Bill Landis

It's not struggling to put together its roster financially.

It has one of the more expensive rosters in the sport, at least it will this year.

But there's enough conversation about its ability to be competitive in that area, much of it driven by the outside NIL stuff that has nothing to do with athletic revenue.

that Ohio State is showing the world here like, hey, by the way, we have plenty of athletic revenue, and if ever the world were to come where we can give as much of that as we want to our players, watch out.

But at the moment, we can only give as much of it as we want to our coaches, so we're going to pay them $15 million.

That's already spent.

That's gone.

That's no matter what.

Yeah.

Yeah, I don't think you could apply the underdog tag to Ohio State.

Now, they might encounter a game where they are the betting underdog as an entity.

They have just about everything you would want if you're trying to compete for championships and they're the envy of...

97% of the sport, probably.

Maybe even more than that.

Yeah, I guess in that way, this puts a little bit of... There's always kind of been a bullseye on Ohio State, but I think maybe more of one now.

It certainly, in my opinion, eliminates a lot of the excuses.

You're not out-resourced in any regard in a time where college football is kind of all about resources.

You are saying to the world...

We have the goods.

We have it better than anybody if we're going to spend this amount of money.