That offer is really nothing. The girls basketball team has those type of deals. Grad school admission is basically like saying they’re letting the players have free Gatorade. That moves no needles.
So, which is it? Are we pretending to be poor or “buying a national championship,” as the punditocracy tells me we are? If the schools that have true whale alum ever step up, Ohio State will not be able to hang even if we want to, so until being big but judicious spenders and emphasizing character intangibles and development is shown to not be enough, I’m on board. If Stanford’s whales, for example, ever decide that Stanford football team is what they want to bankroll to the tune of a $100m coaching staff, and $250m roster, it will be over for everyone else, and I honestly don’t even know what conference Stanford is currently in.
We won’t know for a couple of years if this narrative of “character and intangibles “ wins the NC in 27-28. Ultimately talent wins.
OSU like Stanford has big money alum. But those alum just do not prioritize sports. Its been said for a while. Its their money, and If they rather their millions go to cancer research, arts, dance, etc then there's nothing a football fan can say. It just sucks for football fans when you watch an alum from Texas Tech decide to throw billions at their program just for the hell of it. But like @Jaxbuck said, OSU isn't by any means poor. And there are enough donors that really want the football team to win that enough money can be raised to match some of the outrageous amounts being offered if they wanted. There are luxury car dealerships to match Texas', OSU could match more of these offers. But it seems like once they get to their number, they back off. And then team B comes from the top rope with a triple offer. But then OSU has no problem offering 7 figures to guys who prove it on their own roster which i could see happening for guys like McClain, Hartford, Aaron Scott, James Peoples, etc
