Maybe. I think it depends on just how far—and fast—it grows. Does it keep growing exponentially (it wasn’t too long ago Saban alluded to Bryce Young already having close to $1 million, and everybody lost their minds. Now we are hearing numbers like 8, 9.5, and 11 less than 2 years later)? Does it start to plateau soon and stay relatively close to where it is/]will be in a year or 2? Or does it course correct and drop back down to more reasonable figures due to some sort of legislation allowing for more regulation or simply big money boosters getting tired of dropping all those millions annually on kids and still not winning NCs.

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Look at what we've spent on facilities, coaches, and buyouts compared to other major programs.

Exactly. We have fired the 4 highest paid coaches on campus and all their staffs (and Bo Pelini a year prior) and bought them out, and then went out and paid WAY over market price for regular coaches and staffs and landed elite ones and paid them accordingly. I’m sure they were excited to do so, to get new blood in and start aiming for excellence in all sports again. Same with renovations.

BUT(and I’ll address more of your points in another post as I submitted prematurely), going back to the same folks hat-n-hand, at some point, is gonna naturally frustrate them knowing that most of that buyout money was fixing Woodward’s contract frick ups. And it’s one thing to throw some cash for great, professional coaches that will inevitably bring winning. And donating to the upgrading of facilities that they themselves might have the opportunity to enjoy, or that can be used to entice multiple players over multiple years to come to LSU to take advantage of would probably be cool too. But stroking a million+ dollar check for a single 17-year-old high schooler? Once, maybe. But the new norm? I’m not sure.

This post was edited on 7/1/22 at 12:27 pm