re: I'm not buying the "we can't compete with NIL". Many schools with average NIL are winning.

LSU has money, but doesn’t have the money to blindly toss an extra $750k-$1m at players. They have to be smart on where to commit the money. There aren’t many programs that can. Underwood is an outlier because his deal was solely funded by Ellison.

I expect LSU to bring in 1-2 big players in the portal that weren’t outcasts from their previous team.