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Solid Orange [1301]
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Buying a team Ohio State
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Nov 16, 2025, 7:34 AM
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The reported cost for the Ohio State football roster is $35 million for the 2025 season, a significant increase from the $20 million spent in 2024. These figures represent the total amount of Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) money provided to the players through university-affiliated collectives and outside groups. This increase reflects the rising costs in college football driven by the new NIL landscape and a combination of revenue-sharing and external NIL deals.
2025 Season: Around $35 million was reportedly spent.
2024 Season: The roster cost was approximately $20
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Clemson Icon [24725]
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Big money controls Minor League University Professional Sports
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Nov 16, 2025, 7:42 AM
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The Big Dollar teams will win. The rest will eventually fall to the side.
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Solid Orange [1301]
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Re: Big money controls Minor League University Professional Sports
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Nov 16, 2025, 7:50 AM
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If it is gonna be minor league NFL let them fund a league and have college ball go back to what it was supposed to be I say.
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Rival Killer [2978]
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I wish but college presidents want that cash too from TV revenue***
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Nov 16, 2025, 7:54 AM
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Clemson Sports Icon [54041]
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Paw Master [16159]
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Re: We are a big dollar team. Why aren't we winning?***
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Nov 17, 2025, 11:32 AM
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We are not! We are maybe in top 20-25 but we dont have the money of most SEC, half the BIG10, and even Big12 like Tex Tech, Houston, TCU all have more money than us. Heck even schools like Stanford, Miami, SMU have more money than we do. We are not big fish, we are medium fish in a bigger pond. We wont win bidding wars.
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Gridiron Giant [15601]
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Rival Killer [2978]
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Thats why Clemson has to maximize every NIL/rev share dollar
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Nov 16, 2025, 7:46 AM
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You cannot waste money on players that will never contribute and let them take up space & resources for 4 years. At least if you want to compete.
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Hall of Famer [8493]
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Re: Thats why Clemson has to maximize every NIL/rev share dollar
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Nov 16, 2025, 9:54 AM
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Agree. In this environment, you have to frontload your money to top hs grads and run them off if they don't perform. It's a business. NFL Lite.
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Gridiron Giant [15813]
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Re: Thats why Clemson has to maximize every NIL/rev share dollar
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Nov 17, 2025, 8:01 AM
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backwards, reward loyalty
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Hall of Famer [8323]
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Re: Buying a team Ohio State
Nov 16, 2025, 10:48 AM
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Are you saying the $35 M is on top of revenue sharing?
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Paw Warrior [4917]
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Re: Buying a team Ohio State
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Nov 16, 2025, 10:56 AM
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The pointless byzantine rules about colleges paying players makes it unlikely we are going to get an accurate picture of what programs are spending. Too much money laundering is still happening to avoid regulatory barriers. $35 million sounds low to me.
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Paw Master [16159]
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Re: Buying a team Ohio State
Nov 17, 2025, 12:26 PM
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That would be my guess since they spent almost $23mil last yr on NIL.
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National Champion [7116]
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Re: Buying a team Ohio State
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Nov 16, 2025, 12:19 PM
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I think the real question is $35 million plus $20 million worth back to back titles? Can you keep shelling it out? Would we pay $55 million from our donors to get two shots at a title? I would think eventually people’s taste would run out. I think that’s why the BIG is looking for private equity ownership.
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Re: Buying a team Ohio State
Nov 16, 2025, 1:43 PM
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“A college football national championship is worth tens of millions of dollars to a school through direct payouts and a significant, multi-million dollar boost to its revenue. For the host community, the value can be a direct economic impact of over \(\$150\) million from increased spending on travel, lodging, food, and entertainment associated with the championship game itself”
And, there is ongoing revenue boost in future merchandising and branding opportunities.
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Playmaker [381]
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Re: Buying a team Ohio State
Nov 16, 2025, 1:02 PM
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What is the appropriate amount a team should spend on NIL? $5m, 10m, 20m? And how accurate are these reports? Are they just guesses?
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Tiger Spirit [9407]
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The appropriate amount is 0. This whole thing is bleeping stupid.***
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Nov 17, 2025, 7:58 AM
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Clemson Sports Icon [54041]
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NIL deals are not public, so these numbers are guesses.
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Nov 17, 2025, 11:19 AM
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As for what is appropriate, most people seem to use the following guidelines:
-If a school spends more than ours does, they are "buying a team" or "cheating" and have reportedly lost their way, as they are all about winning and do not care about educating young people.
-If a school spends less than our does, they don't care enough about football and just don't understand what it means to be a football school.
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Playmaker [381]
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Re: NIL deals are not public, so these numbers are guesses.
Nov 17, 2025, 1:17 PM
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Thank you for clarifying. It makes sense if you think about it.
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Paw Warrior [4741]
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Re: Buying a team Ohio State
Nov 17, 2025, 11:40 AM
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What is the appropriate amount a team should spend on NIL? $5m, 10m, 20m? And how accurate are these reports? Are they just guesses?
I did some google searching on this $35M figure (and about $40M for Texas). The written information is from June thru August so not really looking back at what transpired, rather intel surfacing as the deals were being negotiated. Articles admit it’s speculation since collectives aren’t forced to report data. I believe some data is collected by Opendorse via reporting from sources like player’s agents. The other thing that isn’t clear is the amount contributed by rev share. What is known is these ‘25 rosters were front loaded to avoid House settlement oversight but most assume $15 to 18M was likely rev share. One article points out with rev share part of the deals, the OhioSt collective cash was likely about $2M above what they supported for the ‘24 roster. That would make sense in terms of who they were already solidly sourcing NIL booster support.
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Paw Warrior [4741]
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Re: Buying a team Ohio State
Nov 17, 2025, 11:50 AM
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What is the appropriate amount a team should spend on NIL? $5m, 10m, 20m? And how accurate are these reports? Are they just guesses? I did some google searching on this $35M figure (and about $40M for Texas). The written information is from June thru August so not really looking back at what transpired, rather intel surfacing as the deals were being negotiated. Articles admit it’s speculation since collectives aren’t forced to report data. I believe some data is collected by Opendorse via reporting from sources like player’s agents. The other thing that isn’t clear is the amount contributed by rev share. What is known is these ‘25 rosters were front loaded to avoid House settlement oversight but most assume $15 to 18M was likely rev share. One article points out with rev share part of the deals, the OhioSt collective cash was likely about $2M above what they supported for the ‘24 roster. That would make sense in terms of who they were already solidly sourcing NIL booster support.
One thing I forgot to mention. For OhioSt, as you can imagine, the focus was on roster retention. That supports the idea that rev share was part of the $35M as the program’s GM can work directly with a known allocation. Then NIL collective cash can be brought in to take care of critical positions and big name transfer portal acquisitions or 5 star HS recruits. Much easier to go back to your boosters with a request for x amount more to acquire a specific player than to generically ask for $20M to “put together a great roster this season”. Remember this roster spend strategy has to be repeated year after year so best to be able to sell why a couple million more is needed.
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110%er [3993]
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Re: Buying a team Ohio State
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Nov 16, 2025, 1:05 PM
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Exactly why football is becoming meaningless. Crazy what people will pay to watch kids play football .
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CU Medallion [19053]
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Re: Buying a team Ohio State
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Nov 16, 2025, 1:07 PM
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Gotta get the #### out of the low paying ACC. More urgent than ever.
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Orange Beast [6409]
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Re: Buying a team Ohio State
Nov 16, 2025, 1:15 PM
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Yep growl…. no need to sit here and whine about it. It’s not changing. Play the game.
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110%er [3732]
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Re: Buying a team Ohio State
Nov 17, 2025, 11:48 AM
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Gotta get the #### out of the low paying ACC. More urgent than ever.
I am not sure another conference will make it better for Clemson. How is it working for Northwestern, Ucla, Usc, Mississippi St., Florida, Kentucky, and the list goes on. The richer teams will get all the players. If had a son that was a 5 star player my first call would be to Ohio St. He might not go there but I would get their offer upfront and then auction off to the rest of the teams.
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Game Day Hero [4192]
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There you go - that has been the number I have been posting
Nov 16, 2025, 1:36 PM
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Can you provide your reference?
How did they get the information to compile that number?
Is the information publicly available?
How reliable are the numbers?
It would be nice to see these numbers for the Top 20 teams.
I believe that the present financial model has THOROUGHLY corrupted the pro-college game.
I also do not believe any of this can be undone, no matter how hard the NCAA (hey, that’s funny, I said NCAA) tries.
The pro-college game is now a money game where only the rich survive. That will be about 10 teams nationwide. There will be upsets of those 10 teams by the “scrimmage teams” (the “poor”), but there will be little doubt that the “rich” teams will always have the far superior talent to constantly win the championship.
The “scrimmage teams” will be just that, practice fodder for the “rich” to prepare for the playoffs.
Hey, it was fun while it lasted.
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Re: Buying a team Ohio State
Nov 16, 2025, 1:44 PM
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That's pretty reasonable actually. That's the cost of one QB in the NFL.
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Associate AD [1068]
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Nov 17, 2025, 7:13 AM
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I am a College Football fan. I have only watched them play a half of football this year. They may win it all again this year and I will watch them play in the playoffs. I think it is odd though that none of their games have been compelling enough for me to flip over from another game to watch them play.
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National Champion [7259]
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These things cost money.
Nov 17, 2025, 7:17 AM
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Clemson Icon [25427]
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Re: Buying a team Ohio State
Nov 17, 2025, 10:57 AM
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Unfortunately, this was my biggest concern when NIL was passed. I felt like it would be the outside force that could cause Clemson to fall from being elite status. I was and I am still not sure how our future will play out. It how far are Clemson fans willing to go ???
But I want to ask one honest Question. If Dabo left Clemson do you think another Head Coach could do any better if given the same resources that Dabo has ???
I personally don’t think much would change. If you want Clemson to climb back into being a contender most every year then you need to hire a Head Coach that is willing to sale his soul, get down in the sewer like UGA’s Kirby Smart, OSU’s Ryan Day and most of the SEC coaches are willing to do for a win or a National Championship.
Some of the Big 10 and Big 12 coaches reside in the same sewer. Participating in dirty recruiting, always dancing with the devil and blocking below the waist doing anything it takes to Win !
Is this what Clemson fans really want or are fans willing to give Dabo time to see if his culture will be successful in this new era of play for pay college athletics.
I think we only have 2 roads to take the high road or the low road. How much of what so many have contributed to make Clemson the Special Place it is for Wins and Championships ??? How dirty are Clemson Alumni and fans willing to get ??? How much money are you willing to give ???
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Orange Phenom [14959]
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I dont know what resources Dabo has but
Nov 17, 2025, 11:55 AM
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there are other coaches that are certainly doing a better job than we have at schools that traditionally are not as good at football as Clemson. And im not just talking about oil money schools like TTU and SMU.
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Rival Killer [2600]
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Re: Buying a team Ohio State
Nov 17, 2025, 12:07 PM
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Wow. That is a sizable one year increase. I’m guessing that number is made up of revenue sharing and additional NIL funding. I wonder what our capability is.
We don’t have to match that, but hopefully we can be close. There are lots of talented players, but evaluating talent will be more important than ever (and of course talent development).
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Paw Warrior [4741]
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Re: Buying a team Ohio State
Nov 17, 2025, 12:35 PM
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Wow. That is a sizable one year increase. I’m guessing that number is made up of revenue sharing and additional NIL funding. I wonder what our capability is.
We don’t have to match that, but hopefully we can be close. There are lots of talented players, but evaluating talent will be more important than ever (and of course talent development).
A couple weeks back the WCCP guys were discussing what they are hearing about the ‘26 roster funding. They said $25M is what they believe is available between rev share and outside NIL. Not where 5 or 6 other programs are spending but it can be competitive with rest of the perennial top 15 programs. The most important thing is talent evaluation. There is good results from the level of spend and bad results. Clemson spent about $20M to field a .500 team this year, ☹️. The other thing they can control is better coaching and S&C. In theory they can get that done without a cap on funding if boosters, media revenue, and other revenue sources are leveraged.
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Commissioner [1206]
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Re: Buying a team Ohio State
Nov 17, 2025, 12:19 PM
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Ohio State has beaten one ranked team all year long by a touchdown
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Tiger Spirit [9920]
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Re: Buying a team Ohio State
Nov 17, 2025, 12:31 PM
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Reported by who? And how?
None of these details are public info. The numbers are pure speculation. They are also useless unless we have (a) confirmation of accuracy and (b) comparison to other schools.
It is also unclear if your $35M number includes or excluded the $20M revenue share.
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Paw Warrior [4838]
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Welcome to the new NIL world - rich alumni
Nov 17, 2025, 2:24 PM
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and who cares if the kid ever gets a degree
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