? 2027 ? Whittingham sees the three most important things to compete nowadays, and in order of importance:

No. 1: NIL resources, which leads to; No. 2: great players; and No. 3: a competent coaching staff.

College Football Fans Disturbed By Talk Of $50 Million Rosters - The Spun

Coach W is spot on! It will take money, truck loads of money.

Then with that money you need to spend it on great talent that improves and compliments your roster.

Then coaching, great coaching.........

First to evaluate and acquire that great talent. And the chops to coach up that talent thru the long game and on game day.

But Coach W speaks from a lifetime of coaching experience.

As a fan, I would ask how can the NCAA or any governing body place restrictions on the NIL market value of any player. Plus, the better a player performs each season then the higher the NIL value.

The players are not employees, they are student athletes. They are paid thru NIL Collectives based on their market values.

Any form of salary cap on a school would restrict what a player could be paid. I am confident a quality lawyer or even an ambulance chaser could find potential damages in this scenario.

Schools will need to be committed to budgeting out the frivolous expenditures and investing in their athletics.

Just a few mindless thoughts.

Just like everything in life money will ruin things for most people in life. College football is now Fortune 500. Where does it stop?