Did they spend $50 million this year? No, so I’m not sure why we’re bringing up this season as some counter
The point is, uncapped player compensation will cause a stratification of even the blue bloods. And on the wrong end of that will be blue bloods that previously enjoyed location and history moats, as much as they used illicit (capped) compensation
It’s early, too early to think this year is anything more than just the beginning. And yet we’re already seeing starters from Bama transfer to OSU and power shifting out of the SEC
Let’s not be pedantic about the number. $50 million next year is just a placeholder for whatever number that would get the attention of schools that don’t have the wealth potential of OSU, but were previously peers