College Football INSANITY | Ohio State and Texas NIL Spending Will SHOCK You
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Menace 2 Sports with Zach Smith
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🗓️ 13 May 2026
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
🚨 College Football INSANITY 😳 | Ohio State vs Texas NIL Spending Will SHOCK You
College football has officially entered a new era — and the numbers are WILD.
The Ohio State Buckeyes football and the Texas Longhorns football are reportedly spending MASSIVE amounts in NIL — and it's changing the sport forever.
👉 How much are these programs REALLY spending?
👉 Is this sustainable?
👉 Are Ohio State and Texas buying championships?
This is the reality of modern college football — and it's only getting crazier.
🔥 In This Episode
• Breakdown of Ohio State's NIL spending
• Breakdown of Texas NIL spending
• How NIL collectives are shaping rosters
• Are these numbers real or inflated?
• Impact on recruiting and transfer portal movement
• Big Ten vs SEC power dynamics
• Which programs can keep up financially?
• What the future of college football looks like
📊 NIL Era Breakdown
Roster cost • recruiting battles • transfer portal influence • booster collectives • competitive balance
💬 Join the Debate
Is NIL ruining college football… or evolving it?
Can smaller programs even compete anymore?
Drop your thoughts in the comments — we'll feature the best takes in the next episode.
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| 0:00.0 | It is a fine hump day, menace army. I love Wednesdays. Hump day is the greatest day. And maybe other than Friday, Saturday and Sunday, but Thursday's pretty good too. I don't know. Literally a middle of the pack day. But I like hump day because it's the fifth best day of the week. It's top five. Yes, top five. And I like Mondays. Tuesdays is just kind of suck, I guess. That's where I'm mad. |
| 0:24.5 | I like Mondays. |
| 0:21.7 | Tuesdays is just kind of suck, I guess. |
| 0:24.0 | That's where I'm mad. I like Mondays because it kicks off your week. Wednesday's hump day. You're in the middle, almost to the weekend. And it's an excuse to get laid. Thursday is the appetizer for the weekend then the weekend. So yeah, I think Tuesday is the odd man out. |
| 0:35.7 | What do you think, Chris? |
| 0:36.3 | What's your least favorite day? |
| 0:37.5 | I think I firmly agree. |
| 0:39.8 | Tuesday. weekend. So yeah, I think Tuesday is the odd man out. What do you think, Chris? What's your least favorite day? I think I firmly agree. Tuesday, Tuesday feels so far away from the weekend, but also like doesn't feel like the beginning of the week. Yeah, it's like, it's like a second Monday, right? Yeah. But it's not like Monday. You feel like, all right, new week. If you're ambitious. you're like, new week. Let's get a lot of shit done. |
| 0:55.6 | Monday's, we're going to be a lot of shit done. |
| 0:57.3 | Tuesdays are, can we quit? Yeah. Kill it on Monday to set your week on the right path. And then Tuesday, you're like, fuck, Tuesday. Is that how it wasn't your coach? Didn't you guys have bloody Tuesdays on Tuesday? Oh, yeah. Toughest practice. Maybe that's what it is. |
| 1:09.1 | Kind of PTSD from those Tuesdays. |
| 1:11.0 | Were those practices tough on coaches too? |
| 1:12.9 | I just remember like you talking about like how players were fucking hitting that day. Yeah, I mean, everything sucks. Because it's also when you throw the hardest looks at them and usually don't have that much success, it's kind of a messy practice because you're trying to work through all the kinks that an |
| 1:27.7 | opposing team is going to try to throw at you. And it's, it's tough. Tuesdays are tough. And obviously |
| 1:33.7 | it's very physical as a run game oriented practice for the players, but for the coaches, it's not |
| 1:38.1 | very fun either. And it also is, you know, we had Mondays no practice. So Tuesday's your, |
| 1:43.9 | your long day where you stay after practice and watch film until 11 p.m. |
| 1:49.5 | Tuesdays are rough. |
| 1:50.7 | And then Wednesdays you go home and do recruiting calls after practice. |
| 1:53.5 | Thursday, you're free to do whatever you need to do for your job after practice. |
| 1:57.3 | So Tuesdays we're a bitch. |
| 1:58.6 | So it might be PTSD. |
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