Cost of making the Sweet 16

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fan2011

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According to the Athletic, here are the NIL budgets of all the teams in the sweet 16 this year, even VCU and SLU would need to double their NIL budgets to compete:


Duke $25.247M
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Illinois $18.970M
UConn $18.906M
Michigan State $17.106M
St. John's $16.650M
Arizona $16.317M
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Michigan $15.739M
Alabama $15.327M
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Texas $15.116M
Arkansas $15.025M
Tennessee $14.123M
Purdue $12.906M
Houston $12.552M
Nebraska $12.206M
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Iowa $11.425M
Iowa State $9.808M
 
What is the point this is trying to prove? No one is questioning that more money can help programs but fact of the matter is a lot those programs have fantastic coaches and great basketball history . So a lot of money + great basketball history + great coaching = success.

Houston has the smallest of the NIL and they were national finalist last year, made the final four a few years ago, and a good shot at making it again. Kentucky had an NIL budget of $22 million and lost in the 2nd round after needing a miracle shot to go into OT against a Santa Clara team with $2 million NIL budget.

Our team severely underperformed even with a $2 million budget and I don’t think giving our coach who is probably going to keep doing things the same way with the same staff, is going to do anything significantly better.
 
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