limited, we're talking $5M to $20M profit per year, and it's variable. Ideally the athletic department would cut down on costs and find a way to invest more in NIL, but that's not what higher education does, everything always gets bigger and more expensive. So they have to rely on wealthy donors, who aren't all that plentiful.
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I know "but look at Michigan" is a fun go to but scUM has been able to do it because they've pretty much currently waived the white flag and accepted that their football team is mostly ceiling capped at 9-3 type seasons and not being a serious threat for titles at all and have instead just thrown the sink at hoops now.
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"We Choose to Go To The Moon!"

Zurp
calibuck said:
Well, if Zurp is correct, then that explains all the scifi novels where the earth is protected by a really old space fleet. Being housed in the hollow moon and all, when the older species come a'calling, we just launch and destroy those guys. Easy peasy. Actually, believe it's good that we spend some money on space exploration, and not throwing missles at each other.....
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If you believe Neil deGrasse Tyson, what we've spent, historically, on space exploration, is a drop in the bucket compared to our federal budget. Something like... if you take a dollar bill and cut it at the percentage of our budget for space exploration, you aren't even cutting into the ink on the paper - you're just shaving a tiny strip off the edge. By the way, I never fact-checked him, so believe it if you want to. Or don't.
Either way, I agree with you - more money should go to things like this, rather than a bunch of the other things we're doing.
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